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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The release by the ABS of national CPI data has shown that overall there was a 0.9 per cent increase during the third quarter, tallying to a 3.9 per cent annual rate. This suggests that the coming RBA meeting on 7 November will see the board under pressure ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Just released ABS data on sales of new motor vehicles shows an increase in September in seasonally adjusted terms by 3.0 per cent over the August figure. However, sales are still 3 per cent below their level of a year ago. With the ABS tables it can ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Financial markets across the world have held up reasonably well despite North Korea's nuclear tests that sent shockwaves across global financial markets on Monday. Most markets recovered by Tuesday and the US Dow Jones Industrial Index reached its record ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

Private equity capital raising breaks $4bn for 2005-06

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Private equity funds invested $2.3 billion into target companies while raising $4.1 billion in new capital raisings in the 12 months to 30 June 2006. Thomson Financial, working with the Australian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (AVCAL) ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
The Reserve Bank has decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 6 per cent following the Australian Bureau of Statistics announcement yesterday that in seasonally adjusted terms retail sales increased by 0.3 per cent in August after the 0.5 per cent ...

IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

Super assets surge to $914 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
The value of superannuation assets has jumped to $913.9 billion on the back of stellar equity investment returns and strong inflows, up 19.8 per cent over the last 12 months. The results are contained in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's ...

Smooth swimming for AUI Platypus

Six months on since wealth manager Australian Unity Investments (AUI) sealed a 50-50 joint venture with top performing boutique fund manager Platypus, the newly formed AUI Platypus Australian Equities Trust continues to beat the market. Speaking at ...