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Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009." Yup, that long ago! It also noted the timing and size of its asset purchase programme. "A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous ...

Australian students get top marks for financial literacy

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Australian students were amongst the top performers in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Financial Literacy assessment, which is the first international study of students' financial literacy. The study assessed the ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... that time? The time when she spooked financial markets when she declared that "considerable time" after the purchase programme ends means "... you know, this is the kind of term it's hard to define, but, you know, it probably means something on the order ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... economists" were wrong! Carney maintained the status quo on BOE policy - the Bank Rate at 0.5% and the asset purchase programme ceiling at A£375 billion. The only change Carney made was to delete the 7.0% unemployment rate threshold (at which previously ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... decided to suspend the weekly fine-tuning operation sterilising the liquidity injected under the Securities Markets Programme." European equity markets jumped with joy! The Stoxx-50 index closed up 0.9% with the German DAX surging to an intra-day record ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to open higher after encouraging US economic data pushed Wall Street higher. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was six points higher at 5,533. In economic news on Wednesday, the ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... "There will be difficult decisions, but all Australians must help to do the heavy lifting." "The fiscal consolidation programme that we reveal in the Budget will establish a clear path back to a surplus of 1% of GDP by 2024."

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
The financial advice profession is likely to disappear and planners could be replaced by robots. That is the finding of a new study which reveals that machines could easily provide financial advice to consumers thanks to complex algorithms. Financial ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" after the Fed purchase programme ends contained in the 19 March FOMC statement to mean "... you know, it probably means something on the order of around six ...