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Unemployment stays steady

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
The number of people employed in Australia fell nearly 20,000 during May but the unemployment rate has remained steady on 4.2 per cent. The ABS has just reported the latest Labour Force figures and they show almost no change in the key metrics of participation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong performance on Wall Street overnight. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was up 39 points at 5,377. Today, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor ...

Instos rushing to infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Infrastructure has traditionally hovered at the outskirts of mainstream asset classes - but industry players are now putting more money into the sector as investors seek a safe haven from poor returns. According to RARE Infrastructure, institutional ...

APRA hunts down 32 funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
APRA is flexing its muscle and threatening to remove 32 trustees from their super funds. The prudential regulator has announced it is seeking information on 32 superannuation funds whose Trustees have failed to apply to APRA to be licensed. It is proposing ...

Value of investment housing loans apps up 1.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Surging rental demand combined with damp house prices might finally be attracting more cashed-up investor capital into the housing market. According to the April 2008 Housing Finance figures just released by the ABS, while the value of owner occupied ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker performance on Wall Street overnight as inflation worries were stoked after US Federal Reserve Bank chairman, Ben Bernanke, said the Fed would work hard to keep inflation expectations ...

CalPERS may lose $947 million

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) may lose nearly $950 million from its investments in US housing crash-victim LandSource. CalPERS invested $947 million in US property developer LandSource, which recently filed for bankruptcy ...

Schroders AP fund on hold

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Schroder's Asia Pacific fund has been put on hold by ratings house Standard & Poor's (S&P) following the departure of the fund's portfolio manager, Millicent Lai. Lai quit Schroders to pursue "other opportunities", according to a statement released ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Toyota's expected decision to start manufacturing hybrid engines in Australia will do more to address Australia's oil supply worries than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lecturing OPEC to increase production. During the weekend it was widely reported that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks made a modest rebound following Friday's sharp slide, as investor sentiment was lifted after a realtors report showed pending home sales rose 6.3 per cent during April, providing ...