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A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was ...

Market set to fall

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... fell shy of expectations and commentary from some analysts that the 47.5 million iPhones sold missed expectations. Deutsche Bank said the market's reaction to Apple's results showed "it's getting harder to beat the bulls." Microsoft reported a loss of ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has insisted that despite the challenges the bank has faced in its financial advice business and in spite of widespread digitisation, face-to-face planners will remain at the heart of the company's business ...

Class makes final director appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
As Class works toward an IPO later this year, the company behind the cloud-based SMSF tool Class Super has appointed the final new director to its board. Following the recent announcement of three new directors, Class chairman Barry Lambert named the ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... "The one project I really enjoyed was when we had to prepare for the BT's banking licence to expire. All of the accounts and bank branches had to be moved over to the new banking services provider. We moved 34 teams over at the same time - everything ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... According to the tech behemoths, Wall Street's outperformance is because of "unprecedented stimulus from the country's central bank, the US Federal Reserve" and - not beating their own drums - "...the glaring absence of a technology sector specifically". ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... September share price index futures contract was down 27 points at 5,619. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at an Anika Foundation event in Sydney. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau ...

Market higher despite resources slump

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... were gains by Oil Search after its improved full year production forecast, and three of the big four banks. Commonwealth Bank was the only major lender to be lower, down 34 cents at $88.02.

SMSF admin reacts to criticism: don't like it, don't use it!

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... with enhanced member engagement, and if low-cost providers can help facilitate this (albeit via commercial relationship with bank), then surely that's a win/win for everyone."

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Well they tried, and they tried, and they tried, but it seems that there's just no bringing back gold's shine. Gold was hit for six - that is, prices dropped for a sixth consecutive day overnight - down to a low of US$1,088.05 per ounce (the lowest ...