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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... difficulties and challenges". A soft result was widely expected as the economy was hit last year by a slowdown in manufacturing and trade as well as declining prices for real estate, which has sent shock through the property sector. WELLINGTON - New ...

Investec property fund acquires $8.1m warehouse

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... costs). The majority of the income (93%) is underpinned by a lease to industrial engineering design company Wilhelmsen Manufacturing Australia (WMA). WMA is owned by Skips AS Tudor Norway, the private investment vehicle of the Wilhelmsen shipping and ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... them out of the ground and exporting them. But now that we have to compete internationally in areas like tourism, manufacturing, higher education and so on, the Australian dollar needs to go lower to make the economy more competitive again." However ...

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... "Job gains were widespread, led by growth in professional and business services, retail trade, health care, and manufacturing," according to the BLS. Private sector jobs gained 314K following a 236K increase in October. Goods producers added 48K heads ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... spent, not saved". This would add to the strengthening momentum in the US economy. A fact highlighted by the ISM manufacturing index's better-than-expected read for November. While the ISM index slipped to 58.7 in November from 59.0 in the previous month ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell on poor Black Friday sales and a China manufacturing slowdown. At 0819 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 15 points at 5,227. US sales came in less ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... releases business indicators for the September quarter. Also due out is the Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index, the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge and the RP Data Core Logic Home Value Index, all for ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... because the November PMI readings only confirmed what we already know that we knew all along. At 54.7 in November, the manufacturing PMI for the US remains in expansion (albeit, it has "now dropped for three months in a row"); the Eurozone has stalled ...

Financial services Australia's largest industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... is 10.4% of GSP. FSC chief executive John Brogden said financial services industry was now larger than mining and manufacturing. " While growth in other industries is slowing down, financial services is continuing to grow," he said. "Our report shows ...

Sally Loane new CEO of the Financial Services Council

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... services is the engine room of the Australian economy. As Australia's largest industry - larger than mining and manufacturing - financial services is integral to Australia's economic growth. There is tremendous scope to cement financial services as an ...