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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose on bargain-buying at the end of a disappointing week that saw Japan plunge into recession and a trumpeted Hong Kong Shanghai exchange link-up fall flat. The yen made some inroads against the US dollar and euro after ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... - beat them all, finishing 1.6% on the up and up overnight. Not only were markets heartened by its slim escape from recession - real GDP grew by 0.1% in the third quarter reversing the 0.1% contraction in the second - but fresher data "indicated" it's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... support with another record close. Tokyo - which lost almost three per cent on Monday on news Japan's economy was in recession - jumped 2.18 per cent, or 370.26 points, to 17,344.06 on Tuesday. Seoul added 1.20 per cent, or 23.38 points, to 1,967.01 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... support with another record close. Tokyo - which lost almost three per cent on Monday on news Japan's economy was in recession - jumped 2.18 per cent, or 370.26 points, to 17,344.06 on Tuesday. Seoul added 1.20 per cent, or 23.38 points, to 1,967.01 ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... printing presses - still could not put Humpty back together again. For again, Japan is officially back in technical recession - real GDP contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter that followed a 1.9% fall in the second - it's fourth in six years. Given ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street fluctuated amid concern over Japan slipping back into recession. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,437. In local economic news ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... to 9,252.94. Milan jumped 0.97 per cent and Madrid edged up 0.07 per cent. France and Germany narrowly avoided a new recession in the third quarter, while the broader 18-nation eurozone also faces anaemic growth with just a 0.2 per cent expansion. Eurozone ...

Embrace rising retirement age, says futurist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... an optimistic five year forecast for the Australian economy, saying there is no reason why the country should go into recession between now and 2018. However, he said going for 25 years without a recession could lead to "boiling frog syndrome", as many ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... 1998. It was the dollar-A's drop from around US$0.65 in early 2000 to US$0.49 that saved the country from the 2001 US recession (and September 11). It was the dollar-A's drop from around US$0.97 in July 2008 to US$0.62 four months later that helped the ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... financial services industry was a "logical step." But having finished her studies right in the middle of the early 1990s recession, finding a job was not easy. "Like everyone graduating from university at that time," she says, "it was difficult to get ...