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Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... to me is the only thing with a hint of significance in honourable Wayne Swan's - Australia's deputy PM and Treasurer - budget speech last night. It was a ho-hum Budget that even the Australian dollar was unimpressed by. It hardly moved up or down. What ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... futures contract was 47 points higher at 4,766. In economics news, markets will be focussed on reaction to Tuesday's Federal Budget. The only listed item on Wednesday is the issue by the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) of $600 million ...

Planners make their budget wishes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
As the Federal Government goes into budget lockdown, financial advisers have named their dearest wishes - and it's not for free set top boxes. Concessional caps, tax concessions for advice fees and a cut in the company tax rate were at the top of the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... reversed course to trade lower by noon, dragged down by banks and investors withdrawing to the sidelines ahead of the federal budget's release on Tuesday night. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 19 points, or 0.4 per cent, lower at 4,737.8 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... luncheon in Melbourne, and Victorian Treasurer Kim Wells speaks to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's state budget luncheon, also in Melbourne. On Tuesday, the Australian share market closed heavily in negative territory on investor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... conference begins in Sydney. On Wednesday, the Australian share market closed lower amid concerns about a tough upcoming federal budget, strong local dollar and possible interest rate rises sparked by higher inflation figures. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... fiscal deficits - which really is the main game for the Fed's QEs. Sufficient growth (and reduced spending) gave the US a budget surplus in 2000, it could again. Given the current size of the US deficit it could take a while, but it looks like it's heading ...

MLC preps advisers for EOFY

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... these strategies, and nine more, in detail. Additionally the centre will provide regular updates regarding the 2011 Federal Budget analysis, client materials and product information with deadlines, contribution methods and the statement reporting calendar. ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... Uncle Sam's ability to payback its debt obligations. A growing economy puts more revenues in government coffers. The US budget was able to turn a deficit running at 4.6 per cent of GDP in 1992 to a surplus - yes, a surplus - of 2.4 per cent of GDP back ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... sovereign debt to negative from stable "Because the US has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us..." and gave our dear old ...