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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The Australian share market has opened flat.

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Financial markets were on wait mode overnight - waiting for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street ahead of consumer confidence and housing data and in anticipation of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting.

Mixed outlook for Aussie dollar

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
While each commentator at this morning's Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum agreed that the investment in the mining sector had peaked, they found it harder to reach a consensus on the direction of the Australian dollar.

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Australian economists agree that how the country's economy transitions from mining-driven investment to other areas of growth will be the single biggest issue of 2013.

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
The Australian share market has opened more than half a per cent higher.

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
The intended effects didn't happen the following day those quantitative easing measures were announced, but they're happening now.

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The size and complexity of European Union public pension liabilities masks the funding needs of member countries, according to new research by the EDHEC-Risk Institute.

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher, with sentiment still positive after encouraging economic data from China and the United States.

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Betterer and betterer. That's the feeling one gets when one scours through the macro stats and surveys released over the past 24 hours.