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Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... many to expect instantaneous results in all facets of their lives. Push a button and dinner is served. Push a button and night becomes day. Click a mouse and your reservation to the flicks, the opera, the airlines or hotel accommodation at the other ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... anyone complained. But its announcement to marginally lift the pension preservation age is creating a furore. In Tuesday night's Federal Budget, the government confirmed that due to increasing longevity the pension preservation age would progressively ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... than one percent overnight and the Dow increased by 0.6 per cent. Dead cat bouncers would undoubtedly point out that last night's reversal was small and therefore, unconvincing. So small that it has not completely wiped off the 4.9 per cent lost by the ...

Pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... than expected economic and financial data. One falling leaf does not make an autumn. Economic reports out of the US last night were indeed bad and gave the market reason to question whether the 'green shoots' were beginning to decay. The US Commerce ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... share market was more than half a per cent lower at noon, as the markets digested the federal budget handed down on Tuesday night. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was 34.9 points lower, or by 0.9 per cent, at 3842.3, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Top 10 budget quotes

... through a record haul of budget commentary to highlight the industry's thinking on the government's budget announcement last night. "Commonsense has prevailed with the non-concessional contribution cap remaining unchanged." - Martin Breckon, technical ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... on superannuation misses the political point and erodes their credibility especially following a statement by ASFA last night that said the new measure will only impact less than 4 per cent of people who salary sacrifice into super. Indeed the new limits ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was more than 1.5 per cent lower at noon in quiet trading ahead of Tuesday night's federal budget. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was 64.1 points lower, or by 1.63 per cent, at 3861.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
It's Budget lock-up day tonight in Canberra. The day when the who's who of the Australian economics and the reporting world are held incommunicado for six hours until the grand unveiling of the Government's plan for the future. The official rationale ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... market is expected to open weaker after a fall on Wall Street, before attention turns to the federal budget due on Tuesday night. At 0714 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 51 points lower at 3,880. In economic ...