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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens is to appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Canberra. In equities news, Crown, Sims Metal Management and Transpacific Industries are ...

Something's gotta give

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... before. The US government closed for business 1995 when talks between then President Bill Clinton and House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich failed. The federal government shuttered from 14 to 19 November, 1995 and then again from 16 December ...

MySuper tranche three clears House of Reps

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
Tranche three of the Government's MySuper legislation has passed with complete support through the House of Representatives, on the last sitting day for the year. Passed yesterday, the Bill contains one of the key components of the Gillard Government's ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... election result, in which President Barack Obama won a second term and the Republicans retained control the House of Representatives. "I think you will probably see a bounce back in overseas markets tonight when they open," Mr Heffernan said. Still to ...

Obama victory ignites fiscal cliff fears

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... spending cuts and tax increases amounting to $600 billion. However, with the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, the task is likely to be met with political wrangling as happened with the debt ceiling debacle in 2011. Markets have ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... Tuesday. But voters left Congress divided, with Democrats maintaining the Senate and Republicans holding the House of Representatives. LONDON - European stock markets closed lower and the euro fell against the US dollar. Traders on Wednesday were worried ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... prospects." In 2011 the US was brought to the brink of defaulting on its debt when the Republican controlled House of Representatives blocked the route to raising the debt ceiling. As a result, ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut the US's coveted AAA ...

Advisers failing to engage disillusioned consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... posts and add regulatory hurdles. Steve Ciobo MP, federal member for Moncrieff and deputy chairman of the House of Representatives standing committee on economics, says that if he was in power he would undo a lot of the reforms that have swept through ...

CGT relief passes House of Reps

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... welcomed by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), after the Bill passed through the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill extends the relief on capital loss rollovers to 1 July 2017 to coincide with the end of the MySuper ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens is due to appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. In equities news, Woolworths, Whitehaven Coal and Bega Cheese are due to post full year ...