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China is doing Australia no favors with iron ore contracts

Posted on August 20th, 2009 in Australian stocks, australian stocks online, Bullish, China massive stimulus plan, china stock market, commodities, economic slowdown, FMG, Fortescue metals group, HSBC, india, iron ore, market, perth

China’s stocks rose 4.52 percent on Thursday’s close. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 4.52 percent, or 126.00 points, to finish at 2,911.58. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 3.91 percent, or 438.43 points, to end at 11,648.35.Combined turnover expanded only slightly to 191.33 billion yuan ($28.01 billion) from 191.07 billion yuan on the previous trading [...]

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Investing in fixed Interest securities

Posted on August 11th, 2009 in economic recovery, economic slowdown, Finance, Fixed rate, homebuyers, market funds, Market News, stocks markets

Since early March, investors have had a bit of a breather from the devastation of 17 months of almost constant bad economic, financial and investment news. If we haven’t yet seen the bottom of this economic cycle, we’ve almost certainly seen the worst of the stockmarket falls. How much money has been lost? By all [...]

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Westpac agrees to maintain dividend

Posted on December 11th, 2008 in aus, aussie dollar, aussie local banks, australian Banking industry, cent, economic slowdown, micro cap, perth, westpac

Due to economic slowdown, Australia’s Westpac bank still promised to maintain its dividend, despite some speculation that its balance sheet growth is set to slow over the coming year.On the wider economy, Mr Evans noted that while the Reserve Bank of A…

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