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Daily economic update

... Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported its application index fell by 3.7 per cent in the week ending April 21 -- the third consecutive weekly decline and applications are now down by 23 per cent from a year ago. Purchases fell 4.4 per cent to their ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2006
... was down 6.37 points at 1301.74. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 3.08 points at 2330.30. The S&P 500 registered its third straight day of losses, while the Dow hit its second straight day of decline. The Nasdaq fell for a fourth straight day. LONDON ...

PSI Super partners with SyncSoft to grow third party admin

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
PSI Superannuation Management has announced that it plans to grow its third party administration business on the back of a synergistic partnership with technology provider SyncSoft. PSI said that it selected SyncSoft's CAPITAL administration system ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
... and record metals prices boosted commodity companies. The Hang Seng index ended up 192.91 points at 16,830.44, marking its third straight session of gains. WELLINGTON - The sharemarket fell out of step with the surging US and Australian markets as the ...

Single women a rising force in residential property

... when it comes to buying homes and one out of every five home buyers is a bachelorette. He added, "Women account for one-third of all apartment and townhouses purchased as well as 6 per cent of second homes." Despite these emerging trends, Newspoll found ...

Daily economic update

The US trade balance narrowed to a deficit of US$65.74 billion in February from a record US$68.59 billion deficit in the previous month. Market expectations were for a deficit of US$67.5 billion. US exports fell by 1.2 per cent as a 5.8 per cent drop ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... because OECD definitions are quite specific that a tax must be a direct payment transfer to government rather than to a third party, such as a super fund, the report's authors had little choice but to accept that their personal perceptions on this thorny ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... 5901.25, down 7.22 points. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 5085.11, down 27.49 points. TOKYO - The Nikkei average fell for a third session, posting its biggest one-day fall in over a month as technology and auto stocks succumbed to profit-taking due ...

1 in 4 Australians have more than one super fund: ICAA

A recent survey has found that 27 per cent of Australian adults hold multiple super funds. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) surveyed 1,200 Australians last month seeking to discover the real impact of the super choice legislation ...

Daily Economic Update

... Meanwhile, the German ZEW investor confidence index fell to 62.7 in April from 63.4 in the previous month, marking the index's third straight monthly decline. Higher energy costs, the high rate of unemployment, an expected additional rate hike from the ...