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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after an almost flat end to trading in on Wall Street and a fall in metals prices. At 0651 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,262. The stock market in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Australian share market is lower, following a share sell-off on Wall Street overnight. The local market is taking its lead from the US, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.4 per cent amid weaker construction figures and confirmation of ...

Cbus reveals executive pay

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... directors, Cbus chair Steve Bracks was the highest paid, receiving $131,335. Remuneration for directors ranged from this figure to as low as $19,000. By way of comparison, in 2013 AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk earned $611,000, while Sunsuper ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to again open lower after Wall Street lost more than one per cent following mixed US economic data. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,287. Locally, in economic ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower amid ongoing Aussie dollar weakness, a fall in commodity prices and soft leads from US equities. Wall Street stocks finished lower overnight after a monthly US consumer confidence index fell for the first ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after disappointing economic data, including a big drop in US consumer confidence. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 33 points ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Further falls in the iron ore price and weak leads from Wall Street are weighing on the Australian share market. The local market is lower after a solid rise on Tuesday, with bargain hunting buyers and following better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... was 39, while for women it was 69. On average about 11% of death claims for men were suicide-related, while for women the figure was closer to 4%. Interestingly, the rates of mental illness related claims in New South Wales and the ACT were around half ...