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Economics

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Prescriptions, prescriptions, prescriptions.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a positive lead from international markets after data showed a pickup in US job creation.

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The share market is in positive territory, but finding resistance against any sizeable gains.

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Central banks are expected to continue to keep on giving until the bad becomes good and the good, better.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained following solid manufacturing data from China.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The share market has opened lower with a weak start for the big four banks, despite a positive lead with solid gains on Wall Street overnight.

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
"I think this extraordinary commitment is still needed and will be for some time, and I believe that view is widely shared by my fellow policymakers at the Fed."

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite strong gains on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen was dovish about the US economy's recovery.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
The share market has made a better than expected start to the week, with gains in most sectors.

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) would do after they met and deliberated on monetary policy this week... and Japan ...