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Same old same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... annualised 2.4 percent decline. This represents a sharp drop from the 4 percent annualised growth rate achieved in the March quarter. Exports fell as global growth slowed and domestic spending declined due to higher prices. And no good news for the UK. ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... surprise if the data comes in weaker than expected given the unbelievably strong increase of 1.0 percent in the March quarter. Recall that even the Japanese government - historically always more bullish on the economy - has warned that Japan could tip ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... quarter, worse than expectations of a 0.1 percent contraction and accelerating the 0.3 percent fall recorded in the March quarter. The poor retail sales reading has re-ignited calls for an RBA cut in interest rates even before the year is over, citing ...

APRA to review super fund stats

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... industry, public sector, retail and corporate. Using the metric 'return on assets' (ROA), it reported that in the March quarter, industry and public sector funds lost 6.6 per cent, corporate funds lost 7.6 per cent and retail funds lost 8.8 per cent. ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... rise. Markets expect real retail sales to show a 0.1 percent dip in the second quarter after a similar fall in the March quarter. Private sector credit will also be released on Wednesday. Market expects private sector credit to remain buoyant, rising ...

All Eyes on the CPI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... June quarter. Headline CPI is expected to show consumer prices rose by 1.3 percent in the quarter, matching the March quarter's rise. This will take the annual headline inflation rate to 4.3 percent, up from 4.2 percent in the previous quarter. Reserve ...

Quiet Market Activity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... prices rose by 4.7 percent, lower than forecasts for a 5.2 percent gain and the 4.8 percent increase posted in the March quarter. But for the lower-than-expected outcome, financial markets generally ignore the PPI data. More important for the state of ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... three-month period. This will take the annual headline inflation rate up to 4.3 percent from 4.2 percent in the March quarter. The RBA measures of inflation, which are released at the same time as the headline CPI report, are expected to show the rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... some blue chip stocks. Both the currency and the sharemarket were relatively unmoved by a worse than anticipated March quarter current account deficit of $NZ2.16 billion. The benchmark NZSX-50 closed up 10.7 points at 3291.97, on turnover valued at $NZ123.4 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... minutes from its June board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases unit commencements data for the March quarter. The Australian share market closed slightly lower yesterday despite earlier gains and a good lead from Wall Street over the ...