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Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Financial Services and Superannuation, Mathias Cormann. "Mr Shorten has again failed to explain why Dr Ken Henry, now the Prime Minister's private adviser, got it wrong and why Labor thinks it has got it right with its push to reduce take home pay for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... debt-stricken Greece's government would survive a key confidence vote late Tuesday. Markets were now looking to see if Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou can push through the additional austerity measures that European leaders and investors deem ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... Greece has moved a step closer to receiving a second round of bailout money to tackle the nation's spiralling debt after Prime Minister George Papandreou's government survived a confidence vote in parliament 155 votes to 143. IG Markets market strategist ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... closest to the blast zone - was up bigger time. All this because - according to reports -- financial markets now expect Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou to survive a no confidence vote. Yippee! Hip, hip. If he does, he could then push through ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... points, or 2.19 per cent, to 2,687.26 points. Investors were optimistic about the situation in Greece, where the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou was facing a late-night confidence vote that had the future of Europe's finances hanging in ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... July. They want to see whether Greece's private creditors would 'voluntarily' roll-over the country's debts and whether Prime Minister George Papandreou would be able to drive through another round of austerity measures amounting to a,-28 billion and ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... spectacular stock market crashes happen. The US is deteriorating, Europe is imploding, China is tightening and Australian Prime Minister Gillard's approval rating plummets to an all-time low - lower than Caesar's, sorry I mean Kevin, before the political ...

Dutch pension fund set for major reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... responsibility on the board of funds, while retirement age will rise, after the government closed on a reforms agreement. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the government, employers and unions had reached agreement, which will result in pension ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... was formerly BNY Mellon Asset Management's global investment strategist. His Canberra credentials are that he was former Prime Minister Paul Keating's principal adviser between 1985 and 1993, before which he was senior executive in the Commonwealth Treasury. ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... in contrast with previous economic contractions in 1991, 2000 and 2008 where collapsing domestic demand was seen as the prime driver behind the period's GDP shrinkage. But for all the "feel good" rhetoric and commentaries, the Australian stock market ...