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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... at a weekend election. Having gone into the election seeking a stable political base to tackle the nation's massive debt, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government lost its Upper House majority in its first electoral test since he took office. Kan's Democratic ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... structure of the tax in place but saves most of its benefits, especially the SG uplift. Driving the negotiations were Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and senior executives ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... financial year is giving it a bit of a belting. "With the mining stocks, we're still hoping that the government and the new prime minister will come up with a workable tax proposal in the short term which hopefully will provide better sentiment for that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... uncertainty to the market. "We're in election mode; that's part of the situation now," Mr Bishop said. "I think the new prime minister will probably want to get this election out of the way fairly quickly while the polls are up. "Markets always get a ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... Beijing demanded that reference to its exchange rate in the draft communiquA(C) "be removed from the final version". Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper couldn't have put it any clearer, "Here is the tightrope we must walk. To sustain the recovery ...

Raising SG must remain despite RSPT outcome: Brogden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... decision they make on the RSPT must not affect their ability to deliver superannuation increases to Australians." He said new prime minister Julia Gillard must work quickly with the mining industry to achieve a resolution on the RSPT - highlighting the ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... pages. Now the speculation starts. Well...it already did yesterday -- the very first minute that news of Krudd's demise as Prime Minister and JG's ascent to the throne. "Experts" of all shapes and persuasion, men and women on the streets and even schoolgirls ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... negative news from the US housing market. Resource stocks gained ground on an early surge, with the market assuming a change of prime ministership may be bring some resolution to the resources super profits tax (RSPT) issue. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The Australian sharemarket has firmed on news that Julia Gillard will be Australia's new prime minister. At 1207 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.9 points, or 0.62 per cent, at 4514, as Julia Gillard made her first statement after being ...

RMBS market low risk and high return: Aberdeen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... securities are pretty much bullet proof. You'd need to see mortgage providers default, house price falls of 40 per cent on prime Australian mortgages and, on top of that, a foreclosure rate of 15 per cent," he said. "There's no need to go into the riskier ...