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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... market eased on Wednesday but its performance was seen as a relatively good effort given that United States stocks fell the night before. The NZSX-50 index closed down 13.16 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 2711.55 and was little changed for much of the ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... US, another domino appears to be on the brink of falling. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by 75 basis points last night, taking its benchmark lending rate down to a half century low of 1.5 per cent as it tries to forestall a recession in its own ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... be lost, more homes will be lost, until all the excesses are purged. Come Christmas 2008, all we can hope for is a silent night.

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the big opportunity is that transforming superannuation ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the big opportunity is that transforming superannuation ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... point interest rate reduction early this week, central banks in the land of Europa executed their own move towards zero last night. The European Central Bank turned on the aggression, slashing interest rates by 75 basis points to 2.5 per cent after cuts ...

Macfarlane calls for a new regulatory regime

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... former governor of the Reserve Bank, Ian Macfarlane, said yesterday. Delivering the Lowy Institute lecture in Sydney last night, Macfarlane said that by his reckoning the era of financial deregulation had resulted in eight "significant shocks" and the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
The Australian stockmarket remained strong at noon, extending the morning's positive open, following gains in European stocks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 84.5 points, or 2.36 per cent, at 3672.5, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Prime Minister and the Treasurer conceded yesterday that the budget could go into a 'temporary deficit.' And as surely as night follows day, the Opposition opposed. The idea of the other Party spending the hard earned savings they accumulated during ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... bank - Citigroup. More likely, the Australian stock market was just following the random walk on Wall Street, where the night before the S&P 500 Index surged by 6.5 per cent. Investors are supposed to be rational. But it could be a bit of a stretch to ...