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Suggestions we don't support 12% CSG lies: Hockey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... scrap it, yeah. That's a revelation, is it?" The comment comes after the shadow Treasurer said on Friday that the expenditure next to the MRRT "would go" even though the increase in superannuation is partly funded by the mining tax. A statement issued ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... transportation and recreation spending form a large part of retiree budgets. The differences in the composition of expenditure in the modest and comfortable budgets mean that a price increase for a specified 'good' or service can impact more on the modest ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
The total cost of superannuation tax concessions climbed 10.5% in 2011-12 to reach a record $32.4 billion, according to the just released Tax Expenditures Statements. Superannuation tax concessions account for 29% of the $111 billion of total tax expenditures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... gained 0.06 per cent, to 5,803.28 points. Locally, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the June 2012 quarter on Thursday, while the HIA new home sales figures for October are ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 14 points at 4,465. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the June 2012 quarter, while the HIA new home sales figures for October are also due out. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... and the S&P500 fell 0.2 per cent, the NASDAQ advanced 0.33 per cent. Moreover, Australian data on private capital expenditure was due out later this week. "All of that adds up to a lot of sitting on hands," Mr McCarthy said. Healthcare was the best-performing ...

Obama victory ignites fiscal cliff fears

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... revival in the housing market and an industrial renaissance based on relatively cheap energy supplies. Moreover, capital expenditure could pick up sharply (from the very low current levels) once the policy outlook becomes clearer post the election." ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... especially if the latest uptrend in US consumer spending continues. The US Commerce Department reports that household expenditure - that which accounts for 70% of the economy - rose by 0.8% in September following a 0.5% lift in the previous month. This ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... Asia and China and Europe and the US declines. Woe to our terms of trade. Woe to the resources and mining capital expenditure plans and the employment they're meant to generate. Then there are my neighbours - three of them I exchanged neighbourly greetings ...