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Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... The Australian share market was more than 1.5 per cent lower at noon in quiet trading ahead of Tuesday night's federal budget. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was 64.1 points lower, or by 1.63 per cent, at 3861.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
It's Budget lock-up day tonight in Canberra. The day when the who's who of the Australian economics and the reporting world are held incommunicado for six hours until the grand unveiling of the Government's plan for the future. The official rationale ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... The Australian share market is expected to open weaker after a fall on Wall Street, before attention turns to the federal budget due on Tuesday night. At 0714 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 51 points lower ...

What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
New restrictions to existing superannuation and tax concessions could help the Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... of dollars spent preventing the recession from becoming a depression. Leaks in Australia's 'tough and unpopular' Federal Budget - to be unveiled tomorrow night - have already ignited worries among consumers. And nervous consumers do not open their wallets. ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... above this threshold. The development reinforces rumours salary sacrificing will also be means tested following Tuesday's Budget. However while any moves in this regard will send shock waves through the superannuation industry, it was yesterday reported ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... cent of the retail price also has government officials worried about the fiscal implications. Responding to the looming budget emergency, and in a throw back to the bad ole days when China's best ideas were to simply mobilise its huge workforce, the ...

Rothfield heads ML economics

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... from 1987 to 1989. He started his career in 1979 at the Australian Treasury working on balance of payments, monetary and budget policy issues, including a stint at the IMF in 1983 and a year as senior executive assistant to the Australian Treasury Secretary. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open in positive territory as both Wall Street and commodity prices were higher overnight. At 0735 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 75 points at 3,939. In economic news ...