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Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... a key contributor to Australia avoiding a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. On a per capita basis, without superannuation, individuals ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... expectation for the nation's economic output for the July-September period. Goldman Sachs expects third-quarter gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 2.7 per cent, weaker than its earlier forecast of 3 percent. Analysts said the market's slide ...

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Superannuation helped Australia avoid a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. Superannuation has played a vital role in strengthening ...

Don't forget the economics: Macq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... said emerging markets are susceptible to extreme volatility caused by macro factors such as changes in gross domestic product (GDP) and the country's ability to service its debt. "Our research has shown that regardless of the strength or weakness of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... from a new economic forecast by Barclay's Capital, which raised its projection for growth in the nation's gross domestic product for first three months of next year to five per cent from three per cent. GDP has been shrinking, although many economists ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... going to be a pull-back in September and October, and it's sort of happening, basically." Australian real gross domestic product (GDP) rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The GDP figures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... cent annual pace in the second quarter, leaving unrevised an estimate from a month earlier. The figure for gross domestic product (GDP) was better than expected by analysts, who had forecast a revision to an annualised 1.5 per cent pace of decline. The ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... sharp decline in remittance income, private domestic spending, and government revenue. In Armenia, real gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to contract by 9.5 per cent in 2009. Tajikistan's real GDP growth for 2009 is expected to be zero, down from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... remained muddled with a bigger-than-expected trade surplus countering last week's weaker-than-expected gross domestic product data in the March quarter. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed up 4.5 points, or 0.162 per cent, at 2,775.119.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... statement that the pace of contraction was easing. The Commerce Department's first estimate of first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) showed the world's largest economy contracted at a 6.1 percent annualised rate. While considerably worse than the ...