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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... economy, which suffered a shock contraction in the final three months of last year, would likely avoid a double-dip recession. However, the central bank, releasing its quarterly economic report, also predicted annual inflation would hold "well above" ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Economic uncertainty in the Middle East following uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt show how intertwined the global economy is with geopolitics, making more volatility the only certainty. First the background. According to a briefing note put out yesterday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... above 12,000 for the first time in 2 1/2 years - yet another sign that the economy is extending its recovery from the recession. Macquarie Private Wealth adviser Helen Spencer said firmer commodities prices, encouraging US manufacturing data and a powerful ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... among the highest for rated sovereigns -- will continue to rise further than we envisaged before the global economic recession hit the country and will peak only in the mid-2020s... In our opinion, the Democratic Party of Japan-led government lacks a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... floods and the realisation that we might see our economy contract a little before it grows again," he said, adding that a recession was very unlikely. "If you look at the demand that will be created from the floods, it will be quite outstanding - demand ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... showing Australia in the wrong light. But with Australia's tourism industry reeling from a sky high Australian dollar and recession across the developed world, the $5 million cost to the taxpayer for bringing the Oprah extravaganza to Australia may well ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... cure eventually becomes the disease", he said. "For example, financial market deregulation drove the recovery from the recession in the 1980's and caused the recession in the early 1990s." Similarly, the recession of the 1990s ended as interest rates ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... back to life after the mid-year pause and especially after the GFC-induced contraction that sent the country into a recession from December 2007 to June 2009. Certainly some things still have to be righted in America - such as their housing and labour ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... months ago, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) tested 91 European banks on their ability to survive a recession and/or a sovereign debt crisis. Only seven banks failed -- five in Spain, one in Germany and one in Greece - and the amount ...