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Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
More than half of the respondents in Financial Standard's weekly spot poll said Australia should follow the United States' lead and drop the corporate tax rates to as low as 21%. The US reduced its corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective 1 January ...

Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Customers will need to determine how much data they really want to share," he said. In November 2017 NAB announced about 4000 job cuts as part of a strategy to further automate its business, introducing 2000 new, tech-based roles focused on artificial ...

Crowdfunding investment opportunity unleashed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
Small and medium enterprises will finally be able to raise funds from the general public in exchange for equity following the regulators issuance of the first batch of crowdfunding intermediary licences. Yesterday ASIC granted licenses to seven platforms ...

FSC calls for inquiry into gig economy and its impact on super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... on tax revenue, superannuation, life insurance, and retirement savings. "The nature of employment is changing. The era of job certainty, regular hours, and little or no part time work is over," the submission said. "The Government and the economy more ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) announcement that it's trimming ¥10 billion off its purchases of 10 to 25-year and 25 to 40-year JGBs sent the Japanese yen 0.5% higher against the US dollar to ¥112.43 after it sparked renewed taper speculations. While Bloomberg ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... good; where people are confident; where companies are expanding, and capital spending is growing; wage growth is picking up; job growth is pretty good and people have a good outlook and are looking ahead," Baur said. In the last decade or so people around ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
There's certainly no denying that the bulls ruled Wall Street over the course of 2017 with its record breaking feat splattered all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq ...

Former Challenger subsidiary chief joins SMSF fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... Williams said she was attracted to the untapped potential of the NowInfinity. "Amreeta and the team have done a fantastic job building the business over the past few years," she said. "My brief is to move faster, better, stronger. It's certainly going ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... quarters - down to 8.3% in the year to the November quarter from 8.9% in the February quarter. We might not need the patience of Job to see stronger job creation flow through into faster wage growth.

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
To say that you, I and Irene were surprised at last month's NAB business survey - that showed Australian business conditions rocketed to an all-time high in October but confidence hardly budged - is more than just an understatement for even the survey ...