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Demand rises for Aussie bonds and cash: AMP

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... sitting in cash and deposits as of the March quarter, a figure less than half of the $8.2 billion squirreled away in the grim days of June 2009 when panicked investors fled plunging stock markets. But Harrop said people were now returning to fixed interest. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... rate. The data, usually an indicator of trends in both the construction industry and the real estate market, was still quite grim, economists said. Chevron and ConocoPhillips shares both picked up 0.8 per cent, while Hess added 1.6 per cent and Marathon ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... Isn't the US at risk losing its AAA credit rating... or not? It's only been two days since Standard & Poor's issued that grim warning and now, look ma, Wall Street's back and with a vengeance. Please pardon my gloating but I just have to remind you - ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... fourth quarter of last year. -- it was way significantly below back then. And hasn't everyone and his dog already factored in grim news for Portugal...and Spain...and Italy...and...? There's really nothing new in this whole Eurozone contagion tragedy ...

Grimshaw joins Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Suncorp has appointed Caledonia Investment chief executive, Stuart Grimshaw, as a non-executive director. Grimshaw has 25 years experience in banking and financial services in Australia and overseas. Aside from his current role as chief executive, he ...

Equities could deliver zero returns: JANA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... there's a 25 per cent chance that equities as an asset class will deliver low to zero returns over the next 10 years - a grim reality that should spur trustees to start lowering the risk in their existing portfolios today. Speaking at the ASFA conference ...

Up, down and sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... exports: down 2.5 per cent this financial year Energy: down 36 per cent Metals and minerals: down 12 per cent Makes for a grim reading, doesn't it? 'Blame it on the Aussie,' ABARE reasons. The Bureau's latest forecasts are based on its assumption that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... mixed finish on Monday, as a better-than-expected survey on the US services sector helped offset pessimism from last week's grim unemployment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed early weakness and rose 44.13 points, or 0.53 per cent, to ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Sellers...you've been warned. Given the magnitude of yesterday's decline on Wall Street, it was almost inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... cent) to 1,766.19 while the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 28.19 points (3.06 per cent) to settle at 893.04. A grim outlook by the World Bank and declining commodity prices led by oil added to nervousness as investors returned to the market ...