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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
The Australian market is set to open lower as weak manufacturing data from the United States caused a fall on Wall Street. However local shares could be boosted later on Tuesday if the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cuts the cash rate by 25 basis points ...

Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Interest rates could fall to record lows as the Australian economy struggles against a weaker mining sector and low global growth, according to BlackRock's Australian head of fixed income Stephen Miller. The investment specialist says that the rosy ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Greece is saved... again! Wall Street back to worrying about the cliff... again! Yes Virginia, this is another I told you so moment. You, I and Irene expected these to happen all along: We won't have closure on that US$607 billion fiscal cliff until ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after Greece secured a revised bailout deal that will help it again avert a default on its huge debt load. At 0631 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures ...

Double-digit Asian equity returns in 2013: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
Now is an opportune moment for investors to take advantage of battered Asian stocks, particularly in more cyclical sectors, according to BlackRock's Andrew Swan. Speaking via video link-up from Hong Kong at a press event yesterday, the head of Asian ...

Euro endurance is lesser of two evils

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
The euro will survive because the financial and social cost of failure is too great, according to UBS's David McMahon. The seemingly insurmountable level of debt in the eurozone remains arguably the single biggest concerns for global investors but McMahon ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
So what else is new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street and as markets await the outcome of a eurozone ministers meeting on a Greek bailout package. At 0644 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
Calls for further regulation and stricter capital requirements will unnecessarily shackle our liquid banks, says Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the big four banks - Commonwealth Bank ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
There are some pretty good signs that the secular bear market may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with ...