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Political debate defers FOFA clarity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... implementation stages, you've got to track everything through" Mc Donald maintained that while his firm has already done a huge amount of work to become FOFA ready, time was of the essence. "We've spent an inordinate amount of time and a lot of work ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... Italy's borrowing costs eased as it searched for a successor to Silvio Berlusconi. A day after regional markets suffered a huge sell-off over Italy's growing debt crisis, a successful bond auction in Rome provided some respite. However, trade was cautious ...

Investment the way of the future, says ANZ chief economist

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... we have more capital, and because we've already gone through that fright. So I don't think a downturn in China would be a huge disaster," said Hogan. While it might not have catastrophic implications for Australia, Hogan said a Chinese downturn would ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... euro accord (not of the Honda variety) would see the light of day. The Monday after saw equity markets give up some othe huge gain made the week before. We spent the 5-6 November weekend wondering what's next for Greece after PM Papandreou's referendum/no ...

Strong leadership essential to face superannuation challenges

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Professionals in the superannuation industry need to take the lead in guiding the public through the challenges currently facing the sector, delegates at the 2011 ASFA conference heard. That's according to former chief of the defence forces and Qantas ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... Alpha Natural Resources fell eight per cent. Markets fear that a chaotic default by either Greece or Italy would lead to huge losses for European banks. That, in turn, could cause a global lending freeze that might escalate into another credit crisis ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... that while concerns still remain for the unfathomable size of the US economy's fiscal challenges, the US is nonetheless a huge deep $35 trillion market. Investors not wanting to head to the US market only other options are the Japanese bond market, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... slump for Olympus after the company said that a panel's probe into some of its past deals found they were used to cover up huge losses on investments in the 1990s. The camera maker has now lost 70 per cent of its value since its British former CEO raised ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... worries grew that the long-awaited European Union deal addressing the eurozone debt crisis, whose delivery on Thursday sparked huge market rallies, was short on details. Spanish and Italian bond yields had risen while commodities were down overnight. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... worries grew that the long-awaited European Union deal addressing the eurozone debt crisis, whose delivery Thursday sparked huge market rallies, was short on details. Market jitters were further heightened after embattled Greek Prime Minister George ...