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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... the European single currency fell to $US1.2302 from $US1.2391 late Thursday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets have fallen as apparently coordinated action by Europe and China to stimulate growth failed to reassure wary investors ahead of US jobs ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... that, "The global economy is in a dangerous new phase. Global activity has weakened and become more uneven, confidence has fallen sharply recently, and downside risks are growing" and consequently lowered its global growth forecasts. And surprise, surprise ...

Super fund returns almost flat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... time horizon metrics -- 1, 3, 5 and 10 years -- fell. The sensitivity in returns is shown by how three year returns have fallen from near 9% in March to 6.4% in May. Not-for-profit funds achieved median 12 month returns of nil and corporate master trusts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... June manufacturing index fell to 49.7 per cent, from May's number of 53.5 per cent. That was the first time the index has fallen below the 50 per cent breakeven point between contraction and growth since July 2009. LONDON - European stock markets rallied ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Australian shares have fallen, as pessimism about the European debt crisis continues. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 15.6 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 4,012.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 16 points ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... is so dire, that there's no way Europe can dig itself out of the hole they buried themselves in, why have stock markets fallen by only so much. The S&P 500 closed 1.6% lower last night and the Euro Stoxx 50 ended 2.6% down. Sure, Spanish and Italian ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... in Cantonese and China based languages are now almost 3-times more widely used than Italian, whose usage has in anycase fallen. Hinduism is meanwhile the fastest growing religion albeit Christianity is of course still by far the most popular. But it's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 27 points, or 0.66 per cent, at 4,036.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 27.4 points, or 0.67 per cent, to 4,084.1. On the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down 30 points at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... London and New York overnight. By 1022 AEST BHP Billiton was down 33 cents, or 1.03 per cent, to $31.58 and Rio Tinto had fallen 77 cents, or 1.39 per cent, to $54.82. Banks and financial stocks made gains, with Westpac leading the big four lenders higher ...

NSW budget to focus on creating infra deals

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... innovative approach to addressing the infrastructure backlog we have." Baird said that because forecast GST revenue to NSW has fallen by more than $5bn since last September, the government has had to look at options other than government spending to ...