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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... fundamental from a corporate point of view driving the market. Heffernan said he expected the market to remain soft until CPI figures are released at the end of the month. "I don't think you're going see any amazing feat in an upward direction in the ...

Super assets surge to $914 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... kicking. The collapse in the stand-alone corporate fund segment is again confirmed by their 3.4 per cent growth not even matching CPI. With Australia's gross external debt at June, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, being only $792 billion ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
... and it seems like a case of deja vu. Back home, the Australian bond market opened softer this morning after a moderate US CPI figure was released on Friday, cooling speculation that the US Federal Reserve will increase interest rates to curb any inflation ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... it happen again this year, would be on 7 November as a result of the RBA's board meeting then and after the third quarter CPI data is released on 25 October. Australia's latest GDP data shows that the annual economic growth rate has increased to 0.5 ...

Pimco plans absolute return fixed interest fund

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... the sector's typical diversification away from equities, and using diversified strategies could generate income and around CPI plus four per cent target returns. "It's about managers backing their best ideas," said Dorrian. "We can dial up the leverage ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... lower with banking stocks sold off after higher-than-expected inflation figures concerned investors. The consumer price index (CPI) for the June quarter came in at 1.6 per cent pushing the annual rate to four per cent, well above the Reserve Bank of ...

Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... expected Producer Price Index (PPI) has the market and some economists apprehensive about what tomorrow's Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures will signal for inflation, but it drives up the value of cash for fund managers. The PPI rate was released yesterday ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... Chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently stressed that the Fed is particularly monitoring the three- and six-month trends in the core CPI as one of the major determinants for its decision on monetary policy. The uncertainty over the outlook for US interest rates ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2006
... Ben Bernanke, just last week stressed that the Fed is particularly monitoring the three- and six-month trends in the core CPI as one of the major determinants for its decision on monetary policy. Speculation that the Fed will raise interest rates at ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... PPI has added to the current anxiety in financial markets but the US Federal Reserve will be more interested in tomorrow's CPI report to see whether these pipeline price pressures are passing through to the US consumer. But markets are becoming increasingly ...