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Low income earners can boost retirement nest eggs: super funds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2003
... significant potential to boost retirement savings for people on lower incomes in a meaningful way," she said. But Australian Greens senator Kerry Nettle said the Senate had passed up an incredible opportunity to end discrimination against same-sex couples. ...

Government scores superannuation hat trick: Coonan

... accounts which will be achieved by the amended regulations." Senator Coonan concluded by calling on the ALP, Australian Greens and the independent senators to also support these necessary reforms. Later today, amended portability regulations will be ...

Senate rejects super portability regulations

... designed to allow all fund members to consolidate accounts, were today rejected by the Senate. The Australian Democrats and Greens supported a Labor motion disallowing the regulations. Labor has argued for automatic rolling together of multiple inactive ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds continue sell-off

US bond yields jumped sharply higher overnight, continuing the sell-off that began in earnest with Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's Congressional testimony last week. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond rose 21 basis points to 4.21%, and ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares tumble in early trade

Australian shares were trading lower Thursday morning, following losses overnight in US markets. US indexes were dragged lower in response to the earlier sharp rise in bond yields and disappointing earnings reports from Ford Motor Corporation and Lucent ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds claw back losses

US bond yields edged lower overnight, clawing back some of the losses prompted by Alan Greenspan's upbeat semi-annual testimony to Congress. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond fell 6 points to 3.92%, while the yield on the 5-year bond was down 5 ...

Midday market wrap: Australian bonds hammered

The Australian bond market was sharply weaker Wednesday morning, following overnight Congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. Despite pledging to maintain the fed funds rate at low levels 'for a considerable time', bond ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds crunched by Greenspan

US bond yields spiked higher after Fed chairman Alan Greenspan presented to Congress an upbeat view of US economic prospects over the balance of 2003 and for 2004. Reassurances the Fed would hold the funds rate low "for a considerable time" were ignored ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares modestly higher

The Australian share market opened modestly higher, following another night of strong gains in US markets. At midday, the All Ordinaries index was 7.9 points higher at 3,061.3. The major banks all posted good advances in morning trade, while News Corporation ...

Morning market wrap: US shares make further gains

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2003
US shares ended higher Monday, buoyed by solid earnings results from banks Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. The second quarter earnings season commences in earnest later this week. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 57.6 points (0.6%) to ...