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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... the 2011 Annual Stockbrokers Conference, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), issues data on new capital expenditure and expected expenditure in the March quarter. In equities, Exterra resources Ltd and MRG Metals Ltd list on the Australian ...

Diversified pension policy is best: OECD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... dismantle incentives for early retirement. Another pension policy tension point is some countries have very high pension expenditure as a proportion of GDP yet have very high rates of retiree poverty, highlighting that untargeted pension spending is ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... passed, Woodside to annually disclose the carbon price assumptions it uses in its assessment of new and ongoing capital expenditure. The action generated support from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), which has over $300 billion ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... deflationary trend - the other bugbear - as the government spends - to rebuild infrastructure and increases welfare expenditure - businesses spend - to rebuild factories, refurnish stocks and restart operations - and consumers spend - to rebuild properties ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... "The amount of money the Government has that it can use to build reconstruction efforts means higher taxes and lower expenditure," he said. "One of the big things the Japanese government will struggle with is retrenchment of foreign direct investment." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... as $NZ20 million ($A14.74 million) by the Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks. Tower warned that the extra expenditure cannot be recovered in the current financial year to September 30, and that its net profit will be eroded. The company, whose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... country. Libya is the world's 15th largest exporter of crude oil, producing two per cent of global output. Capital expenditure data released on Thursday showed Australian is in the midst of a strong surge in business investment and it is expected to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... That's a very key line to watch, if it breaks below 99.80, then 98.00 cents is the next target." Australian Capital expenditure data for the December quarter will be released during Thursday's local session.