US dollar

Reasonable prospects ahead if investors can hold their nerve

Just when confidence in a stronger world economy was returning, a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing output and concerns about the impact of tapering of the US quantitative easing program... Read more

Daryl Dixon, 3 February 2014, The Canberra Times

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Rising dollar delivers fresh challenges

Just when the prospects for the economy were improving, virtually out of left field, the Australian dollar has risen by more than 5 per cent and currency experts are now expecting it to... Read more

Daryl Dixon, 29 September 2013, The Canberra Times

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Cypriot bank deposit levy proposal is worrying

World sharemarkets were upset this week by the terms of the long-awaited bailout of the Cypriot banking system. The major concern of investors was not with the bailout, which was widely... Read more

Daryl Dixon, 24 March 2013, The Canberra Times

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Repatriation of funds will put a hole in our dollar

One of the most quoted of John Maynard Keynes’s economic maxims is that markets can remain irrational for longer than investors can remain solvent. The original context was Keynes... Read more

Max Walsh, 1 February 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)

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ABC Nightlife dates for 2019

Nerida Cole will once again appear on ABC Nightlife Radio throughout 2019 accompanied by host Philip Clark.

Tune into the program on Tuesdays 10.00pm to 11.00pm on the following dates to hear Nerida discuss the latest topics in super and the economy:

  • Tuesday 2 March 2019
  • Tuesday 9 April 2019 

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