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Home lending picks up again in March: RBA

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
... meets on interest rates next week, although analysts had discounted the chance of a rate rise so soon before the federal Budget. Personal credit, which covers credit cards and their higher interest rates, grew at 1.0 per cent and was 15.3 per cent up ...

Fed Budget year to date February deficit of $4.455 billion

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
The federal Budget was $4.5 billion in the red eight months into the financial year, due largely to higher education costs at the start of the school year. Finance Minister Nick Minchin said the underlying cash balance for the year to date February ...

Federal budget deficit $2.656 billion to end January

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
The federal Budget was $2.656 billion in deficit to January 31, Finance Minister Nick Minchin said on Friday. The fiscal balance to January 31 was $1.1 billion. The government has forecast a Budget surplus of $4.6 billion for 2003-2004, and the monthly ...

Budget surplus already at $337 million: DOFA

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2003
The federal Budget was more than $300 million in the black after the first two months of the 2003/04 financial year, new figures showed today. The Department of Finance and Administration (DOFA) said the underlying cash balance for the year to date ...

Budget under pressure: Abbott

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2003
The 2003/04 federal Budget was under considerable pressure, Health Minister Tony Abbott said today. He said the ongoing fight against terrorism and renewing programs had put demands on this year's Budget. "My understanding is that this year's Budget ...

Government unfunded super liabilities total $10 billion

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2003
... to about $10billion. The $3billion increase was in addition to the existing $6.2billion shortfall shown in the Federal Budget for two major commonwealth superannuation plans. State governments may be forced to limit future spending measures or tax cuts ...

Increase in Government unfunded super liabilities may cause super vacuum

... $37.2 billion in 2002. This $3 billion increase in addition to the existing $6.2 billion shortfall shown in the Federal Budget for two major commonwealth super plans, has increased unfunded liabilities by almost $10 billion. However according to Rainmaker ...

Business confidence on upswing: ACCI and Westpac industrial survey

General business confidence is on a high in the wake of the 2003-04 Federal Budget and the Australian economy has continued to perform strongly in the 2003 June quarter, a survey of industrial trends by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

Morning market wrap: US shares run out of steam

... were still sensitive to headlines unrelated to US financial or economic performance. Domestically, last night's Federal Budget and the surprise release of income tax cuts due to a Budget surplus could shore up confidence in the continued resilience of ...

Income tax Budget gets mixed reaction

... is very worrying. The money should have been quarantined and the promise delivered," Smith said. "Once again the Federal Budget is largely about politics," said Alan Oster, chief economist at the National Bank of Australia. "The days of large surpluses ...