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The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... what about those dire forecasts? It'll be hard for me to argue with the IMF and the CBO and their big mean forecasting machines but let's see. Eighty five bil divided over seven months equals just a bit over US$12 bil monthly and more than offset by ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... forecasting a rise in production in 2013 as new projects come on line. In other news, a move to restrict the operation of poker machines by Woolworths has been voted down by the retailers' shareholders. Woolworths shares were up 24 cents at $28.72. Elsewhere ...

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... Shanghai, "but now with the road, and the rail lines, it is getting better." Housed in a factory in Taicang, are high-end machines owned by German component makers EGO. EGO's heating components are in 60% of applicable kitchen appliances around the world. ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... cranking up the dynamics of the virtuous cycle. Confident investors invest. Confident businesses expend on structures, machines and people. Confident consumers spend. Blahs they may be but seems like they're working. They've taken the markets' attention ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... Federal Court to delay a shareholder vote on a potential change to its constitution relating to its ownership of poker machines. The local market closed flat on Thursday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost three points, or 0.07 per cent, to 4,169.2 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... manufacturing rose 0.9 per cent in December, the biggest increase since December 2010. Output surged as companies bought more machines and materials. Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, said the fund was looking at ways to increase its capacity ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... days, weeks and the rest of the year pan out. That blip up in the indices you saw last night was "all watched over by machines of loving grace" (borrowed from BBC's documentary series by Adam Curtis).

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... financial system, it needs to recognise that the system is an integrated network of ecosystems, not a set of independent machines. Speaking at yesterday's Melbourne Financial Services Symposium, Jane Diplock AO, chairman of the IOSCO executive committee ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... Australia's Resources Super Profits Resource Tax? Buzzz! None of the above. It was fatso and his fat finger and the rise of the machines. Bloomberg reports, "According to multiple sources, a trader entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million ...

More ATMs for SuperVantage users

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... Super-backed SuperVantage Account holders can now access their five free monthly ATM transactions across any rediATM or NAB machines throughout Australia. According to a media statement from the $4 billion Vision Super, the fund's partnership of ATM ...