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From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
What a difference a week can make. A little more than a week after the Dow Jones average hit a record high, on Thursday the share market began a backward landslide. Global equity markets took another hit on Friday night on the back of the US sub-prime ...

IMF blames the world

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
While the Federal Treasurer insists Australia's inflation remains within RBA targets, the International Monetary Fund warns central banks must tighten fiscal policies as global growth accelerates. In a July update to its 2007 World Economic Outlook ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

Gloves come off over ASX monopoly

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
As ASIC calls for public submissions on the ASX's local shares trading monopoly, rival AXE claims the ASX has been running a competition fear campaign. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a consultation process on ...

Economic balancing act

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
Producer price index (PPI) data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday show an increase in producer prices of 1.0 per cent in the June quarter, slightly higher than the median forecast of 0.8 per cent and giving an annual increase ...

China's rates up again

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
Some call it knee jerk, some call it inevitability, but either way China raised interest rates for the third time since March, by 27bp to 6.84 per cent in an attempt to cool the fastest pace of economic growth in 12 years and combat record inflation. ...

Election looms over investment markets

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
The upcoming Federal election could generate market uncertainty but with the two major parties' having similar broader macroeconomic policies, it's unlikely any market jitters will last. In a discussion paper on a possible election back-lash on the ...

China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
China continues to blitz market expectations with GDP growth in the June quarter coming in at 11.9 per cent, well above the expected 11.0 per cent and their strongest growth since Q3 1994. China's industrial production also expanded by 1.3 per cent ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Ever onwards and upwards, the Australian dollar nudges US88Ac, and New Zealand's inflation is stubbornly refusing to come down. The Australian dollar climbed steadily for a ninth consecutive day to reach an 18-year record of US0.8789 overnight. Falls ...

Market gains velocity

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
Stock velocity has increased five fold over the past 15 years, having implications not only for liquidity, but consequentially the capacity constraints of long-only investment managers. The Asia Pacific equity research team at JPMorgan describe 'stock ...