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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... major indices down more than one per cent, on concerns about inflation and higher interest rates as oil jumped to a record above $123 a barrel. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 206.48 points, or 1.59 per cent, to end at 12,814.35. The Standard & ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... America Corp may walk away from buying troubled lender Countrywide Financial Corp, while oil jumped to an intraday record above $120 a barrel. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 88.66 points, or 0.68 per cent, to ...

Tax relief will drive insurance cover

... extra contributions towards retirement savings." "Ultimately, each employee will need to fine-tune their level of cover above or below the default level to suit their own situation and may call upon a licensed financial adviser to assist them in this ...

Retail spending is not slowing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... cent increase in January. The sustained retail trading figures reinforce concerns about our inflation rate which is now above 4 per cent. The strength of the figures prompted Westpac chief executive officer Gail Kelly last week to say it may be 18 months ...

Telstra Super eyes distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... Distressed debt is a sub-segment of the high-yield bond market and is defined as securities that yield at least 10 percent above the risk-free rate benchmark. According to NYU Stern School of Business, the size of the distressed debt market was about ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... that little bit harder but at least it will help the country pay for its oil import bill. Inflation rising 4.2 per cent, above what most market economists were expecting, is also raising speculation that the Reserve Bank may have to go into interest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... - driven by a strong lead from the US on Friday after bellwether stocks Google and Caterpillar delivered profit results above expectations. Despite posting a $US5.11 billion ($A5.48 billion) quarterly loss on writedowns related to sub-prime mortgages ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... the US. Other should be expected to follow suit in Australia. The ABS reports there are more than 1 million Australians above age 60 who are not in the workforce, illustrating the potential if only a small proportion were to re-enter it even in a part-time ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Australia's superannuation guarantee level is set to rise above the current 9 per cent under the Rudd Government, predicts a head strategist at Macquarie. Pointing out that it was the Labor government that set the wheels of the present super regime ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... Eurozone by delivering fourth quarter annualised GDP of 20 per cent, leading to full-year growth of 10.4 per cent, well above expectations. According to the (Slovakia) Statistical Office, much of the recent economic surge is attributed to one-off stockpiling ...