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APRA proposes more stringent liquidity reporting

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) latest discussion paper proposes changes to standards for liquidity reporting for authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs). The consultation package includes seven draft reporting forms and ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... expectations. "Investors are, on balance, assuming that the world economy will muddle through, that the European monetary union will survive and that central banks will implement more QE as and when required." "To break out of markets trading range we ...

Funding for women on super boards a union hand out: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... women onto superannuation boards looks like a handout to minister for financial services and superannuation Bill Shorten's "union mates," said Mathias Cormann, shadow minister for superannuation. Rather than a genuine attempt to encourage diversity ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... the leads we had into today." European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards a full EU banking union at a key summit, while traders remembered the 25th anniversary of the 1987 global stock market crash. In the US the Dow dropped ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... looks set to open lower after European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards full EU banking union at a key summit and Wall Street's Nasdaq was pulled down more than two per cent by a tech stock rout led by Apple and Microsoft. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... the economy from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday also provided support, while dealers looked ahead to a European Union summit set to begin later on Thursday. Shanghai rose 1.24 per cent, or 26.07 points, to 2,131.69 while Hong Kong added 0.48 ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... heels of last week's Markit Economics report that, "September saw manufacturing production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia", the latest purchasing managers survey of the service industry shows activity in the sector easing in China - down ...

Aust super system failing retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Australia is headed for a retirement savings disaster, with increasing numbers of baby boomers resorting to the aged pension after spending their entire superannuation to pay off debt, a CPA Australia study has shown. In light of the new study findings ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... short-circuit the further spread of the crisis. The EU powers-that-are could then be free to focus on banking and fiscal union. That, at least, is the prevailing rationale. But Europe being Europe - and as we've seen over the past few years - they're ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... below the 50 expansion/contraction line - and that, "September saw manufacturing production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia" (mainly, China, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan). Just ask the Wall Street Journal. It printed that Spain would miss ...