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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on a positive lead from from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0714 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 23 points at 5,331. On the economic front today, the latest consumer ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
The economic impact of the Federal Government's baby bonus as well as improved employment conditions in Australia have helped improved the national birth rate, according to the latest data from the ABS. The national birth rate is the highest since 1995 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Insight into the CPI data of Wednesday this week arrived today with the publication by the ABS of producer price data. Final stage of production prices increased by 1 per cent over the quarter and 4 per cent compared to this time last year largely as ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... particularly strong at noon. "People are running for a little bit more cover to the banks and that's not a bad indication that the CPI (consumer price index) figures later this week might put pressure on the Reserve Bank to lift interest rates," Mr Klusman ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
The US release of key retail sales data for September showed that while there was a 0.4 per cent fall in sales most of this was due to the 9.3 per cent reduction in petrol station sales due to falling fuel costs since July. Consequently, excluding fuel ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
The possibility of an interest rate rise at the next meeting of the RBA increased last night when the governor, Dr Glenn Stevens, mentioned that the September quarter CPI figure due on 25 October would be a linch pin in the decision. Dr Stevens said ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
The Australian stock market remained weaker today on the back of a drop on US markets, with banks and resource stocks down on yesterday's trading. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.7 points to 5158.1 and the all ordinaries fell ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided not to lift interest rates following its monthly board meeting yesterday. This comes as some relief to the market and mortgagees after last month's 0.25 per cent increase to 6 per cent, the second since ...

Pimco plans absolute return fixed interest fund

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
Pimco Australia has announced it is working on a new absolute return fixed interest fund, the Pimco Absolute Return Series (PARS), which will use leverage to let investors dial up their exposures. Speaking at the Portfolio Construction Conference on ...