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Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... recession-struck Spain soared in October to the highest level for at least 16 years. Eyes are on the world's two biggest economies this week, as US President Barack Obama battles for re-election in a tight race against Republican challenger Mitt Romney ...

Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... environment will remain challenging," she said. "However, the Australian economy is robust relative to most other developed economies, still has room in its interest rates to provide stimulus and its connections to Asia's growth markets support its underlying ...

With or without China we're not cactus: James

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... projected to be 3.3% this year - is not far off normal. With so much preoccupation on the tribulations of developed world economies, James says there's a failure to recogonise that emerging and developing markets will do much of the heavy economic lifting ...

Vanguard launches Fixed Interest Index ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... range of index portfolios," he said. "This offers the benefit of competitive pricing and other portfolio advantages that economies of scale permit." ETFs currently represents 7% of the of the overall ETF investments, following the product's trading permit ...

Too much ado over MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... and/or other investors would care if this smaller surplus actually turns out to be a small deficit. Relative to the big economies of the United States, Japan, the Eurozone and the UK, Australia's budget, even the 2011/12 deficit of 3.0% of GDP, is a ...

LM secures due diligence agreement

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... and chief executive at LM said the equity investors recognise Australia has one of the world's strongest performing economies and know the country is in great shape. He noted that Australia is being looked upon as an investment destination of desire ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... was blamed, in part, for the on-set of the GFC in 2007. Now that indebtedness has been passed onto some of the largest economies in the world, investors are understandably taking a closer look at their exposures this time around. Fleming admitted: "Government ...

QE results in currency wars

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... of quantitative easing across the developed world triggers economic, political and social consequences for developing economies, according to Threadneedle Investments. In the post-Lehman days, the Federal Reserve adopted a new framework for monetary ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... the Valencian Business Confederation in Spain that, "The overall picture then is that we expect growth in the advanced economies to slow but not stop..." It didn't stop alright and the global economy contracted. Actual result -- world growth slipped ...