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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... 0.09 points to 1,998.38. Tokyo added 0.26 per cent, or 48.24 points, to close at 18,751.84. China's National People's Congress, the rubber-stamp legislature, opened with Premier Li Keqiang setting a growth target for this year of "approximately seven ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... DOL should get on with its reform notwithstanding there is still cross-party resistance to the reform in both house of Congress.

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... 'Tis so because the RBA must counter the Fed's counter move delivered on 23-24 Feb when Yellen told the Senate and then Congress that she'll remain "patient" for a little while longer. You think Janet's being magnanimous? No way, Jose. It's war, it's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... building that Chinese authorities will announce more monetary easing ahead of the annual meeting of the National People's Congress, the country's legislature, next week. The Shanghai Composite Index added 69.52 points to close at 3,298.36 on turnover ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
The market has opened flat despite fresh records on Wall Street on the back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following rises on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve chief indicated the US central bank was in no hurry to raise its interest rate. At 0833 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... Chairman's inclination on interest rate policy when she delivers her semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony before the US Congress later this month. But it's all good whether the Fed lifts rates by mid-year or not. If it doesn't, then liquidity support ...

Push to end US Congressional pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... force politicians to save for their own retirement just like everyone else. The legislation, known as the End Pensions in Congress (EPIC) Act, would end pensions for all future Members of Congress as well as those currently serving who are not yet vested ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... around the world to weaken their own currencies has revived an old angst on Capitol Hill and yielded new battle lines for Congress and its currency warriors." Hello, currency manipulators! Hello trade wars. Mount your horses! Draw your swords! War - ...

MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... and so the likelihood of anything like a depositor 'run' is very remote. A better alternative, argued MetLife, is for Congress to pass the Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 legislation which is a bill that recognises these prudential ...