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RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The Reserve Bank has again kept the cash rate unchanged, and is likely to do so for some time yet. The cash rate has now been at a record low of 2.5 per cent for 12 months. In a statement accompanying the RBA's August rate decision, governor Glenn Stevens ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The local sharemarket has opened flat ahead of the Reserve Bank's interest rate announcement and the full swing of earnings season. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP predict the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on Tuesday. But ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

ANU enlists CAER for ESG research

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Investment Office of the Australian National University (ANU) has enlisted the services of research group CAER to research and rate the companies in which invests according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The announcement ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international bourses extended their declines with investors still concerned over conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and Argentina's debt default. At 0802 AEST on Monday, the September share ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
"We think it's a significant package... Are we finished? The answer is no." "The Governing Council decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." ...

Default pensions 'very logical' solution: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
A MySuper-style default retirement product could be "a very logical" way to encourage retirees to take income streams rather than lump sums, according to Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden. Brogden's comments came in response ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...

AFA unveils main principles of code of conduct

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will prioritise the completion of the organisation's code of conduct after revealing the foundation principles of the document this morning at a roadshow in Sydney. The AFA expected to complete the code of ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...