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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Ordinaries index fell 28.2 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 4,511.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks closed marginally lower as budget talks continued in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 13.82 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 12,951.78 after ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... series of government spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to start in 2013 unless an agreement is reached to cut the budget deficit. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 59.98 points, or 0.46 per cent, to 12,965.60. The Standard and Poor's 500 ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... down from 71.4% in 2004 to 40.5% last year. A lower interest rate burden would go a long way into containing the country's budget deficit - down from 3.7% of GDP in 2010 to 2.0% last year - which would come under upward pressure as Aquino implements ...

Fund budget surplus with cuts to super tax breaks: Treasury

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... of salvation. Greece must implement tough austerity measures - cutting public spending and raising taxes - to reduce its budget deficit; it must sell-off (privatise) assets to reduce debts; it must pursue structural reforms for its own economic good. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... have opened firmer in quiet trading conditions as market players wait for the latest developments over Greece and the US budget. At 1031 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 11.4 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,435.6 points, while the broader All ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street and as markets await the outcome of a eurozone ministers meeting on a Greek bailout package. At 0644 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Ex-Macq banker to head up Govt clean energy fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... technologies in Australia. It will make its own investment decisions and operate with little assistance from the Federal Budget, the CFEC said. The management team led by Yates will be in charge of acting on the board's investment decisions. He has 20 ...

Aging and deleveraging impact long-term growth: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
Aging demographics and an ongoing process of debt deleveraging pose the biggest challenges to investors over the coming years, according to a report by UBS. While cyclical factors tend to dominate day-to-day market movements, according to the asset ...

Final hour fiscal cliff verdict will be reached: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... promote domestic demand but ultimately GDP will grow a disappointing 1.75% in 2013. Moretti predicts that, "The overall [budget] adjustment amounts to almost half of the fiscal cliff, mainly from spending cuts as opposed to tax increases. Europe continues ...