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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... June share price index contract was 20 points lower at 6304. After last night's relatively interest rate friendly federal budget, which introduces new spending initiatives and tax cuts, the Australian Bureau of Statistics today will release the house ...

Brumbie: The only Budget numbers that matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... Eve and by this time tomorrow we'll all know if Santa has given us the present we wanted, but to really make sense of the Budget you need to understand the ground rules. The Budget might look like a financial document because it has numbers in it, but ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... slightly today after a record run as Qantas remains in a trading halt and the market awaits the outcome of today's Federal budget. At 0811 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was down two points to 6335. Treasurer ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... Chevron's reportedly huge oil find in Cambodia. No doubt Australia's cows haven't been consulted on the outcome of the Federal Budget, but our economists have been busy talking it up - and down. However, a big litmus test regarding economic capacity ...

Nipping at the Tiger's tail

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... for another bought of savage price competition as Tiger Airways pounces on Melbourne's Tullamarine airport and the upset budget carrier Jetstar has decided to practically give away airline tickets, fuelling hopes of some economic recovery in our slowing ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... with interest rates on the agenda. The Reserve also will release its commodity price index for April. The Victorian state budget will be handed down in Melbourne, which will include tax cuts for business and a $1.3-billion package to boost drought-ravaged ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
... measures therefore will decelerate in annual terms - this should be enough to keep the RBA on the sidelines." With the Federal Budget due out in the following week and particularly with a Federal election approaching, the RBA may find that a rate hike ...

Simpler super needs complex planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
... Planners looking to help their clients make the most out of the Simpler Super reforms flowing from last year's Federal Budget had better get busy or they might miss the opportunities. Kate Anderson, head of technical services at Mariner Financial services ...

Demography is destiny: IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... on average over the next 40 years, compared with 2.1 per cent over the past 40 years," said Costello. Pointing his 2006 Budget reforms, Costello said the IGR analysis highlights why we need to encourage greater work force participation among older people. ...