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A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
Last week was a happy one for equity markets with most benchmark indices registering sharp gains at the end of five days of trade. Is it now safe to go back in the waters? Or a dead cat bounce? It happened not so long ago, you know -- when the rebound ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
"The same old story It's been told much too much before The same old story But it's worth telling just once more..." - Billie Holiday Perhaps she didn't want to add rattle to an already jittery market. Perhaps she didn't want to deviate from the Fed ...

Scrapping LISC was shameful and retrograde: Bowen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... at the presentation of the report 'The super challenge of retirement income policy' by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Bowen argued that with this measure "the government is helping cement the gender gap." In Australia, females ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... housing perhaps in return for the familiy home being counted in the pension assets test, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has said. CEDA chief executive Professor Stephen Martin said that the measure would help alleviate poverty ...

Shares increasingly popular for Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
More than half of CommSec's new customer base is aged under 35, and more than a quarter of 25 to 34-year-olds directly own shares according to the company's latest analysis. CommSec has undertaken a review of share trading and economic developments ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... quarter have gone away. This as much was what Chicago Fed pres Charles Evans told his audience at the Columbus Economic Development Board Annual Meeting in Columbus, IN, on 4 May: "In my view, it likely will not be appropriate to begin raising the federal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... reporters that "we should also be aware that the domestic and international situations are still complicated, and economic development is facing difficulties and challenges". A soft result was widely expected as the economy was hit last year by a slowdown ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... on everybody, whether they're vertically integrated or not," Murray told the audience at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Sydney. He said that the inquiry looked at vertical integration, "but we couldn't see why the issue ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... economic news on Monday, Financial System Inquiry chairman David Murray is slated to speak at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Sydney. Meanwhile, the ANZ job advertisements series for November is due out. No major equities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... November board meeting while RBA governor Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia annual dinner in Melbourne. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases October international merchandise imports ...