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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... ($A286 billion) in federal spending and tax cuts to get Americans working again. Mr McPherson said that despite momentary relief that the Australian economy had returned to growth, with gross domestic product (GDP) up 1.2 per cent in the June quarter ...

US housing market needs renovation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... don't help much either. According to RP Data, most US home owners are on 30-year fixed rate mortgages and so don't feel the relief when rates fall, like they have been in the US for a long while now. In contrast, in Australia most home buyers are on ...

Super funds prefer employers via clearing houses

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... time to manually enter the employee's details and make a payment. For the super fund, it means seamless processing and the relief of an administrative headache. Collister said TelstraSuper's biggest volume clearing house volume comes from ADP with about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Caterpillar fell 9.2 per cent. LONDON - Global stocks took another pounding as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults. ...

Govt provides reverse mortgage guarantees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... "The government needs to look at alternative models beyond just family home. Other models would provide for medium term relief, but they need to be explored as I think people will be reluctant to focus on just one option," said Michael O'Neill, chief ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... Forum enters day two of its three-day run. On Monday, Australian shares gained more than one and a half per cent in a "relief rally" after the United States avoided a debt default with an eleventh-hour agreement to cut its deficit. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... further. "Clearly the big issue for global markets at the moment is the US negotiations, and at the moment there is a lot of relief that a deal has been done," he said. "It's a good first step." The deal still needs to be approved by Congress and includes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... finally struck a bailout deal for Greece that also puts in place steps to avoid contagion in other struggling economies. Relief that the multi-billion-dollar agreement had been reached also sent the euro soaring after the single currency had suffered ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... government bonds and a promise to fast-track that country's austerity measures helped ease those fears. Investors also felt some relief after a meeting of 17 European finance ministers on Monday resulted in a statement that implied they were open to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... Independence Day public holiday. Dealers said there was little news other than a Standard and Poor's warning that current debt relief efforts on Greece are tantamount to a default - an outcome the eurozone is trying at all costs to avoid. In London ...