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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq added 11.04 (0.39 per cent) to 2,805.12. The US bond market rallied. The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 1.72 per cent from 1.79 per cent Tuesday, while the 30-year fell to 2.79 per cent from 2.89 per cent. LONDON ...

CSSA: MySuper puts corporate super insurance at risk

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
CSSA: MySuper puts corporate super insurance at riskThere is a fundamental flaw in the assumptions being made by Treasury regarding what happens to a member's benefits when they leave a corporate super fund, according to the Corporate Super Specialist ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... intergovernmental agreement as a matter of priority." Treasurer Wayne Swan is believed to have previously raised the issue with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Australian Treasury officials have been communicating with their US counterparts ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... are gonna be. One year ago, the 2011/2012 Budget Papers trumpeted an underlying cash deficit of A$22.6 billion because Treasury thought that Australian real GDP would grow by 4% this fiscal year. It's not. My calculations show that the economy would ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... by the Fed's reinvestment of "principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities." So much so that scaredy cats who sold the S&P 500 missed out on a 33.9% gain between last week's close and the ...

China's consumption underestimated

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... Chinese production levels, investors may have underestimated China's consumption figures, according to Eng Tek Tan of Treasury Asia Asset Management "Consumption is really understated in China, primarily because data collection is poor. In reality official ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... was down slightly more, off 35.55 points (1.16 per cent) to 3,024.30. The bond market was slightly down. The 10-year Treasury yield rose by a fraction to 1.92 per cent, while the 30-year was flat at 3.11 per cent. LONDON - European stocks were little ...

AIST appoints new president

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... (AIST) and chair of the national Women in Super network, Wood is also deputy chair of Care Super, a member of the ACT Treasury Investment Advisory Board and chair of the AIST education committee. She is a former chief executive of AGEST and was a member ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... United States from payrolls firm ADP drove sellers from the opening bell. Bond prices climbed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.92 per cent from 1.96 per cent Tuesday, while the 30-year dropped to 3.11 per cent from 3.16 per cent. LONDON - ...