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Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... services, to just half the level of our commodity exports, it would add $50 billion to our economy each and every year," Treasurer Joe Hockey said during his 2015 Budget speech. The Treasurer predicted that services, including finance, "will be the big ...

IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... deductions on every asset costing less than $20,000 (previously $1,000) purchased between now and 30 June 2017. Treasurer Joe Hockey said that the cuts were "the lowest small business company tax rate in almost 50 years" and designed to help "small business ...

Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey presented a budget he said focuses on Australian citizens' and businesses' opportunity to "have a go," despite hardening economic conditions. Hockey presented his 2015 budget as "the government's plan to strengthen our nation's ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... tangible cost savings arising from its encircling of tax loopholes for multi-nationals showed the policy had been rushed in. "Joe Hockey's proposal [on multi-nationals] is fine as far as it goes but it doesn't go very far. It's a complete cop out that's ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... announced by Social Services Minister Scott Morrison prior to the budget release. Although in his budget speech, federal Treasurer Joe Hockey did say the Age Pension "will continue to increase, twice a year, this year, and every year - at the highest ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... first-class dividend stock". I could only surmise that it's the uncertainty surrounding the great reveal of Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget (or is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... housing finance figures for March are released, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and Treasurer Joe Hockey hands down the federal budget in the evening. In equities news, Coca-Cola Amatil holds its annual general meeting ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... redeploy our savings and redeploy government expenditure into areas of growth in the economy". That's the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey in black and white. And it gets better, better, better. Commodity prices are picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo principal Joe Bracken warned. "Annual US returns have been nearly 10% higher than the average non-US market over the past five years," he ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey will allocate millions to a taskforce that will fight "serious and organised financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases ...