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No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
What's this? No headlines on yesterday's all-important Australian Labour Force report? Australian newspapers have relegated yesterday's Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) employment report to their inside pages. Since November last year, the media ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... strong, despite weak employment figures both in the US and locally. The ANZ employment series, which measures internet and newspaper job ads, showed a seasonally adjusted decline of 6.3 per cent in January - the ninth month in a row that the number of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from Wall Street overnight, with key indices mixed while oil and precious metals fell. At 0832 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was seven points higher at 3,467. In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... institution we've built [apart from banks] gives us a third front to fight on - compulsory super," said Nick Gruen in a newspaper column and major economic blog last week. The proposal is similar to one presented by the Rainmaker group in March this ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian newspaper has reported proposals to strip new judges of the non-contributory arrangements paid to current sitting judges. The idea suggested ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian newspaper has reported proposals to strip new judges of the non-contributory arrangements paid to current sitting judges. The idea suggested ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... institution we've built [apart from banks] gives us a third front to fight on - compulsory super," said Nick Gruen in a newspaper column and major economic blog last week. The proposal is similar to one presented by the Rainmaker group in March this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today after Wall Street advanced as voting proceeded in the United States in hope the next president will act on the financial crisis. At 0749 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract ...

For those about to hit rock bottom, we salute you

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... global credit crunch has been formally identified as not Dr Alan Greenspan but rock band AC/DC, after the UK Guardian newspaper revealed the world goes into recession every time the aging rockers go on tour. Sending world stock markets into a tailspin ...