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This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (8 - 12 Sep 2008) The financial market volatility of the previous months spilled over into September. Weakening economic growth, falling commodity prices and political uncertainty in the US -- government is on hold until the ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
The stock market is expected to fall sharply this morning, dragged down by an underperforming Wall Street and other weaker overseas markets. At 0651 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was down 66 points at 6,331. In ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
Following the announcement by the US that it would impose tariffs on imported paper products from China after its research had shown that they were being subsidized by 10-20 per cent, trade negotiations have become more urgent as key players perceive ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... year to the end of October to $US88.1 billion although its imports increased by only $US64 billion or 14 per cent. The Democrat win in the US mid-term elections will place more focus on the US China relationship as about 90 per cent of the US problem ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... of big drug makers and health-care companies as investors worried about the uncertainty of the legislative agenda of a Democrat-controlled Congress. A jump of more than two per cent in crude oil prices and a weaker-than-expected reading in a gauge of ...

Parl committee to review entire super industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
Yet another parliamentary inquiry is to review the structure of the superannuation industry, but even a cursory glance at the latest terms of reference means this committee is on a political mission. The committee is likely to become controversial because ...

Senate passes changes to super payments reporting

The Senate has passed the Tax Laws Amendment (Superannuation Reporting) Bill allowing employers, from 1 January 2005, to forgo quarterly reporting of superannuation entitlements to employees with little resistance in the upper house of Parliament from ...

Battlers support super contributions

Figures released by the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue the Hon Mal Brouch show that over 17 per cent of low and middle income earners will receive a government co-contribution to their superannuation. "We expect next year's take-up to ...

Australian dollar surges after US election result

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2004
The Australian dollar shot up over one US cent to hit six and half month highs in early morning trade, after US president George W Bush was reelected for a second four-year term. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was at $US0.7555/58, compared to yesterday's ...