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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... 218.52 points at 21,069.56. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket held its gains from early trade after Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard left the official cash rate (OCR) unchanged. The benchmark NZSX-50 index added 10.27 points, or 0.33 per cent ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... capital investment in the year ahead ignited speculation that the RBA will raise interest rates as early as next month. Governor Stevens' statement saying that cash rates would need to rise from the "emergency" level of 3.0 per cent at some point in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... price index contract was 23 points higher at 4378. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor financial system, Malcolm Edey, addresses the Retail Financial Services Forum 2009 on "Examining the Impact of the Global Financial ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... will start lifting interest rates by November this year and a better than even chance it would do so by February 2010. Governor Stevens even declared last week that rates would have to be brought back to normal. When? When the world normalises. The threat ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... September share price index contract was 41 points higher at 4443. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens appears before Federal House of Representatives standing committee on economics. In company news, Leighton ...

Eslake joins think-tank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... Institute's investigation of the key drivers of national productivity growth, most recently highlighted on Tuesday by the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Glenn Stevens," he said. Eslake begins his new role at the institute on 11 August. "The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was five points higher at 4118. In economic news, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Glenn Stevens, will address an Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney. The RBA's Malcolm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... price index contract was six points lower at 4,031. In economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of financial markets, Guy Debelle, addresses a Whitlam Institute Forum at the University of Western Sydney. In company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Bureau of Statistics releases consumer price index data for the June quarter. The Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of financial markets, Guy Debelle, takes part in a panel discussion at a Mortgage Finance Industry Association function. In ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... shrink by 2.05 per cent in 2009 - almost 10 times the contraction forecast for Australia. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Alan Bollard is a little bit more optimistic and expects the economy to grow in the final three months of this year. However ...