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Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
International media reports on the 2014/15 federal budget reflect concerns that cuts will hit consumer confidence in an economy that is doing better than most of its counterparts. "Australia's first budget under Tony Abbott was either brave or foolhardy," ...

FSI to focus on the technology challenge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Technology change and the challenges it represents to businesses is one of the main items that the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) will be looking at over the next weeks. "Technology is a key theme," FSI chair David Murray said during a speech to the ...

Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... new domestic avenue could involve a "rebirth of the securitisation market". Referencing research by Monash University economist Rodney Maddock, Brogden said: "We will have so much money available that we look for very long-term, very predictable assets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street higher, with the Dow Jones reaching a new record after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was picking up after a winter slowdown. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... worrying of 'em all is Finanz und Wirtschaft's published interview with former Bank of Internal Settlements' (BIS) chief economist William R. White. (http://www.fuw.ch/article/i-see-speculative-bubbles-like-in-2007/ ) "The first thing I would worry about ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite Wall Street closing lower following a broad sell-off of tech stocks. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 5,529. Locally, no major economic news ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... ages. We need flexibility for these people," he said. Andrew Leigh, the shadow assistant treasurer and a former ANU economist, added that while raising the pension age for healthier high income people in the services industry is fine, it's a bigger issue ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Uh-oh, are we in trouble now (again)? Wall Street had a big fall overnight providing evidence to those who claim the previous day's bounce was that of a deceased feline. Reports are it's about the rotation out of dear (as in expensive not the lovey-dovey ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Australian share market is trading higher, boosted by a lift in US markets and better-than-expected domestic unemployment figures. Australia's unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent in March, and the number of people with jobs rose 18,100 in the ...