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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... lost 183.37 points to 18,842.99. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket recovered from early losses, continuing to tread water just below recent record highs. The NZSX-50 benchmark index closed down 1.55 points at 3853.47, 13 points above its session ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... of the most polluted cities in the world are in China, China leads the world by a large margin with three times as many water pollutants as its nearest competitor the US whose economy is presently five and a half times the size of the Chinese one. China ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Consumers waste up to $2 billion per year in fees on unnecessary multiple accounts and it's time something was done about it, CHOICE said in watershed report released yesterday. The report by the peak consumer group CHOICE, The Super Secret: how multiple ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... has given the federal government the upper hand of legal authority in matters relating to health, universities, energy and water utilities and the power to govern corporate activity as tested via the recent challenge to the Work Choices legislation by ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... Australian States of South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland have agreed to urgently introduce trading of water in order and to spend hundreds of millions on water conservation projects in the face of the current drought that has about ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... wages, wealth and economic equation& is the 9 per cent SG." Despite his passion for boosting savings, Keating poured cold water on the idea that the Future Fund was a solution to Australia's unfunded superannuation liabilities. Keating said national ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

... education (4.9 per cent) and transportation (4.6 per cent). In particular, the cost of fruit; property rates and charges; and water and sewerage costs have gone up during the past three months. Michelle Baltazar

Don't bury reverse mortgages in regulation: Martin

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... added that if the obsession with regulation and reverse mortgage doom and gloom continued the industry would be dead in the water, denying seniors an important option for financing their retirement. "I think there is a huge risk that we are drowning ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... greatest contributors to the rise over the quarter were fruit (20.5 per cent), property rates and charges (5.6 per cent) and water and sewerage (4.7 per cent), while prices heading down were vegetables (-5.3 per cent) and pharmaceuticals (-5 per cent). ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... this time last year largely as a result of the domestic component related to building construction, electricity, gas and water and real estates. The intermediate stage shows that there was a quarterly change of 1.3 per cent which translated to a 6.7 ...