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Finance is a good career move

... fastest growing sector of the Australian economy, with the value of its output growing at a high 40 per cent faster than nominal GDP. This is helped by the superannuation environment which eggs many high income earners to seek financial services to manage ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... international tax benchmarking report concluded that the nation's transaction taxes tallied to 1.6 per cent of Australia's GDP compared with an average of 0.7 per cent across the developed world. Furthermore, land prices have outstripped building costs ...

Financial services exports trailing economy

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... 10 per cent per annum between 1996 and 2000 and is now only 2.2 per cent over the past five years, he said. Against regular GDP growth of 3 per cent or more, this means financial services is falling behind as a national - rather than individual - wealth ...

Emerging markets more attractive than ever: Templeton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
... economies have made significant economic improvements which bode well for the long term. "Many emerging markets have robust GDP growth, trade surpluses, high foreign reserves, low inflation, strong investment and domestic demand." Managing director of ...

Cutting super benefit taxes affordable: IAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
... a small fraction of the cost of wiping out contribution taxes. "Currently benefit taxes amount to around 0.05 per cent of GDP, compared with 0.70 per cent for contributions and investment taxes. Our modelling suggests that this will only increase to ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
... the 0.1 per cent contraction in the December quarter of last year. Statistics New Zealand reported that the country's real GDP expanded by 0.7 per cent in the first quarter supported by increased consumer spending. Although the annual growth rate in ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... emphasised that there is not a definite schedule for the implementation of interest rate hikes. Japanese first quarter real GDP growth was revised from an annualised rate of 1.9 per cent to 3.1 per cent on the back of stronger capital expenditures and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... The CAC-40 index closed at 4723.18, down 45 points. TOKYO - The Nikkei ended up slightly as an upward revision to Japanese GDP data spurred buying in firms dependent on domestic demand. The Nikkei ended up 82.17 points at 14,833.01. HONG KONG - Stocks ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
... bias towards further RBA rate hikes. Following yesterday's faster-than-expected 0.9 per cent growth in March quarter real GDP, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest Labour Force report, released today, showed that the number of employed persons ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... Australian economy expanded by a faster-than-expected 0.9 per cent in the March quarter, taking the annual growth in real GDP up to 3.1 per cent. Market expectations were for a first quarter increase of 0.7 per cent and 2.7 per cent over the year. The ...