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Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... legislation "is aimed at locking into law the dodgy deal that they [the Coalition] have done with Clive Palmer to back the big banks over consumers." "Choice, Industry Super Australia, ASIC and the Government's own hand-picked chair of the Financial ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... In Australia on Tuesday, share market closed almost flat as modest gains among the major banks outweighed weakness in the big miners pressured by falling iron ore prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 2.7 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 5,637.6 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... $63.99, Fortescue Metals dipped 1.5 cents to $4.325, while Atlas Iron gained 0.25 cents to $59.75. In other company news, the big banks were all up, with Commonwealth Bank gaining 15 cents to $80.66, ANZ rising eight cents to $33.30, Westpac up eight ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
It didn't happen overnight, but it is happening. The S&P 500 index flirted above its 2,000-point milestone -2001.95 points to be exact in intra-day trade - before closing at 1997.92 points. There's always tomorrow. With just another 2.1 points (0.1%) ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... $33.505, NAB rising five cents to $34.51, Commonwealth Bank lifting 24 cents to $80.85 and Westpac up 13 cents to $35.02. The big resource players continued their recent trend of losses. BHP Billiton dropped 37 cents to $37.43, Rio Tinto shed 56 cents ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Raise your hands all ye who thinks that their economy is growing above and beyond potential, that there's no slack in their nations' respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
"What do you know about medicine?" This was what the doctor I consulted asked me when I asked for a stronger dose of antibiotics to rid me of the bacterial bugs that have invaded my body a few months back. Well doc, I may not know about medicine as ...

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... because it creates artificial competition. The fact is many of the smaller financial institutions out there are owned by the Big Four, which are trying to hide that ownership," People's Choice managing director Peter Evers said. "They want people to ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... the third consecutive month of decline. House prices fell by 0.5% in June and 0.1% in May. China's surely in trouble now - big trouble, according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR), "China's property market is going through its worst slump on record..." ...