The Reserve Bank of Australia's computer systems have fallen victim to cyber hacking in at least two highly sophisticated online attacks. Documents released by the RBA show that the central bank was the victim of a "highly targeted" email ...
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Kyodo News reported that Japan central bank monetary policy meeting on the 7th unanimously decided to maintain the current policy and will not implement further monetary easing policy. The meeting also decided to raise assessment on ...
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The Australian sharemarket has finished lower, despite some resilience in the resources and materials sector. Options XPress market analyst Ben Le Brun said the local market had bounced back in afternoon trade as investors looked ahead ...
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Westpac's plain-speaking London economist James Shugg remains as gloomy about the global economy as he was over a year ago, when he said the Australian dollar could plunge to US80c and a break up of the eurozone would prompt a "global ...
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Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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The sharemarket has shot up by more than 1.5 per cent at noon, with investors using yesterday's falls to lap up cheaper stocks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner describes it as a relief rally following Monday's decline. The ...
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The Australian sharemarket roared back yesterday, recovering most of its 75-point loss on Monday, after a US Federal Reserve official reiterated the central bank's commitment to quantitative easing, local retail sales exceeded expectations ...
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The Australian dollar was lower late today as the US dollar strengthened broadly in the wake of more solid economic data from the world's largest economy. Initial claims for US jobless benefits last week dropped to 344,000, compared with ...
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According to data by the Lebanese central bank, cement deliveries have dropped by 4.4% year-on-year to 5.308 million tonnes, The Daily Star has reported. The decline in cement deliveries and construction permits confirms the slowdown or ...
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Recently, the annual figures of the national gross domestic products (GDPs) of various countries of the European Union (EU) were published. Most of them are not very favorable compared to those for Asian countries. Most of them show a ...
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The Australian dollar slumped to its lowest level in more than four months overnight after improved US economic figures and comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's boosted the greenback. At 7am AEDT the currency was down ...
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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
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According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in February this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 73.8 percent, falling 3.6 percentage points ...
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Despite PC giants HP and Dell reporting significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, began to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors in diverse ...
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