Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 501 - 510 of 4538 results for "Dollar"

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
"March quarter 2021's moderate growth was influenced by regularly scheduled increases. Improved business conditions saw employers revisit wage reviews postponed during the height of the pandemic." This was how Michelle Marquardt, head of price statistics ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... time, firms take into account the rate of overall inflation they expect to prevail in the future," she said. The 64 million dollar question now becomes, what would the Fed do to ease inflation expectations?

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... before. The VIX index - the fear gauge - soared by 26.3% to a reading of 27.59 (the highest since March this year) and the US dollar index rose by 0.7% to 90.8. The fear du' jour is that the US Federal Reserve might start withdrawing policy accommodation ...

Personal, business tax cuts revealed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... will receive a $255 reduction while those with incomes of $90,000 to $126,000 the offset phases out at three cents per dollar. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the tax measures are a way to ensure the momentum of Australia's economic recovery from ...

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... superannuation as an income stream. Another is that personal contributions into superannuation are going nowhere. Flat in dollar terms over the past decade. The only part of the superannuation system growing its inflows are employer SG-driven contributions ...

Super gender gap widens for NSW women: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... super gap in NSW is bridged. "NSW MPs have a choice they can fight for a super increase and to get super paid on every dollar earnt or turn their back as more women risk retiring into poverty." "Without the legislated super boost a generation of NSW ...

ASIC cracks down on investment guru

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
A self-styled investment guru and social media wealth expert has had her Australian credit licence cancelled by ASIC. Dominique Grubisa lost her licence for her company Master Wealth Control on the basis that the business was not engaging in the credit ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... past four months, but the end of April marked the first time the total value of Australian housing broke the $8 trillion dollar mark," CoreLogic head of research Eliza Owen said. "This puts Australian residential property at around four times the size ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... back into Australian currency. Not to mention, the rise in the share prices of Australian firms when they convert their US dollar earnings back into local currency. The bad. Australia would be forced to compete for the higher interest rates offered in ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
"It's not time to make a change Just relax, take it easy..." - Cat Stevens This is the US Federal Reserve's message to the markets at the conclusion of its April FOMC meeting in its efforts to calm concerns over rising inflation expectations ...