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Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... or 1.22 per cent, to 3,969.15 points. First-time applications for unemployment benefits dropped by 21,000 last week, the Labor Department reported, the latest sign that the US job market is recovering. The number of applications, which is a proxy for ...

Combet joins IFM Investors board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
Former Labor minister for climate change Greg Combet will take up a position on the board of industry fund-owned investment manager IFM Investors. The appointment comes a month after it was announced that Combet would be taking up a year-long advisory ...

ASIC to scrutinise The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... secret... who their alliance is with. Common talk around Parliament House is industry super funds are very close to the Labor movement." ASIC will be expected to bring some non-partisan rigour to the discussion about whether it is proper for super funds ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... piece of "data" that received little attention from the press overnight - the US employment cost index (ECI). US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released last night showed that America's employment cost index - the broadest measure of labour ...

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... recession. Unemployment is down from a peak of 10 percent, but at 7.3 percent in October, it is still too high, reflecting a labor market and economy performing far short of their potential. At the same time, inflation has been running below the Federal ...

Parliament to address large financial services agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Coalition will table the Exposure Draft Mining and Resources Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013, which plans to repeal Labor's low income superannuation contribution (LISC). The legislation that increased compulsory super guarantee contributions ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... jobs figures. At 0802 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 55 points at 5,464. The US Labor Department reported the US economy added 204,000 jobs in October, double what analysts forecast, and revisions to the previous ...

Government scraps Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
The government has announced it will scrap Labor's plan to set up a Council of Superannuation Guardians and a Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability, arguing it would create unnecessary bureaucracy. The purpose of the Charter was to "clearly ...

Cap scrap leaves tax abuses unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... self-education expense deductions, but the measure leaves concerns about taxpayers' abuse of the system unanswered. The Labor government introduced a cap of $2,000 on tax deductibility for self-education expenses after concerns that some were abusing ...