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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... Statistics releases April's labour force figures and March's overseas arrivals and departures numbers. The West Australian budget will be brought down on Thursday. In equities news, National Australia Bank is expected to post first half results, while ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... share market is lower due to falls on overseas markets and uncertainty about what will be contained in next week's Federal budget. "The federal budget is having a big dampening impact on buying in the market, and until that is done and dusted there's ...

Higher pension age to drive increase in early super releases

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... standard life expectancy metrics and receive the pension for 30-40 years. The looming pressure this will place on the national budget will be immense, hence the policy response to lift the pension age. But 3 million trade workers and labourers is nevertheless ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... lower interest rates should it become necessary. And it might... be necessary... soon enough, particularly if next week's Budget turn out to be as tough as Tony and Joey telegraphed it to be. Already, consumer and business confidence have slowed in April ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... thinks it would do. They would do nothing - at least, not this month. Not until they know for sure how tight the Federal May Budget would be. I don't even want to join the discussion about the recommendations of the National Commission of Audit that ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... today are both offensive and repugnant. The Treasurer will not let this distract him from the important task of putting the Budget together. As the matter is now in the hands of lawyers no further comment can be made." Financial Standard also asked NAB ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that he plans to raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035 in the upcoming Budget. Confirmation came in an interview with Alan Jones on 2GB radio in which the two men were discussing the Commission of Audit's ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... sector to meet "the ballooning costs of disability welfare in Australia to reduce the increasing pressure on the Federal Budget," Brogden said. "Life insurance can reduce the long-term public sector costs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and ...

Port of Newcastle leased for $1.75bn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... $1.2 billion will go in the NSW government's dedicated infrastructure fund, Restart NSW. Baird said of the deal: "In my Budget speech last year I said Newcastle's time has finally come, and I meant it. "This momentous result exceeds all expectations ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
No surprise, no surprise. Another month... another US$10 billion off the Fed's asset shopping budget and more stressing that interest rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's ...