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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... gauge for June and the Housing Industry Association will unveil new home sales data for May ahead of the central bank's interest rate decision on Tuesday. Among the big four banks, the Commonwealth Bank was down 32 cents to $81.15, Westpac was minus ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Australians with offshore investments and bank accounts; information from Australian and foreign banks on fund flows, interest and account balances; information from informants about offshore accounts, and money transfers to and from offshore bank accounts. ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... insisted to reporters ahead of the report launch. Central banks' bid to help spark growth, by, among other things, slashing interest rates, has helped create more appetite for short-term, high-risk investments on stock markets, and froth in property ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... America's business outlook? Perhaps, it's a combination of all these and punctuated by the firm anchor of the Fed's zero interest rate policy (ZIRP). Moreover, there's also Fed Chair Janet Yellen's repeated assurances that the Fed would take a softly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... Bill Chatterton said the biggest movers were gaming giants Tatts and Tabcorp. The former winning a $450 million plus interest payout from the Victorian government over a broken poker machine contract, but the latter losing its legal case. "The issue ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Jumpin' Jiminy Cricket Batman! The US Federal Reserve will begin to lift interest rates soon - that is, sooner than everyone in the planet expects. Bullard of bull (dropping?). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said so in his ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... asked for an investigation by the Commonwealth Ombudsman into the allegations that suggested that ASIC had a conflict of interest when it granted regulatory relief for generic online superannuation calculators in 2005. Read the full Senate Economics ...

YBR Smarter Money receives rating upgrade

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... primarily in floating rate instruments, Smarter Money carries next to no duration risk which means it is less sensitive to interest rate changes. A One of Smarter Money's portfolio managers, Darren Harvey, says this means the fund can help diversify ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... a negative tone. The market ignored solid offshore leads, provided by the US Federal Reserve suggesting it would keep interest rates low. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 48.7 points, or 0.89 per cent, to 5,419.5. The broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... Daghlian said. Lend Lease stocks took a hit on Wednesday after the developer announced the $A1.20 billion sale of its interest in upmarket UK mall Bluewater Shopping Centre, despite saying the sale would boost its 2014 net profit by 45 per cent. Lend ...