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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... 10 points higher at 5,492. In economic news on Wednesday, the bureau of statistics releases national accounts, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. The bureau also releases overseas arrivals and departures numbers for April. The Australian ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... "There's just general weakness based on the US lead and perhaps the federal budget, which will be an overall negative for gross domestic production growth moving forward." A rise in commodity prices overnight helped buffer some mining stocks, he said. ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... doing relatively well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of GDP and unemployment is 5.8%. "You look around you here and it ...

BNP Paribas signs up to TARGET 2

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... of the TARGET 2 Securities (TS2) settlement program. The TARGET 2 - which stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement express transfer system - is an initiative that provides a single platform for securities settlement in central bank ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... 0.20 per cent to 9,603.23 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.23 per cent to 4,487.39. The US Commerce Department said gross domestic product (GDP) rose just 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, well below the 1.0 per cent rise analysts expected. The ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... deficit soaring to A¥1.446 trillion. In so much as net exports - exports minus imports - figures in the calculation of gross domestic product (GDP), this is a negative for overall economic growth. Similarly, while it appears that the Japanese government ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... confirmed the central bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data also showed that China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 7.4 per cent in the first three months of the year, higher than the market forecast of 7.3 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... resource sector is down despite BHP Billiton announcing an upbeat production report. Most investors are hanging out for China's gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, due out later on Wednesday, Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said. ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... indicated the budget would need to improve by at least $50 billion in today's dollars by 2020 to have any chance of bringing gross debt down by 70 per cent to a "safer level" equal to 4.7 per cent of gross domestic product". And according to 'The Australian" ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... results are referred to as 'performance' they are actually defined by the ATO as 'return on equity' and so are likely to be gross return estimates that do not reflect the proper impact of fees and taxes. This means real returns could actually be lower. ...