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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... economic news on the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release lending finance data for July and international trade in goods and services, also for July. In equities news, Platinum Australia Ltd will release its full year results. On Friday, the ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... broken through the 69,000 barrier. Even better news is that these applications are in more categories than ever, ranging from goods and services that include clothing, surfboards and sports drinks. These figures from IP Australia are welcome because ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... dollar was trading at 104.76 US cents, little changed from 104.80 cents on Wednesday. Data out overnight showed US durable goods orders in July rose four per cent,much better than the 2.4 percent increase economists had expected. Market sentiment this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... economy because it reduces the value of foreign earnings for companies that export cars, electronics and other manufactured goods. Mr Ive said the market this week would focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a central bank ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... committee places less emphasis on the industrial production and real sales series, which mainly cover the manufacturing and goods-producing sectors of the economy. The committee also looks at estimates of monthly real GDP prepared by Macroeconomic Advisers." ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... reported slower growth in June and early July with employment remaining weak in most districts. In addition, US durable goods orders dropped by 2.1% in June when consensus expected a flat result. Now this is no bull. For these latest updates put doubt ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... point? We've witnessed the same arguments -- pros and cons, winners and losers - and scares before, during and after the GST (goods and services tax) was introduced on 1 July 2000 - the biggest economic reform of the time. I can still picture then Liberal ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... bouncing) and where mark-ups are less. The Melbourne Institute reported last month that Aussie retailers' mark-up on their goods is a whopping 65% -- and that's just the average. And then there's policy uncertainty -where the Gillard government announces ...

Ascalon fund cashes in on low carbon world

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... social change in favour of clean energy," said Evison. Ascalon expects that as more economies embrace low carbon regulations, goods and services will change to suit, including production and location. "This is the only fund in Australia that enables ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... expected to be announced at 1430 AEST. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases data on international trade in goods and services for May, and the Australian Industry Group and Commonwealth Bank issue their Australian Performance of Services ...