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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street and European markets after data showed German investor confidence had returned for the first time this year. At 0852 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... added to the drumbeat of disappointing data from elsewhere which this week alone included the weakest German investor confidence in two years and Chinese factory-gate prices dropping for a record-tying 31st month. "Japanese industrial production tumbled ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... tomorrow's Fed meeting particularly given the reported weak capital flows into China and a further drop in German investor confidence," said Jasper Lawler, an analyst at CMC Markets UK. Investor sentiment in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, fell for ...

Wealthy investors bullish thanks to advice

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
High net worth investor confidence is up, bucking a trend of lower confidence across the market as a whole, according to the latest Certitude Global Investments investor intentions (CGIII) survey. The CGIII, which collates the views of over 600 actively ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... planners doing the right thing, the bad apples have made measures such as mandatory ethics classes important for investor confidence. "The reputation of the financial advice industry is in tatters. Improved educational standards are important, but iron-clad ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... the ECB's 2.0% target - from 1.0% in June. This followed the previous day's ZEW survey revealing that German investor confidence dropped to their lowest level since December 2012. Don't worry, be happy for the more worries the happier we'll be. Super ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... it goes. And it's already impacting on that other big boy - Germany. Data released last night showed that investor confidence fell to a reading of 8.6 in August - less than half market expectations for a 17.0 print and the lowest level since December ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... declined 12.08 (0.27 per cent) to 4,389.25. Market sentiment was dulled by the 18.5 point fall in the ZEW German investor confidence index to 8.6 points in August, its lowest level since December 2012. LONDON - European stock markets have stumbled after ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... 2016 as what happened when former President Fidel Ramos - credited with reviving the economy and restoring investor confidence in the country during his term -- stepped down in 1998. The country stopped movin' on up and languished in the 12 years that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... following an anaemic batch of economic data. As the threat of an armed conflict in Eastern Europe has subsided, investor confidence in higher risk assets has slowly returned, sending the safe-haven yen falling against the US dollar and euro. Tokyo jumped ...