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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... business Ausdrill sank 11 cents, or 10.33, to $0.955 after the company flagged another profit write-down and warned a recovery in the industry would likely be slower than expected. The big four bankers were all lower. Commonwealth Bank dropped 51 cents ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Ausdrill plummeted 11 cents, or 10.33 per cent to $0.955 after the company flagged another profit write-down and warned a recovery in the industry would be slower than expected. Small resources company Strategic Energy Resources was one of the few positive ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing index jumped to its fastest pace in nine years, to a better-than-expected and a recovery high reading of 58.7 in July. This followed last week's higher-than-predicted 57.1 reading in the ISM manufacturing index. ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... the lack of robust momentum in advanced economies despite very low interest rates and the easing of other brakes to the recovery. In some major emerging market economies, the negative growth effects of supply-side constraints and the tightening of financial ...

S&P, ABN Amro appeals rejected in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... who suffered losses on investments they administered in the wake of the financial crisis. The judgement reaffirms the recovery by the 12 Councils of around $25 million in losses following investments in complex synthetic derivatives - CPDOs - that were ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... be rising on the whole." That's good. It's outlook is also good: "Japan's economy is expected to continue its moderate recovery trend, and the effects of the subsequent decline in demand following the front-loaded increase prior to the consumption tax ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... before the US Congress. And Janet Yellen didn't. We've heard it all: "Although the economy continues to improve, the recovery is not yet complete." "Our evaluation will not hinge on one or two factors, but rather will take into account a wide range of ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... 2.57% last night... down from a high of 2.7% posted on 3 July because of the strong employment that indicated the US recovery "has become self-sustaining" and therefore, "US interest rates will rise sooner than everybody expects". My guess is that if ...

Cbus defends member contact sharing policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... fund members and employers that members' personal information may be released to sponsoring organisations to assist the recovery of entitlements." Cbus confirmed that the CFMEU, as a sponsor organisation, sought information relating to the companies ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... Fuels Self-Sustaining U.S. Expansion: Economy" (Bloomberg) last Independence Day eve. Then again, so what? If the US recovery has really hit self-sustenance velocity, then that's more reason to buy is it not? For what good is borrowing at zero if you're ...