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AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... futures contract was up one point at 5,406. Locally, in economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Economic) Christopher Kent delivers a speech to the Wall Street Journal's Labour Market Developments gathering in Sydney. Indian ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... must have done something good." In his alone times, it wouldn't be surprising to catch imported Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney humming this tune from "The Sound of Music" to himself (perhaps at the same time that his predecessor, Sir Mervyn ...

Former Future Fund MD joins Qantas Super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who stepped down from the boards of Qantas and Qantas Super last January to become Australia's Governor-General. Costello has held number high profile roles in the superannuation industry. He was the inaugural managing director ...

FSC-ISA court clash to go ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... AM2014/6." The latter is a reference to the upcoming Federal Court hearing. Allen wrote a letter of resignation to the governor-general last week, saying: "[T]he President of the Commission has informed me that, in his opinion, my present work in the ...

Double boo boo on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... announcing the result of its policy deliberations at 2:30PM (AEST). Markets expect no change in policy but would be scouring Governor Glen's statement for clues of what's next. Speaking of what's next, the European Central Bank's (ECB) Council meeting ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... and Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson delivers his post-federal budget speech to economists in Sydney. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to deliver a speech to a Financial Services Institute of Australia lunch in Adelaide. ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... 2.0% thereafter. So here we have it Virginia, the BOE would not be in a hurry to raise interest rates anytime soon. BOE Governor Mark Carney football (soccer) analogy may make this easier understood: "Securing the recovery is like making it through the ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... We'll have to wait until 7:30 tonight (AEST) to find out how bloody, sweaty and teary we'll get. Then again, there's Governor Glen Stevens we can count on to wipe those blood, sweat and tears away - or some of it. He's an accommodative central banker ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its latest statement on monetary policy. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at a Women in Banking and Finance (WIBF) ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... economy away from investment in the resource sector, heavy front loading of fiscal consolidation should be avoided." Governor Glen - as with us, Australians all - must be sweating at the suspense. He counterbalanced Julia and Wayne's commitment to deliver ...