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Such is Microsoft's marketing clout that most people – even Mac owners – immediately think of Word when considering an application to craft letters, tenders, articles, and other types of text documents.
However, despite being the most prevalent choice, Word isn't necessarily the best, and so this group test conducted by MacFormat magazine explores five varied and generally impressive alternatives along with Microsoft's giant, to discover the most suitable application for you.
On test are Mellel 2.5, Microsoft Word 2008, Nisus Writer Pro 1.1, OpenOffice.org 3, Pages 3.0.2 and Scrivener 1.11.
Ease of use
A sign of a good application is if it's intuitive enough to pick up easily. With the exception of Scrivener and, to some extent, Mellel, it's pretty obvious how to get going with all of the applications on test, but it's only once you start digging into more advanced features that the differences emerge.
Mellel's bizarre interface left us nonplussed, and it's easy to get lost in its maze of options. Even with its exhaustive documentation, we often became disorientated, and the application's inability to undo past save points proved a big drawback.
Among Word, OpenOffice.org, Pages and Nisus Writer Pro, the streamlined offerings from Apple and Nisus win out. It's just far more obvious how to use them.
Nisus also adds various widgets that enhance usability and nudge it ahead of Pages. By comparison, OpenOffice.org is aping an aged Word, and Word itself, despite some interface refinements, feels cluttered and overbearing.
Scrivener presents a different way of working, based around projects, but its fantastic tutorial and tidy interface means it scores highly.
Mellel 2/5
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Nisus Writer Pro 5/5
OpenOffice.org 2/5
Pages 4/5
Scrivener 5/5
Layout and styles
This category encompasses each application's ability to create styles for ensuring document-wide visual consistency, along with the kind of DTP-style layout capabilities that many users of word processors require these days.
In terms of layout, Word and Pages get a kick-start via their selection of good-looking built-in templates. Word has improved since Office 2004, and now provides more scope for precision layout and effects, but this was always Pages' virtue, straddling the divide between word processing and DTP. The current version is no exception, and its superior interface nudges it ahead of Word.
Both apps are fine at styles, too, although Word's interface is often needlessly complex and fiddly. With Pages, the ability to easily select all instances of a style is a nice touch, although it pales beside the supreme elegance of Nisus Writer Pro.
The latter offers similar features to Pages, but creating and editing styles via its sidebar feels far more intuitive. Mellel impresses with its range of style-oriented features, although it loses ground due to limited layout options.
Mellel 3/5
Microsoft Word 4/5
Nisus Writer Pro 4/5
OpenOffice.org 3/5
Pages 5/5
Scrivener 2/5
Structuring work
Mellel was primarily designed for authoring academic and technical texts, and its Outline pane is fantastic, offering a clear and concise overview of your document.
Elements can be promoted, demoted and rearranged via clicks or drag-and-drop, and it's one of the few elements of Mellel that feels utterly intuitive. Its robust tools for headers, footers, cross-referencing and outlining reflect the kind of project Mellel is best for authoring.
By comparison, Word's outline view, while offering similar functionality, feels dated and clunky, although its various single-click options for inserting structural elements (headers, footers and so on) enable you to give documents a certain amount of visual panache with minimal effort. Oddly, OpenOffice.org's Navigation pane felt superior to Word's equivalent tools, enabling fuss-free restructuring.
Instead of headings, footers and the like, Scrivener offers the means to split documents into sections and then combine selections on the fly, making it the ideal app for arranging and rearranging a lengthy text.
Mellel 5/5
Microsoft Word 3/5
Nisus Writer Pro 2/5
OpenOffice.org 3/5
Pages 2/5
Scrivener 5/5
Language aids
Spelling and proofing tools comprise spell-checking, grammar checking and auto-correction. The first is most important, while grammar checks are never particularly accurate, but are mildly useful for flagging occasional obvious errors, and auto-correction can be either amazing or infuriating.
A greyed-out grammar box, lack of auto-correction and problems checking pasted text got Mellel a big red squiggle here, but every other application on test fared well. Pages clumsily splits grammar and spellchecking into different panes, but redeems itself with plentiful options and strong auto-completion.
Word matches Pages punch for punch with its excellent options, but then falls out of the ring for using proprietary dictionaries rather than the system one.
The star pupil, though, is Nisus Writer Pro. It lacks a grammar checker, but attention to detail elsewhere makes up for this. Highlighted words and current language are shown in a clear interface, while its live thesaurus, auto-correction, keyboard shortcuts and speed give it top-scorer status.
Mellel 2/5
Microsoft Word 4/5
Nisus Writer Pro 5/5
OpenOffice.org 3/5
Pages 4/5
Scrivener 4/5
Office compatibility
Although using an alternative to Word is fine, there's a chance you'll occasionally need to open, edit and save documents created using Microsoft's application. And results proved variable with the DOC and DOCX files we tested.
Every app bar Mellel managed to rip text from our documents (Mellel was fine with DOC files, but stumbled when confronted with DOCX), although Scrivener managed nothing further. Nisus Writer Pro also grabbed tables (if not their styling) from DOCX files and made a stab at including images and layout from DOCs, but generally messed things up.
Surprisingly, OpenOffice.org lags behind Apple's Pages. Neither application got things entirely right: both were confused by Word template cover pages, and while Pages floundered with text styles, OpenOffice.org couldn't correctly deal with image styles and placement. DOCX-wise, however, Pages' blunders were less of an issue.
In terms of exporting back to Word, advanced styling could still be lost occasionally, but again Pages nosed in front of OpenOffice.org.
Mellel 0/5
Microsoft Word 5/5
Nisus Writer Pro 2/5
OpenOffice.org 3/5
Pages 4/5
Scrivener 1/5
Mac integration
One reason for using a Mac is interface consistency. You expect things to work in a certain way across every application and for common conventions to be adhered to. Microsoft sometimes pays scant regard to such things, but the latest Word is an improvement.
On the face of it, Word finally looks and feels like a Mac OS X application. A pity, then, that once you get away from the main window, Word appears transitionary, with inconsistent dialogs, an ignorance of common Mac shortcuts and a lack of support for built-in services. OpenOffice.org sadly apes Word in these regards, not least in its inability to use C and the up and down arrows to jump to the start and end of a document.
Elsewhere, Mellel uses Mac OS X conventions and widgets, but presents them in a way that's akin to an unholy union between iTunes and BBEdit. And of the other three, there's very little between them – Pages, Nisus Writer Pro and Scrivener all show an admirable understanding of Mac conventions, with Scrivener fractionally doing so in the most pleasing manner.
Mellel 2/5
Microsoft Word 3/5
Nisus Writer Pro 5/5
OpenOffice.org 2/5
Pages 5/5
Scrivener 5/5
And the winner is - Pages 3.0.2
Two applications fall at the first hurdle in our race for the word processor crown. Mellel excels at document structuring and cross-referencing, but it's too idiosyncratic and clunky to recommend, and OpenOffice.org's standout property is its lack of a price tag. For a free application, it's mightily impressive, but you get what you pay for.
Next down – and it pains us to say this – is Scrivener. To be fair to Scrivener, it's not really a word processor and is the odd one out here. Strictly speaking, it's an authoring tool whose output should be sent to a word processor for final layout. Indeed, this is made clear in the software's blurb. So if your needs are purely text-based, it's the best application on test – the relatively low rating is purely down to its lack of layout capabilities and Office integration.
Of the final three, Microsoft Word is steadily (but slowly) improving. The interface is better aligned with Mac standards, the layout features are improved, its range of templates is decent, and the Home and Student edition of Office 2008 for Mac is surprisingly reasonably priced. The problem is that Nisus Writer Pro and Pages beat it in some key areas.
For pure writing, Nisus Writer Pro is the better application, and we wholeheartedly recommend it for such tasks. However, this group test was about a wider range of needs, and for that, Pages edges it, with its mix of efficiency, elegance, tools and features. As far as the interface goes, it may have the advantage of being privy to all things Apple, but in the age of the Leopard there's really no excuse for not integrating with Mac OS X.
Final verdict - Pages: 4/5
Pages edges it, but Nisus Writer Pro is a worthy runner-up and Scrivener comes recommended for bashing out text.
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HALESOWEN'S Jordanne Whiley won her first Paralympic medal in the wheelchair tennis bronze decider this afternoon.
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The freshest sushi around. Love all of the selections. Staff are knowledgable and make great suggestions. Atmosphere is fresh and clean. Always a top pick for my family.
We use to go to Keeper's a lot but we must have gone on an off night or something. It was about 7 on a Thursday. We walked in and were seated at a table. We sat at the table for 12 minutes, after I started timing, and no one said a word to us. So we stood up and... More
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Idk when they did this but man it sucks so bad now imo.. You can't click on a game in your game list anymore and go to the actual forum for it.. If you click go to forum it takes you to some DA discussion page that is nothing but ranting.. Usually the forum offers some help if you have issues but these pages don't even include the forum information. Just pointless BS.. Also steam just recently ninja added some garbage that only allows you to download one game at a time now.. Wow, way to destroy a working system steam.. FAIL.... To top it off they put just about anything up for sale and don't even give a shit about if it's working or not.. I bought this "I am alive" game and it won't even run, there is supposed to be controller support for it but it also doesn't work. Not that it matters because my gtx 680 system just gets the error "Error680 gtx not supported" then it stops installing. So I can't even launch the game.. Been like that for weeks.. Way to take a great system and turn it to crap steam.. Fire whoever is making these decisions..
So you're telling me you can click on a game in your game list still and it actually takes you to the forum like it should? It doesn't take you to some bogus "Discussion" page? I doubt it.. You telling me you can download multiple games at once still? I can't.. If you can and I can't.. well then I need to look at other possibilities like a possible corruption/virus.. Drove me nuts last night trying too. And of course you're not having the issue with I am alive, because you don't have it..
its always been when the game doesnt have its own forum it links to the general discssuion page. And check ur download settings. So stop bitching about nothing
Dude, there is no "download setting" that says "download only one game at a time" If you see one, please by all means point it out.. I checked my download settings.. Also it takes me to the discussion page ALWAYS.. Not just for that game. Even for games like LA Noire, which I know has a page.. here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1269 But steam takes mhe here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/110800/discussions/ Don't tell me I'm bitching when you have no idea what I'm talking about.. It's aggravating enough already I just paid for a non functioning game.. Then it's near impossible to get support for it.. Maybe I got a virus or something... hmm.. Time to run Mbam..
I've just tried a bunch of mine and the forum button works fine for me. Also just downloaded empire total war and borderlands 2 at the same time.. so i dunno what to tell u
Same here, Dota 2 test and Team Fortress (only games I can find which are not dl'ed on my Steam), works with both of them downloading at the same time. Clicking on Magicka brings me here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/42910/discussions/ Never used the forums, so I don't really care.
Mine sends me to the dumb Discussion and not the forum. sends to http://steamcommunity.com/app/8980/discussions/
Arrg.. wtf?! I found some malware and removed it but It's still not working right for me.. ugh.. I'm just going to reinstall it all I think.. idk what's going on here but something isn't right.. It could be something on my end.. But that forum links to games going to lame discussions page still exists for me.. I can't get to the main topics without manually tracking them down. I'm still stuck downloading one game at a time.. So I'm not the only one with the discussion page issue then? Well, at least I know I'm not the only one there then. thank you guys for the info. Sorry If I seem aggravated. I kind of am at this point..
Max. Cable/Fiber 10 mb, set to Miami and I live in Broward, Florida, about 30 min from Miami.. PS: What happened to "View store page"? I don't even see that anymore.. >< Man talk about working backwards. If they really made it this way, they totally f'd it up.. Yep, no more option to view store page either...
I can confirm that the forum link in steam games now link to the "new" community discussion section of the steam site and not the regular forums like they used to. However, I can download multiple games at once. But I believe that now depends on the load of the current server you are connected to(I'm US - Chicago) and your selected internet connection speed in the settings -> Downloads + Cloud. If the server you are connected to is highly loaded it will only allow you to download one thing at a time. It is still there, you can see it in Delta's screenshot even.
I can also conform that you can download as many games as you want at one time. I just started downloading some I had previously uninstalled and they all downloaded at the same time.
I don't get it.. I don't have the "view store page" thing or the ability for multiple downloads. something is definitely not right here.. His page looks totally different than mine as well.. That's not the "games list" page is it? On the "games list" page, you use to be able to right click the game name, then select "view store page" I can't do that anymore.. >< Is that beta steam or something? Ugh, I'm done with this for today. I'm just going to play something that works. Funny I have been bashing Origin lately but I'm going to go play BF3 because of how aggravated I am with steam right now.. Classic..
No, I'm going to try that now though, thanks.. Or I'll just reinstall and see what happens.. No more trying to fix steam for me today, feeling a headache coming, that's when I have to stop..XD
It is the Detailed view of the games list. I don't see the point in using the standard games list over the detailed view honestly. In the top right it says VIEW and has 3 buttons. The far left button is detail view, which is all anyone should use, the middle is the List view, which is stupid, and the right button is the Grid view which is a total waste.
have you tried all the games? maybe it's for this game only.. I just tried on mine: CSS, DNF, Portal 2, Crysis warhead, Half-life 2, Metro 2033, Crysis2, and I click on links, forums, and it goes to the forum...
I've got that problem with the forum pages too. It sends me to a page with a few discussion topics and a collage of screenshots of which only half of them will load. Most likely they're making some changes and just haven't updated the client itself yet. I just search 'game name' STEAM forum on google and the old forums are all still there. And I hear you on the indie game thing, that's what they are trying to address with the new STEAM greenlight. I haven't had any problems fortunately but I have a friend who buys a lot of indie games and he's been burned about 5 times now. You could always try contacting STEAM support about it, you might get some help from them. I've heard they've improved their support over the years when it comes to getting refunds for broken games.
Also to add to the confusion I have I am alive and the controller works. The only thing that bugs me is that the right stick doesn't work but thats been discussed to death in the net threads I've found. I believe theres discussion about a program called xpadder that lets you map the controller buttons.
Sometimes, if its an older game, you need to downgrade your audio bit rate, ie to 48,000 hz dvd or cd quality, as the game wont work if the bitrate audio is too high, thats what i ahve found anyways, mainly with older titles. I tried out the new steam thing too, and im disappointed about the download option too now.[it seems like i can only have 3 going at once, rest are suspended?] You could sign into steam on another comp and transfer the game over to your hdrive? or put a diff gpu in then try? Thats not good to hear!
The I Am Alive issue isn't anything related to Steam, blaming Steam for it is stupid. Ubisoft is responsible for making sure the game works. Plus there is a workaround for it to disable the hardware compatibility check.


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Various techniques such as Tai Chi, Yoga, self-hypnosis, and various forms of contemplative care can help people increase their ability to focus and concentrate. The resulting improvements can help athletes, students, surgeons, and others who will greatly benefit. In order to understand how this works, you have to ponder why our day-to-day mental activity makes it hard for us to concentrate.
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When someone participates in a calming activity such as those that I initially listed, the ACC tends to slow down. This provides increased capabilities for the many other areas to function. This is why someone who is stressed during an exam will often remember an answer minutes after their paper has been turned in.
There are two other considerations that must be discussed. One involves habituation, which is the brain's automatic habit forming tendency, and mastery, which implies that the more that we repeat a certain habit, the more it is strengthened in our brain. The habit of hyperactivating the ACC helps this destructive tendency become a very big part of someone's personality. The more that it is repeated, the thicker the associated neural networks become. This is what is called the "use it or lose it" syndrome. To counteract this problem, it is amazing how quickly a few minutes of meditation or Tai Chi can be to set a person on a healing path. I have noticed that the novice hypnosis patient will start detecting improvements after just one session. This is the same thing that Herbert Benson, MD, who coined the term "Relaxation Response," was talking about. Once a person starts calming the ACC, they begin noticing the positive impact of a brain that is being more fully utilized. This wonderment often turns into a lifelong habit.
As a young teen I used meditation to progress from being a marginal student to being a honor graduate at high school and as I pursued numerous university degrees. That was long before I knew what was happening to my brain. By quieting the ACC less mental anguish is encountered. This pleasurable condition further encouraged me to stay on this path.
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Bassfield won its second consecutive Class 2A State Championship Friday, and third in the last five years, with a 48-7 victory over Calhoun City at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson.
A slow start at Watkins Gymnasium did not help the cause of Hattiesburg High Friday night against visiting defending Class 5A state champion Callaway High.
The play that turned out to be the difference for Oak Grove in its Class 6A State Championship victory over Tupelo Friday wasn't even part of the playbook as recently as Friday morning.
Calvin and Alvin Moore wanted to give their father a special present for his birthday.
Jones County Junior College wide receiver Taylor Higgason received the Keith Daniels South Offense MVP Award for his performance in Thursday's 40th annual MACJC All-Star Football Classic.
Michael Craig made quite a splash last week on ESPN.
Buzzards and other scavengers picked the bones clean in less than 24 hours. And, in less than 24 more hours, even the bones were gone.
The Southern Miss women's basketball game scheduled against Central Arkansas for Saturday, Dec. 7, has been canceled because of inclement weather expected in the Conway, Ark., area.
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Donnie Tyndall didn't feel the need to go back to the drawing board after losing 69-38 at Louisville last week. Good call.
Join Hattiesburg American Southern Miss beat writer Jason Munz at noon for an hour-long live chat today about Golden Eagle football, including last week's win and what's ahead for the team.
Larry Dolan doesn't recall exactly when he first encountered Lance Mancuso, but he figures it was sometime around 1995, when he was starting his coaching career as an assistant at Forrest County AHS and Mancuso was on the staff at Lumberton High.
Each week, the Hattiesburg American sports staff and guest participants will predict the winners of high school, college and pro football games.
CLARKSDALE The Jones County Junior College Bobcats posted a pair of impressive victories Monday night at the Pinnacle in Clarksdale.
The North Forrest boys returned from the Thanksgiving break determined to get back on track after back-to-back losses.
While Brett Favre isn't sure what he'll be doing next year, he does know what he'll be doing on Friday: Trying to win a Mississippi high school state championship.
Southern Miss will welcome Morehead State to Reed Green Coliseum today in a game that Golden Eagle head coach Donnie Tyndall said is a big one for a variety of reasons.
Rivalry Week showed us all that is right with college football: the drama, the pageantry, the passion and so much more.
STARKVILLE After leading Mississippi State to its fourth-straight bowl game, senior left guard Gabe Jackson was named the 2013 C Spire Conerly Trophy winner.
Although his team has become a hardy perennial in the state football championships, Lance Mancuso probably summed up the feelings best. 'We're elated to be here,' said the Bassfield coach Monday at the Mississippi High School Activities Association's annual press conference that began the run-up to this weekend's Gridiron Classic.
The rest of the NFC better get ready to visit the Pacific Northwest in January. After Monday night's rout, the road through the NFC playoffs is almost certain to go through Seattle.
Todd Monken has made it a point to smell the roses since winning his first game as a head coach on Saturday at UAB.
The Saints' game against the Seahawks was marked on many fans' calendars as one of New Orleans' biggest games of the season.
When Southern Miss rolled back into Hattiesburg Saturday night, there was something missing.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall is the Southeastern Conference offensive player of the week while teammate Chris Davis shares special teams honors with Vanderbilt kicker Carey Spear.
In the bigger picture of the top two teams in the NFC meeting tonight and what could be at stake in the postseason, getting a victory would be of more importance for New Orleans.
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Blair Walsh's 34-yard field goal with 1:43 left in overtime gave the Minnesota Vikings a 23-20 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday after both teams missed kicks in the extra period.
Plenty of times, Wichita State looked vulnerable. The Shockers stayed unbeaten by doing enough things right at the finish.
Let Nov. 30, 2013, forever be known as the date the Southern Miss football program exorcised the demons that had haunted it since Christmas Eve 2011.
Kendrick Hardy ended his career and a fine career it was in style in Saturday's 62-27 win over UAB.
Few victories in the long and storied history of the Southern Miss football program will turn out to be as important as Saturday's at UAB.
Coming into this weekend's Lady Eagle Thanksgiving Classic, there were two areas in particular in which Southern Miss coach Joye Lee-McNelis wanted to see improvement: inside scoring and attacking zone defenses.
Southern Miss freshman quarterback Nick Mullens, in just his sixth collegiate start, threw for 370 yards in Saturday's 62-27 victory over UAB, which is a career high.
Freshman quarterback Nick Mullens didn't just lead Southern Miss to their first win since 2011. He did it in decisive fashion.
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What a difference Miss Wells could have made in Waynesville, Missouri in 1862, but, alas, she was just born in that year. She could have written a blistering editorial condemning the lynching of my ancestor by Union soldiers occupying Waynesville. But my ancestor was white; would she have grieved for him? Would a white Northerner-controlled St. Louis newspaper have even considered printing an aricle written by a black woman? I guess we will never know. Lynching was not a method of execution, whether justified or not, that was race biased. Slave trading was not a method of commerce, whether acceptable to society or not, that was race biased. In Robert Henry's "First With the Most", he reports that one of General Forrest's biggest and best customers was a black slave-trader from Kentucky who breezed through 1,200 slave transactions a year. Miss Wells needs a park that is dedicated to her history and Forrest Park needs to be left alone.
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Australian bonds firmed after US Congressional leaders offered President Barack Obama a temporary deal to raise the US debt ceiling.
Demand for fixed income assets rose during the morning after investors believed the White House was closer to reaching a deal which could avoid a debt default.
But 10-year Australian futures contract prices then retreated from their highs when it appeared American political leaders had reached no specific agreement.
''The very early headlines were that no agreement had been reached and we were quite firm on the back of that and the market seemed to get caught long,'' RBC Capital Markets fixed income strategist Michael Turner says. ''We've come back a tiny bit this afternoon but in general, it's been a fairly weak session after a fairly strong open.''
The December 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 95.910 (implying a yield of 4.090 per cent), up from 95.875 (4.125 per cent).
Starbucks plans to circulate petitions to customers across the United States urging lawmakers to reopen the partially closed government and avoid a looming default, the coffee chain's CEO Howard Schultz says.
Schultz says he is acting because of a "sad and striking realization that the American people have no platform with which to voice their frustration and outrage" over the shutdown, which began last week after Democrats rejected Republican efforts to undercut the Affordable Care Act.
The "voluntary, non-partisan" petition asks Congress and the White House to reopen the government, pay US debts on time, and pass a long-term bipartisan budget deal by the year-end.
Copies will be available in Starbucks stores, online, and in tear-out ads due to run today in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Washington Post.
(From an Australian perspective, it's hugely tempting to add this might give people a decent reason to go to Starbucks...)
Despite the Washington schmooze fest, big banks are still making contingency plans for a US default, the FT is reporting:
Big banks and investors are preparing contingency plans to deal with the potential impact on the $US5 trillion "repo market" of the US government missing a payment on its bonds, even as Republicans propose a six-week reprieve for the debt ceiling limit.
The repo market is a crucial financing area for banks, who post their holdings of Treasury securities as collateral for short-term loans from money market funds, insurers and other investors.
One senior banker said that three large repo lenders had asked his company, a big US investment bank, to start thinking about how it would amend the agreements for its repo deals to explicitly exclude shorter-term Treasury securities that are viewed as most vulnerable to the gridlock in Washington.
Reuters is also reporting that worst-case plans are being made, but in the bunkers of the Fed and Treasury:
US Treasury and Federal Reserve officials worried about the growing possibility of a catastrophic default are crafting contingency plans to mitigate the economic fallout if Congress fails to extend America's borrowing authority, a source familiar with the plans said.
The specifics of their planning remain unclear, but the source said an area of special focus is a key bank funding market known as the tri-party repurchase agreement, or repo, market, where banks often use Treasury bills, notes and bonds as collateral for short-term loans from other banks and big money market funds.
Markets are acting like we have already seen agreement on extending the debt ceiling through to November 22, says IG's Chris Weston:
"The fact that there was talk of pushing the debt ceiling out until November was one thing, however the market wasn't even really interested in whether the White House had agreed to any potential proposal; it took enough heart from the fact that the Republicans were simply playing ball."
The stock market has closed sharply higher, in its best showing in more than three months.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 jumped 83.8 points, or 1.6 per cent, to 5230.9, while the broader All Ords gained 82.6 points, or 1.6 per cent, to 5228.8.
Financials surged 1.9 per cent, materials added 1.6 per cent and consumer staples gained 0.8 per cent.
International finance chiefs welcomed signs US lawmakers are working to resolve their debt spat as they warned failure to do so would hurt the world economy.
Group of 20 officials meet in Washington today after House Republicans and the White House considered a short-term increase in the US debt limit to buy the time to negotiate a longer- lasting deal that allows America to dodge default.
''Everybody knows that a solution must be found, and I've got no doubt that it will be found,'' French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told Bloomberg Television's Sara Eisen in Washington. ''It would be of huge importance if no solution was found.''
The political stalemate that closed the US government for the last 10 days is casting a shadow over weekend talks of the International Monetary Fund, usually an event at which the US gives rather than receives advice. Policy makers arrived in the US capital yesterday fretting the impasse could end with the world's largest economy unable to cover its bills and returning to recession, hobbling worldwide expansion.
And while we mention China, the country's economic growth will exceed 7.5 per cent this year, deputy central bank governor Yi Gang is being quoted by Xinhua as saying, the latest expression of confidence from Beijing that the world's No. 2 economy is steadying.
Yi was quoted as saying on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting that growth could hit 7.6 per cent, and that the government had the nation's shadow banking system and its debt problems under control.
"I think for this year we're going to have certainly above 7.5 per cent growth rate," Yi was reported by Xinhua to have said in Washington. "Maybe 7.6 per cent (or) something like that."
After cooling in 12 of the past 14 quarters, China's economy is finally showing signs of stabilisation, helped in part by government measures to shore up growth, including lowering taxes for small firms and quickening infrastructure spending.
The dollar has touched a three-week high, ahead of a report tomorrow that is expected to show a gain in imports by China.
The Australian dollar is fetching 94.72 US cents after earlier touching 94.85, the strongest since September 19.
''The momentum has picked up and a lot of the fears have waned over Chinese growth,'' says Westpac currency strategist Sean Callow. ''There's no doubt that's been one of the reasons the Aussie dollar has been more resilient than in the past.''
Westpac's acquisition of Lloyd's Australian assets for $1.45 billion is a broadly neutral transaction, Nomura banking analyst Victor German says:
- As an alternative, they could have returned it to shareholders, which could also be a reasonably good way of deploying capital but they chose this option and I don't really see a problem with that.
- I think it is quite small within the scheme of things and broadly neutral to earnings vis-a-vis them returning cash to shareholders.
Westpac's chief financial officer Phil Coffey said at a briefing this morning that he did not believe the bank was taking on more risk through the deal.
"This entire portfolio represents less than 2 per cent of the loans of the Westpac Group. And so it's not going to move the dial from that perspective," Coffey said.
"These are businesses that we know well ... and we are very comfortable that the risk profile of these portfolios matching the risk profile of the existing Westpac Group."
China is poised to post its first slowdown in export growth in three months, a result that may understate the strength of demand after fake reports inflated figures in the year-earlier period.
Growth from last month through April 2014 will be ''depressed'' because of a high basis for comparison, Credit Agricole CIB says. Overseas shipments probably grew 5.5 per cent in September from a year earlier, according to a Bloomberg News survey ahead of tomorrow's customs-administration report in Beijing, down from August's 7.2 per cent and 9.8 per cent in September 2012.
The comparisons will complicate investors' ability to gauge the strength of any economic rebound after two manufacturing gauges trailed projections in September, limiting a recovery that began earlier in the quarter. Additional skepticism over trade figures builds on broader questions about the quality of Chinese data from gross domestic product to jobs.
''The trade numbers in the next couple of months, especially on the export side, will not be a good reflection of demand for Chinese products abroad or overall economic activity, because they will be artificially depressed from what happened a year earlier,'' said Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist and strategist at Credit Agricole.
We still don't have a solution to the US debt standoff and Washington is still in partial shutdown - so why the market optimism?
Mainly because the two sides are showing some movement, and because investors still can't believe US politicians will be irresponsible enough to let the country default on its debt.
Talks between lawmakers will continue as Republicans and Democrats seek a ''path forward'' on the debt ceiling, according to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
The White House said ''no specific determination was made'' during an initial 90-minute meeting between the parties in Washington.
''Both sides are trying to step away from that cliff next week,'' says Stephen Halmarick, head of investment markets research at Colonial First State Global Asset Management. ''People are assuming there will be some resolution before the 17th, but there's clearly a long way to go.''
Shares in stem cells group Mesoblast have surged back to their highest level in two months on news it will spend up to $100 million buying a suite of patents in the US which have the potential to deliver revenues sooner than expected.
Earlier today, it disclosed details of the purchase of a clutch of assets from US-based Osiris Therapeutic for an initial $US20 million in cash, with further payments in the future.
The purchase brings with it two products already in their final stage of clinical trials with approvals for launch in Canada and New Zealand, and with the potential to win clearance for launch in the key US market within two years.
Shares are up 5.1 per cent at $5.76.
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke have told their counterparts of the G20 group of economies that the stand-off over the US debt ceiling will be resolved by October 17, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.
The US Treasury has said it could quickly run out of cash if the cap on US borrowing authority is not raised by October 17.
"Colleagues from the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve have said that they hope to solve the issue soon. They said that the problem will be solved by the 17th," Siluanov told reporters after a dinner with G20 counterparts gathering on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank meetings.
"It's an important issue for everyone. Both Lew and Bernanke believe that these difficulties can be overcome soon," Siluanov added.
Siluanov didn't explain just how the stand-off between President Obama and the Republicans will be resolved.
AGL could face a fine of $50,000, after one of its door-to-door sales people ignored a Do Not Knock sign.
The Federal Court in Melbourne found the energy retailer and its agent CPM Australia breached Australian consumer law by ignoring the sign.
The breach occurred in 2011 when an uninvited salesman contracted by CPM knocked on the front door of a South Australian home to sell energy on behalf of AGL.
Despite a Do Not Knock sign on the front door, he remained on the premises and knocked.
Justice John Middleton found the message on the door was clear and sufficient to communicate a request to leave.
If you're interested in having a look at the full speech on foreign bribery cases from ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft, here's the link.
Jewellery chain Michael Hill International has increased revenue 8.7 per cent in the first quarter as sales up in its largest market, Australia, and jumping in Canada.
However, momentum slowed in New Zealand.
Sales climbed to $98.5 million ($NZ112.5m) in the three months ended September 30, from $90.6 million in the year earlier period, the Brisbane-based company said in its first statement since shifting to Australian dollar reporting on October 3.
Sales at stores open more than 12 months rose 3.8 per cent to $91.7 million, it said.
Excluding the impact of conversion to Australian dollars, sales at Australian stores increased 5.5 per cent to $64.8 million, New Zealand sales slipped 6.1 per cent to $NZ21.3 million ($18.86 million), Canadian sales rose 25 per cent to $Can12.4 million ($12.61m) and US sales slipped 4.2 per cent to $US2 million ($2.12m) reflecting the closure of one store, the company said.
The ASX200 is on track for its biggest once day gain since July 2nd this year when it surged 2.6 per cent.
ANZ is keeping its standard variable mortgage rate unchanged at 5.88 per cent, the bank announced this afternoon.
ANZ sets its cash rate on the first Tuesday of each month. Last week, the Reserve Bank kept rates on hold at a record low of 2.5 per cent.
Western Australia's nickel miners believe the industry has hit rock bottom, and will be buoyed by a surge in demand by the end of the decade.
But as weakness in the nickel price persists, producers and mine developers might be in for some more pain until a full recovery gets underway.
The heads of three major nickel companies told a conference in Perth this week that nickel shortages were expected to boost the metal's price between 2015 and 2019, as production dries up and Chinese demand increases.
Poseidon chief executive David Singleton said the sector had been on its knees in recent years, but that was about to change.
''We've probably seen the worst of it,'' Mr Singleton said.
However, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the recovery would arrive, he said.
The completion of two recent offshore deals would soon take 33,000 tonnes of nickel out of the market, he said, and significantly reduce the annual global surplus of around 60,000 to 80,000 tonnes.
Office and industrial properties group Dexus and a Canadian pension fund are proposing a $2.3 billion buy-out of Commonwealth Property Office Fund (CPA).
Under the indicative, non-binding proposal, Dexus and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board would acquire $3.7 billion worth of Australian prime office space.
CPA shareholders are being offered cash and Dexus stapled securities at $1.15 a share, which is above the $1.05 value of Dexus shares.
Dexus holds a 14.9 per cent stake in CPA but is seeking to buy all of the group to make it an unlisted company, under the proposed consortium with the Canadian pension fund.
CPA, a real estate investment trust, listed in the Australian Securities Exchange in April 1999 and is managed by Colonial First State Global Asset Management.
Its share price has risen three cents to $1.185.
Fairfax Media will stop printing BRW magazine from December but offer BRW content for free online, as the brand transitions into a digital property.
Fairfax Media group director of business media Sean Aylmer met with BRW staff at midday on Friday to make the announcement.
In an email circulated to Fairfax staff, Mr Alymer said the move was part of the transformation of Fairfax Media.
"Fairfax Media is focused on quality content and working with our audiences to ensure they receive our content in a way that works for them," he said.
Fairfax shares are up 1.9 per cent to 53 cents.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's goal of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China within a year is entirely achievable, according to West Australian Premier Colin Barnett.
In China this week to promote WA's strong economic relationship with the Asian superpower, Mr Barnett said he was being told only minor details stood in the way of a deal between the two nations - and the Chinese were very keen.
''It is realistic to think it could be done within 12 months, because as I understand it there are only a couple of details to be resolved. China has indicated to me several times this year they support a free trade agreement,'' Mr Barnett told Fairfax radio.
''It is being driven primarily by Australia, but there are only a couple of minor issues (in the way).''
Concluding his appearance at the APEC Summit in Bali this week, Mr Abbott said he would be disappointed if such an agreement could not be reached within a year, citing New Zealand's agreement with China as a template.
''Lets face it, the Kiwis, have had a series of agreements, including one with China, which have been very good for their economy,'' Mr Abbott said.
Following a week of meetings, including with the bosses of Baosteel, Mr Barnett said a free trade agreement would provide opportunities for small businesses across Australia to expand.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission head Greg Medcraft has defended the corporate watchdog's handling of foreign bribery cases, describing its enforcement record as "solid".
Mr Medcraft said recent reports about ASIC's alleged lack of speed or action over bribery allegations involving Australian firms, such as those raised by Fairfax Media, were "ill-informed" and that enforcing such cases was a "contested process that takes time and resources".
"It is not always simple and rarely swift. Despite this, we are focused on taking enforcement action when we need to. We do not shy away from big cases," Mr Medcraft said at a speech in Melbourne today.
Bega Cheese will not lift its takeover offer for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) for now, despite a higher competing bid from Canadian suitor Saputo.
Bega said today that it intends to proceed with its offer to WCB shareholders, but ''does not presently intend to increase its offer consideration although it reserves the right to do so''.
Bega said its offer of 1.2 Bega shares and $2 in cash, which valued WCB at $360.4 million on October 10, represented excellent value and gave WCB shareholders the opportunity to participate in an exciting future of a combined Bega Cheese and WCB.
Bega said it was comfortable with its present offer to merge with WCB based on its view that a strong Australian-owned and listed dairy company would create value and improve returns for shareholders and dairy farmers.
''Some Warrnambool Cheese and Butter shareholders will prefer to be shareholders of an Australian dairy company and support Bega Cheese's vision for the combined group and the synergies that will come from it,'' Bega said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
The Australian government has sold $800 million of June 15, 2016, Treasury bonds.
The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), which conducts bond auctions on behalf of the government, said the bonds were sold for a weighted average yield of 2.9456 per cent.
The sale attracted bids totalling $3.425 billion, giving a coverage ratio of 4.28.
Oz Forex had a strong debut, with the first trade at $2.59, well up from the initial public offer price of $2 a share.
It subsequently settled at $2.55, in active dealings.
US Republican Representative Pete Sessions says he is hopeful House of Representatives Republicans and the Obama administration can strike a deal by Friday (US time, Saturday AEDT) on legislation raising the US debt limit and funding the federal government.
Sessions, chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, told Reuters that over the next 15 hours or so, the White House and House Republicans will work on "defining parameters to see if we can make progress."
If that progress is achieved, the two sides would then try to complete a deal, possibly on Friday.
While Democrats and Republicans seem to finally be talking to each other, there is still a lot of work to be done, even though markets look to be acting like the worst of the debt-ceiling crisis is over.
"If you look across the different asset classes you can see that bonds haven't really sold that heavily. In fact bonds have remained relatively well bid," said Credit Suisse analyst Damien Boey.
"It kind of suggests that eventually they expect this debt-ceiling impasse to be resolved. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that the Fed will be there to do its bonds purchases again, if the US government resumes issuing again and borrowing, which completes a little circuit for Fed money to flow out into the rest of the economy."
But Mr Boey said he wasn't comfortable with the market prediction that everything will turn out rosy.
"I don't know whether the bullish entirely justified, but that is what I think people are looking at We've got to consider that we basically have no economic data at the moment from America to judge anything."
"For now the market seems quite comfortable to continue buying equities, believe in the cyclical growth story, but I'm not sure when the data comes out that it will justify this position."
The local market has maintained its hot start even though a deal to raise the debt-ceiling hasn't gone through.
Credit Suisse analyst Damien Boey said investors are getting a little ahead of themselves if they think everything to go through smoothly.
"Neither side wants to see the US government default, as much as they want to maybe trade a few blows and blame each other for what's actually happening, at the end of the day both sides recognise that it's not an acceptable outcome.
"That part is fine, but I think what the market is not factoring is that once of the preconditions for getting a deal done here, if it's not Obamacare that gets cut, it will be something else that has to get cut, so there's going to some sort of fiscal tightening coming through as a result of this," he said.
Stem cell group Mesoblast is to outlay up to $US85 million on a US acquisition as it ramps up its product development pipeline and broadens its suite of patents.
It is to acquire the stem cell assets of Osiris Therapeutic for an initial $US20 million, although the final price could reach $US85 million depending on progress in developing the acquired products, with provision for future royalty payments as well.
Like Mesoblast, Osiris has been developing therapeutic products that use so-called mesenchymal stem cells which can help body tissue heal large wounds, repair cartilage and muscle tissue.
Osiris has been producing these stem cells in the US since 1999, and also has a joint venture in Japan.
UGL's engineering chief Russell Waugh has stepped down from his position because of his alleged connection to former employer Leighton Holdings' bribery scandal.
Engineering and property services company UGL said in a statement that it had agreed with Mr Waugh that he would step down immediately.
He left construction giant Leighton in August, 2012, when he was managing director of its joint venture with Indian contracting giant Welspun.
His departure last year coincided with Leighton's offshore business's former head Peter Cox leaving the group amid a corruption and bribery scandal involving its overseas operations.
Britain's Royal Mail will be valued at $5.6 billion when it launches on the stock market in a controversial part-privatisation.
The offer price was set at 330 pence per share, which was at the top of the expected range of between 300-330 pence, it said in a statement.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted the privatisation to be a piece of ''popular capitalism'' that would also allow Royal Mail to invest in the business.
More than 690,000 members of the public, or almost 95 percent of people who applied, will pick up stock.
However, retail investors applying for more than 10,000 worth of shares will get none after the offer was seven times over-subscribed.
Some of the early movers:
- Westpac shares are up 0.7 per cent to $32.70 on the back of news that it is set to buy Lloyds Banking Group's Australian assets for $1.45 billion.
- Carsales shares are down 2.9 per cent to $10.82. Michael West's piece in today's paper outlines how the big automakers are pulling their ads from the car selling site.
Seven West Media has announced that its market leading television network, Seven, has signed a new affiliation agreement with its regional broadcast partner Prime Media stretching through until June 2019.
Seven is the last of the three commercial broadcasters to re-sign its regional partner. Nine upset its rivals earlier this year in a failed attempt to poach Ten's affiliate, Southern Cross Media. Nine and Southern Cross were also negotiating a potential merger if the 75 per cent reach rule was abolished, which Ten and Seven then opposed.
If the rule is abolished, a rash of deals is expected between the metro networks and their regional affiliates. Nine has got ahead of the game, buying the Perth and Adelaide television stations from its affiliate WIN, and other deals are expected to follow.
Here's how the sectors have opened:
- Consumer staples: +0.8%
- Consumer discretionary: +1.1%
- Energy: +1.1%
- Financials: +1.5%
- Health: +1.4%
- Gold -0.1%
- Materials: +1.3%
- Industrials: +1.6%
US President Barack Obama may have rejected a Republican proposal to extend the debt-ceiling for a further six weeks, but investors are taking something positive out of a bad situation.
RBS Morgans senior trader Luke McElwaine said he thought the market's strong start was factoring in the rejection by President Obama, but was holding onto optimism of a deal.
"Some of the talk coming overnight of working out a deal, that's what the market wants to see because it has been a bit of a stalemate up until now."
He said once there was an agreement, be it today, or next week, big investors are likely to return to the market.
"I think there is buying support for the first time in a while, with a bit more confidence, the market could break that 5300 level convincingly."
Despite all the uncertainty surrounding the political standoff, the Australian market has generally been able to hold its ground.
"We've come off a little bit, but it's been very resilient, there was been a lot of buying on those down days and I've been encouraged by that," said Mr McElwaine.
"Today, let's assume that rejection is factored in, there's people buying this market, they want to buy this market"
Etihad Airways says it has nearly doubled its stake in Virgin Australia to 19.9 per cent as it continues to deepen their strategic partnership.
The national airline of the United Arab Emirates, which operates from its hub in Abu Dhabi, said it had now reached the stake level approved by the Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board.
Chief executive James Hogan said, in a statement, the increased stake reflects Etihad's commitment to the Australian market and to the 10-year strategic partnership it concluded with Virgin Australia in 2010.
IG analyst Stan Shamu looks at what could happen on the ASX today.
It will be a day where cyclical names outperform as they respond to favourable risk appetite. BHP's ADR is pointing to a 1.4% rise to 35.10 and we expect to see similar gains in the other iron ore names after iron ore climbed 1%. Some metals were actually weaker on US dollar strength but I don't feel this will necessarily impact the performance of miners today. Gold names might come under further pressure after the precious metal extended its losses below 1,300.
Outside of the mining names, keep an eye on Bank of Queensland which reported an impressive set of earnings yesterday with a very good turnaround story. The stock charged through $11 yesterday and is now up nearly 50% for the calendar year. There is also a switching trade from Bendigo & Adelaide Bank into BOQ taking place which will help underpin the stock in the near term. We are likely to see some favourable broker changes also supporting the stock in the near term.
Despite the news from the US, the ASX has opened strongly, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 jumping 65.5 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 5212.6. The broader All Ords has risen 64 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 5210.1.
As news of Barack Obama rejecting the debt ceiling proposal filters through, a look at the US futures indexes may give us an idea of what will happen today locally.
The Dow futures are at -24 while the S&P futures is at -4.5.
Michael West reveals there has been a big shakeup on carsales.com.au, with prominent auto makers such as Holden, Nissan, Volkswagen and Honda instructing dealers to remove new car listings off Australia's dominant online site for car buyers.
A research report by stockbroker Taylor Collison, which has been collecting data from Carsales.com.au, Carsguide and GumTree since September last year, has identified a 28 per cent drop in new car (in stock) listings since then.
The listings peaked five months ago and both carsales and carsguide have shown a similar trend, which suggests market share has not been a decisive variable. Used car sales continue apace. In new cars, however, the manufacturers have moved to protect profit margins from increasingly savvy internet shoppers scouting for a bargain.
This evidence of a standoff between the manufacturers and the online verticals has not arisen solely from the hard data on listings. The analysts from Taylor Collison also saw a memo from Honda three months ago that advised dealers they would be blocked from uploading new cars after a certain deadline. They began talking to dealers and soon realised other manufacturers were considering similar moves.
Westpac is set to buy Lloyds Banking Group's Australian assets for $1.45 billion, its largest acquisition since its takeover of St George Bank five years ago.
The agreement with Lloyd, which is exiting the Australian market, will see the Australian bank acquire its asset finance business CFAL and its corporate loan portfolio BOSI.
The news of a potential deal had been warmly welcomed by investors overnight, with stocks on Wall Street surging, recovering a hefty portion of their losses since the partial government shutdown began.
The developments suggest ''both sides appreciate the gravity of a default'', said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank.
''It's not worth sending our country into a tailspin over ideological differences. I think investors are breathing a sigh of relief.''
Things have changed with the latest developments, but talks are continuing in Washington.
NY Times is reporting Barack Obama has rejected the Republican Party's proposal for the US to avoid going into default , as it would not have ended the partial government shutdown.
A big day was in store for the ASX, but it could all fizz out now.
No deal: John Boehner departs the Capitol after Barack Obama rejected the Republicans' proposal. Photo: AP
The Australian market looks set to open sharply higher as traders reacted strongly to signs of a deal in Washington to avoid a US debt default.
What you need2know:
- SPI futures up 67 points to 5,200.
- AUD fetching 94.58 US cents, 92.93 yen, 69.89 euro cents, 59.19 pence
- On Wall St, Nasdaq +0.8%, Dow Jones +0.2%, S&P500 +0.4%
- In Europe, Eurostoxx +2.2%, FTSE100 +1.5%, CAC +2.2%, DAX +2%
- Spot gold falls 1% to $US1293.18 an ounce
- Brent oil soars 2.6% to $US111.91 per barrel
- Iron ore gains 0.9% to $US133.00 per tonne
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