Weekly market update – week ending 11 March, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw most share markets pull back partly due to a perverse reaction to the ECB and partly (or... Read more continue reading

Chinese food prices lift; Wealth up again

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Chinese inflation data; Revised jobs data; Modellers’ database Chinese inflation: Chinese consumer prices rose by 1.6 per cent in February to be up 2.3 per cent over the year (forecast... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 4 March, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen the recovery in risk assets continue with shares pushing higher, bond yields backing up, credit spreads... Read more continue reading

Fastest economic growth in two years

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National accounts Faster growth: The Australian economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the December quarter after an upwardly-revised 1.1 per cent increase in the September quarter (previously up 0.9... Read more continue reading

Inflation targeting: Good strategy, but poor structure

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The monetary policy experiment of inflation targeting has failed to produce a more stable macroeconomic environment. The failure doesn’t stem from the wrong objective, but from the poor structure of... Read more continue reading

Corporate Australia adjusts to new realities

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Corporate Profit Season Each ‘earnings season’ or ‘profit-reporting season’ CommSec tracks all the earnings results of ASX 200 companies to obtain a comprehensive picture of the aggregate health of Corporate... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 26 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The bounce back in global shares continued over the last week led by the US share market which has broken above... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 19 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw the rebound in shares and other risk assets continue. Most share markets saw gains, bond yields were... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 12 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The turmoil in financial markets continued over the last week as worries about global growth, and specifically the exposure of global... Read more continue reading

Mixed airfares; Global shares in focus

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Monthly airfares data; Sharemarket trends Airfares: In smoothed terms, discount fares fell by 6.1 per cent over the year to February. But business class airfares rose at a 7.0 per... Read more continue reading