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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... cut to the cash rate. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released international trade in goods and services data for August. The Australian Industry Group and the Commonwealth Bank release their joint Australian Performance ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... second quarter real GDP growth was revised lower to an annualised rate of 1.3% from the previous estimate of 1.7% and durable goods orders (a leading indicator of business investment) dropped by a much greater than expected 13.2% in August. Then again ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from consumer electronics to household goods and is ranked in the top 20,000 websites worldwide despite launching in Southeast Asia just this year. "We feel very honoured ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABC) is due to release the June quarter international trade in goods and services figures, while the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association performance of construction index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... nominated former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and former US secretary of labour Elaine Chao to its board. Second-hand goods dealer and loan provider Cash Converters firmed 0.5 cents to 79 cents after it said it had opened a franchised store in Dubai. ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... time when "we believed we could fly, we believed we could touch the sky." Business investment too - as measured by durable goods orders - is growing at near the average annual growth rates it did back then - 5.9% in the first six months of 2012 versus ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... what my uni profs taught me in Economics 101. Currencies of the strong ones appreciate increasing the demand for cheapened goods and services from weak nations. This, in turn, slows economic activity (and inflation) in the strong country and helps strengthen ...

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... proportion of their income on lifestyle products that have benefited from the rising Australian dollar, such as electronic goods and overseas travel, noting that prices in these expenditure segments fell this quarter.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June figures for retail trade and international trade in goods and services. In equities news, Thursday is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's proposed deadline for News ...