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Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... credibility and its independence, the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet, the inflation and the debasement of the US dollar it'll generate afterwards, and so on and so forth. Noticed anything? They're almost exactly the same arguments raised before ...

15 Aus super funds in Top 300

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... the Top 300 funds globally was 7%, which contributed to an annual growth rate for the past five years of around 18% in US dollar terms, said Towers Watson. Mergers and strong net contributions drove growth over the period, said Martin Goss, senior investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... to a mixed bag of US economic data, with trade cautious ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke. The US dollar eased slightly from the gains it made in New York on the back of an upward revision of American gross domestic product (GDP) ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... costs. But Tokyo's Nikkei index on Tuesday slipped after the previous day's rally, edging down 0.16 per cent as the US dollar held on to recent gains against the yen, underlining a continued shift away from the safe haven Japanese currency. Sydney rose ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... Central Bank dampened hopes for powerful action to fix the eurozone debt crisis, but the euro managed to climb against the US dollar. European markets had advanced in early trading on Monday on a media report the ECB would intervene in debt markets to ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... US no longer triple-A will have numerous unintended negative consequences as investors sell down Treasuries and the US dollar and would be disruptive for equities, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. The Age warned on 7 August 2011 that, "THE Australian sharemarket ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... with 8,166 contracts traded. European stock markets fell in choppy trade as the euro hit another record low versus the US dollar on persistent eurozone tensions with Spanish borrowing costs still at danger levels. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... cent) to 2,862.99. LONDON - European stock markets fell in choppy trade as the euro hit another record low versus the US dollar on persistent eurozone tensions with Spanish borrowing costs still at danger levels. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... the prior week's upwardly revised number of 376,000. LONDON - European equities sank and the euro hit a new two-year US dollar low, as sentiment was jarred by spiking Spanish bond yields and eurozone debt fears. Madrid stocks slumped and Spanish 10-year ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... eurozone deal to help Spain, and shrugged off weak Chinese data. The European single currency tumbled to a new two-year US dollar low as traders questioned whether the latest eurozone deal would resolve Spain's massive debt problems. The euro dived as ...