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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... $46.10, ANZ gaining 16 cents to $27.38 and Wesptac lifting 12 cents to $23.32. US markets were closed on Monday for the Labor Day public holiday.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
The Australian share market may nudge upward in the absence of a lead from US markets, which were closed for the Labor Day holiday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contact was up three points at 5,147. Today, broadcaster ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... Today, gaming group Tattersall's Ltd and property group S8 release their annual results. US markets are closed Monday for the Labor Day public holiday. The Australian stock market finished softer on Friday, lacking lustre as much-speculated takeover ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... But trading was light on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, with many traders taking the week off before the US Labor Day holiday on September 4, the unofficial end of the summer season in the United States. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Kiwisaver allows contributions to be diverted into mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... coodinated by the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue (their tax department) and is thought to be where the Australia Labor Party got the idea to have the Australian Taxation Office operate as a national super choice clearing house. Alex Dunnin ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... service housing and personal debt had been adequately offset by the rising incomes families were earning on investments. The Labor opposition has noted that mortgage payments now accrue to a larger proportion of household disposable income than in 1989 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... in Australia. Under the 457 visa scheme such immigrants are allowed limited working conditions for up to four years. The Labor opposition said that in 2004-05 only 141 of the 49,000 457 visa holders were mining and materials engineers, 22 were toolmakers ...

Budget super consultations attract 3,500 submissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... missing from the [formal] correspondence from 1,500-plus businesses, individuals and organisations is any submission from the Labor Party. The Labor Party's inaction on this issue demonstrates an appalling lack of interest in a major policy initiative ...

Sherry wins Labor votes with simple super plan

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
Labor Shadow Minister for Superannuation, Nick Sherry, impressed audiences at the annual IFSA conference on the Gold Coast on Friday, unveiling a plan for combined pension and superannuation forecasts. If voted in at the next election Labor would implement ...

Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... unveiling a plan to rebuild Australia's dwindling export culture, starting with financial services. Rudd said that if voted in Labor would push Australia as an Asian hub of funds management and investment services, and has created an Australian Funds ...