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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... unveiled financial regulation reform plans. Market action began after the Labor Department said its consumer price index (CPI) rose a modest 0.1 per cent in May from April, seasonally adjusted, less than the expected 0.3 per cent gain. Financial stocks ...

Future Fund posts 6pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... strategic asset allocation that's been set [for the fund]...our job is to create value for our stakeholders and deliver on the CPI plus 4.5 per cent [target returns]," said Neal.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... was up 63 points at 3,439 on a volume of 16,670 contracts. "The market was trading fairly flat on open in anticipation of CPI (Consumer Price Index) data and we've seen it rise following that better than expected result, with inflation now at eleven-year ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... to a six and a half year low of 4.25 per cent currently. And this was at a time when all measures of inflation - headline CPI, trimmed mean, weighted median - were still trending higher. Thus far, Australia has been fortunate enough to avoid being drag ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... US consumer prices were falling at a rate of 1 per cent per annum and growth contracted by 2.6 per cent? Maybe. US headline CPI inflation fell by 0.7 per cent in December, up by only 0.1 per cent from a year ago - the smallest year-on-year gain since ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... news of a significant fall in US headline consumer prices have hammered the final nail in the inflation coffin. US headline CPI dropped by a full percentage point in October - the biggest drop in 61 years - after a flat September reading. This took the ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... by 100 basis points early this month to 6 per cent, and is expected to lower borrowing rates again despite yesterday's high CPI result. In true Keynesian fashion, the Federal Government has dipped into its surplus and is giving spending money to pensioners ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... the annual rate of change in industrial output to -4.5 per cent. The US economic glass is half-full camp concentrated on the CPI data indicating that inflationary pressures are weakening. US headline CPI steadied in September, lower than expectations ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... the malaise in the US financial sector and its broader economy remain. US: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, CPI inflation data, updates on the housing market and industrial production heads the long list of market moving releases due ...

Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
... Japan: Inflation and employment figures will be the focus of attention for Japanese financial markets this week. Headline Tokyo CPI is expected to increase by 1.6 per cent in the year to August with the core Tokyo rate forecast to rise by 0.3 percent. ...