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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... ten points at 5,723. In economic news today, the Reserve Bank holds its monthly board meeting on interest rates, but economists say rates are likely to stay on hold at 7.25 per cent. All eyes will be on the accompanying statement, which is expected to ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... at least it will help the country pay for its oil import bill. Inflation rising 4.2 per cent, above what most market economists were expecting, is also raising speculation that the Reserve Bank may have to go into interest rate ammo locker one more time. ...

Volatility hits 5-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... to come to fruition." Rising volatility supports the growth in negative sentiment around the US markets even though economists are increasingly foreshadowing a stabilisation of conditions, notwithstanding this just highlights the disconnect between financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... up 177 points at 5,585. Today, Dr David Gruen from Treasury's Macroeconomic group speaks at the Australian Business Economists lunch on the economic outlook. In company news, Seven Network chairman and WA Newspapers board aspirant Kerry Stokes talks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... monthly board meeting, with the announcement of its decision on the official interest rate to follow at 1430 AEDT. Economists expect the official cash rate to remain unchanged. The RBA also will release its commodity price index for March. The Australian ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... Reserve (the Fed) - amid rising producer prices, falling consumer confidence and sharply lower house prices - that's got economists speculating over the US heading for 1970s-style stagflation. Strong commodities and food prices have caused the Fed to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... showed growth in retail spending stalled in January as consumers started to feel the pinch of rising interest rates. Economists don't expect this will prevent the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) from raising interest rates again today, however, given ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... manufacturing activity from the Institute for Supply Management fell in February, but the decline was not as steep as economists' forecasts. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53.24 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 12,213.15. The Standard & Poor's 500 ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... corporate sector was redistributed by the Howard government to the battlers," he told ABC radio yesterday. But even leading economists have dismissed the call, arguing that to freeze expenditure would constrain the government from lifting expenditure ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... hard for planners to invest into the country? Influential planners who attended the recent Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum said that encouraging their platforms to put Indian funds onto their platforms was so difficult they were considering ...