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Treasury rebuffs MySuper critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... Wong from the Macroeconomic Group in the Australian Treasury, were speaking at last week's Australian Conference of Economists. They said most contemporary superannuation policy has naively assumed that fund members were rationale and made good decisions ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... imports. At one stroke of a pen, tariffs on over 20,000 goods imported into America were raised to record levels. Many economists argued that the sharp decline in international trade after 1930 helped to worsen the depression. They partly blame the American ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). "The new volatility index will provide investors, financial media, researchers and economists with a means to gauge the level of volatility anticipated in the Australian equity market over the near-term," said Richard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release labour force data for August at 1130 AEST. A median of 11 economists surveyed by AAP forecast total employment to have risen by 30,000 in August, with the jobless rate falling 0.1 percentage ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... cent in the June quarter for an annual rate of 3.3 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. Economists' forecasts had centred on a quarterly rise of around 0.9 per cent for an annual rate of 2.7 per cent. "We got better than expected ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... Committee's communication, and (3) reducing the interest paid on excess reserves.... a fourth strategy, proposed by several economists-namely, that the FOMC increase its inflation goals." But he warns that, "Any deployment of these options requires a ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... Shockingly disappointing! These are just some of the adjectives the financial press quoting the analysts, quoting the economists, quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from the National Association ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style deflationary vortex ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... unemployment benefits dropped by a modest 11,000 to 457,000 last week. That's slightly better than the 459,000 forecast by economists polled by Thomson Reuters, but investors were disappointed because the drop was so small. According to preliminary calculations ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... outlook is "unusually uncertain", I say it's usually uncertain. Otherwise there'll be no jobs for financial market economists like me.