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Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... in May. Economic data due out includes the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey and Australian Bureau of Statistics' balance of payments figures. In equities news, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is among speakers at the AMP Amplify Festival ...

SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... the local market corrects. The call came on top of managed funds data recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Australian Tax Office (ATO). It showed SMSFs' share holdings had jumped 10.5% to $193.1 billion in the March quarter ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... government confirmed that the economy contracted in the first quarter. Locally on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals figures for April and business indicators for the March quarter. The RP Data Core Logic Home Value ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... numbers: "Estimate 2 for 2015-16 is $104,033m. This is 24.6% lower than Estimate 2 for 2014-15" (Australian Bureau of Statistics). It had been so long since Australia has had a recession - 1991 -- that I had to boot up my database to check. And yup ...

Shares lower at lunch time

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... down in May. Heffernan said disappointing private capital expenditure figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics had reversed the negative direction a little as investors speculated that the data could add weight for another cut to interest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... the June share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,750. Locally on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business investment figures for the March quarter. And in equities news, US-focused oil and gas producer Sundance ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Communication's $US78.7 billion ($A100.6 billion) deal to buy Time Warner Cable. Locally on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction work done for the March quarter and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... January. If the correlation holds expect faster spending growth ahead. And spend some more. While the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported last week that new motor vehicle sales decline by 1.5% in April, car dealers expect the Budget's small ...

Australia's super pool now more than $2 trillion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... that total assets in MySuper products grew by 6.2% over the same period, now reported at more than $420 billion. The statistics were released in APRA's March 2015 Quarterly Superannuation Performance publication which now includes the financial performance ...

APRA releases super performance profiles

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... to ensure confidential information of superannuation institutions cannot be derived from the regulator's published statistics. The pledge came in a recent APRA letter to Registrable Superannuation Entity (RSE) licensees and on the back of about 18 months ...