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Arena appoints new chair

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... real estate and investment management sectors gained over 30 years, including senior roles in Australia and the United States. Ross held senior positions with Lend Lease Corporation over a period of 10 years, including Global and US Chief Executive Officer ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... impressive gains in New York forex trade, while dealers awaited the release of closely-watched jobs data in the United States later in the day. Tokyo closed up 0.44 per cent, or 38.71 points, at 8,863.30, Sydney rose 0.94 per cent, or 42.0 points, to ...

Australia can't afford complacency: Murray

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... industry is now, but the price they're paying for term deposits, which is basically a reflection of Europe and the United States issues, is the highest relative to swap rates I have ever seen in my career."

EM debt not to be overlooked: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... shows that the risk premium on dollar-denominated emerging-market sovereign debt has shrunk to 370 basis points over United States Treasuries, from 426 basis points at the end of 2011. "Over the last five years, Australian institutions who invested in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... loans. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed as early gains caused by better-than-expected manufacturing data from the United States were overshadowed by lingering concerns over Spain's debt woes. But the US figures, which followed minor improvements ...

ANZ fined over futures contracts

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
ANZ was last week fined $US350,000 by commodity regulators in the United States, after exceeding speculative position limits in wheat and cotton futures contracts. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said ANZ had exceeded speculative ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United States Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing program, Froot regarded this third consecutive decline in North American ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... Asian markets have risen, rebounding from the previous day's losses, as stimulus moves by the central banks of the United States, Europe and Japan outweighed another round of weak economic data. Shares looked set for a positive end to a week that saw ...

The Fed may have gone too far

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
While markets have reacted positively, there is a chance that the United States Federal Reserve has gone too far, Michael Power, Investec Asset Management strategist, told Financial Standard this morning. Despite Ben Bernanke saying that he will do ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Russell said. "We are still in this holding pattern waiting for further leads to what's happening in Europe and the United States." Market players were mulling over a potential further round of economic stimulus from the US Federal Reserve after a two-day ...