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You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... recession coming there this year, perhaps even the next? You didn't do your homework, go sit in the naughty corner! The surprise in the eurozone is that its economy only receded by 0.1% in the third quarter (as expected) - less than the 0.2% contraction ...

Federal election to compound market uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... blame for price rises away from the carbon tax and onto the states. "Political risk has a habit of catching investors by surprise", he said. "However, a number of trends can be identified and events monitored by investors who understand that politics ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The success of Telstra's $750 million bond issue could pave the way for further issues from Australia's largest companies, according to Lincoln Indictors' Elio D'Amato. The five-year coupons, the first from the company since 2005, were sold to the market ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Greece would fail to pass more austerity measures, with accompanying violent protests on the streets of Athens and then surprise, surprise... measures passed. And in Spain, one week didn't make it do what financial markets want. It's still not officially ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... $24.41 as the stock started trading without a dividend. Lonsec private client adviser Michael Heffernan said it was no surprise the local market had fallen. "It's a monty that when overseas markets are down by two per cent we are going to be down no ...

RBA holds rates but deploys rhetoric as magic pudding

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Reserve Bank governor Glen Stevens can hold off policy adjustments if rhetoric can help get the economy moving again, according to Instreet managing director George Lucas. Yesterday the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised the market by holding ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... consumer confidence is picking up, the housing market is showing signs of recovery and manufacturing data continues to surprise on the upside, said Zwi in an article for MyClime. The next four years will almost certainly show far stronger growth than ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Hope of recovery in the developed world, improvements in China and Gillard rhetoric around the 'Asian century', have combined to create a golden opportunity for investment in Asia, according to Certitude's Craig Mowll. Mowll, chief executive of the ...

Westpac calm in face of storm

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Westpac's batten-down-the-hatches approach balance sheet management means it's better suited than its rivals to weather future financial storms. The bank is just emerging from a period of consolidation. Jobs have been cut and efficiencies made but the ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... accounts for little more than 10% of GDP growth while the financial sector contributes nearly 50% more. Delivering the surprise figures in a characteristically energetic presentation in Queensland, James acknowledged that risk-averse Australians still ...