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Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... led many commentators to raise the spectre of recession. This pessimism was compounded with the news that gross domestic product for the September quarter was just 0.3%, less than half the expected figure. Meanwhile, real gross domestic income - which ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... after disappointing economic growth figures increased expectations of an interest rate cut. The nation's gross domestic product rose by 0.3 per cent in the September quarter, below the 0.7 per cent rise economists were expecting. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases national accounts data for the September quarter, including gross domestic product, while the Australian Industry Group's November Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) is due out. ASIC chairman Greg ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... share price index futures contract was up six points at 5,356. Commerce Department figures showed that US gross domestic product rose at a 3.9 per cent annualised rate, up from an initial estimate of 3.5 per cent. The median forecast of 81 economists ...

Financial services Australia's largest industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
Financial services is now Australia's largest industry, accounting for 9% of gross domestic product, a new report has found. The report, which was commissioned by the Financial Services Council and UBS Global Asset Management, also found that "booming ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher on strong US leads and iron ore price gains. US stocks extended the rally that began late last week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing 0.12 per cent higher on Monday. Wall Street's gains and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... have both tumbled 11 per cent. Investors are expected to pay particularly close attention to third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data from the world's number two economy, China, on Tuesday. The euro firmed to $US1.2781, compared with $US1.2759 ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... weekly applications for unemployment aid last week climbed 21,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 311,000. German gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 per cent in the June quarter prompting speculation the European Central Bank would have to roll ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 in 2008, and this was before the budgetary crisis that ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... corporate and economic news to give much drive to the market, investors likely would look toward US quarterly gross domestic product figures and a US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday to provide direction, he said. At 1200 AEST, QBE was down $1.30 ...