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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... vital to a strong, sustained economic recovery because their spending accounts for more than two-thirds of all economic activity. The confidence numbers came as investors were already rethinking the more optimistic assessment they had of the economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... Management tenders $500 million of April 2020 bonds. Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release indices of economic activity for December. In company news, Westfield Group, Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd and AXA Asia-Pacific Holdings Ltd release full year results. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... fell after the statement as investors withdrew money from safe haven holdings. The Fed said it believes that "economic activity has continued to strengthen" since its last meeting in December. However, the Fed did not repeat its assertion that the housing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index for the December quarter. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Indices of Economic Activity for November are published. In company news, Woolworths Ltd will release second quarter sales results, and GUD Holdings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Battellino addresses the 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of economic activity report for October and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations vacancy report for December were also due ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... away early. So heeeeeere's Benny setting the record straight. "Though we have begun to see some improvement in economic activity, we still have some way to go before we can be assured that the recovery will be self-sustaining." Read: the good US employment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... Securitisation?" to the Australian Securitisation Conference. Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their Indexes of Economic Activity for September. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its labour price index for September quarter and ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
"Significant challenges remain. The flow of credit remains constrained, economic activity weak and unemployment much too high. Future setbacks are possible." With these words Virginia, Benny Bernanke again set the market for risk assets alight. Equities ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... ladies and gentlemen, I have brought back the V. The yield curve has been a consistent and reliable indicator of economic activity - but with variable lags. Remember ex-Fed chief Greenspan's interest rate conundrum back in 2006? He couldn't figure out ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations." In other words -- until economic activity has picked up sufficiently to put upward pressure in these parameters. A Bloomberg survey shows that financial markets do not ...