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Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
The New Zealand Retirement Commissioner has recommended an increase in the country's retirement age to 67 but the proposal has been rejected by Prime Minister John Key. The recommendation was made in the three-yearly Retirement Income Policy Review ...

Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
"Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus Lane..." The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) played Santa to Australians all by announcing no increase in interest rates yesterday. It may have to lift the official cash rate from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
The Australian market is receiving positive leads from offshore trading overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0705 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 12 points higher at 4,745. In economics news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by miners following a solid overnight session for metals prices. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22.7 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,711.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

More to retirement than super: planner

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
A large-scale retirement survey by AXA backs previous research that majority of Gen Xers wait until the last minute before they start saving for retirement, but one planner makes suggestions on how thirty-somethings can start saving now without digging ...

CFD newcomer backs tighter ASIC rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Capital CFDs tackles Australia's contracts-for-difference (CFD) market despite ASIC tightening its regulations. Australia's CFD market, reportedly the second largest globally, was hit hard during the GFC with many investors exposed to the drawbacks ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... and the Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
The Australian market is expected to open slightly higher after receiving subdued leads from offshore trading. On the ASX 24 at 0626 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was nine points higher at 4,708. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
The Australian share market retreated from its morning high to trade in a flat range by noon, with materials and energy stocks buffering modest falls in financials. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 0.6 points, or 0.01 per cent, lower ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... last Saturday morning. Their overriding theme was that, the soft jobs data means that more money would be dropping out of Big Ben's helicopter. It's also provided a case for the extension of the Bush tax cuts which end at the end of the year. That's ...