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Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... eradicating the budget deficit through a medium-term strategy of spending cuts. At a cost of $40 billion per annum - or 10% of GDP - the Age Pension is the largest part of government expenditure; ahead of defense, hospitals and schools, Hockey said. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data also showed that China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 7.4 per cent in the first three months of the year, higher than the market forecast of 7.3 per cent. Locally, in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... despite BHP Billiton announcing an upbeat production report. Most investors are hanging out for China's gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, due out later on Wednesday, Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said. "The market is mildly higher ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... surplus of US$7.71 billion in March... and how is a trade surplus inputted in the National Accounts? It is an addition to GDP. Overlayed in all these good news are the central banks' monetary policy actions, "forward guidance" and what have you's. The ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... advanced economies tracked by the International Monetary Fund". (AFR) Australia's budget deficit had widened by about 1% of our GDP since the IMF last peered into our accounts last October 2013. Dear oh dear oh dear! But wait... there's more! According ...

ISA attacks financial 'short-termism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... short-term approach to investment is leading to a "destruction of fundamental value" and declining levels of investment to GDP outside the mining sector, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). In its submission to the Financial System Inquiry ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... were some fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual rate of 2.4% previously to 2.6% but this was less than expectations for an upgrade ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... economy in the third quarter of 2013 that followed a 0.10% contraction in the previous quarter. And the I of the BRICs? India's GDP growth has also come down from the heady 10%-13% plus annual rate back in 2010/11 to just 4.7% as at the December quarter ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... negative connotations for it connotes that the PBOC and China's leaders might be becoming increasingly worried that the 7.5% GDP growth target is at risk. This being that the much-speculated China slowdown is true and that the government is becoming ...

VC capital raising crash 75pct in 2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... economic threat is that "private equity and venture capital funds invest in businesses that account for around 4% of Australia's GDP, who in turn support over 500,000 jobs across almost every industry sector of our economy," AVCAL's chief executive ...