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FTSE100 pensions in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... Watson Wyatt found FTSE100 companies' pension funds turned a combined $48 billion surplus a month ago into a $16.5 billion deficit last month due to the double whammy of stock market falls and high inflation. Rashpal Bhabra, Watson Wyatt head of corporate ...

NZ economy goes negative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... from imported vehicle sales-there is a chance New Zealand is already in recession." The trade balance remained firmly in deficit in April and May, he said. Meanwhile, the Moody's briefing notes that NZ Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard has forecast ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... Both the currency and the sharemarket were relatively unmoved by a worse than anticipated March quarter current account deficit of $NZ2.16 billion. The benchmark NZSX-50 closed up 10.7 points at 3291.97, on turnover valued at $NZ123.4 million.

Goods and services trade deficit narrows to $2.7b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... on goods and services numbers improved by $525 million in March. According to the ABS, in seasonally adjusted terms the deficit on the balance improved by 16 per cent, leaving us only $2,736 million in the red for the month. But the improved deficit ...

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... can make payments for education, training, parental leave, and superannuation contributions, with capacity to go into deficit and income-contingent repayments which maximise the choices available to individuals and link flexible personal choices to a ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... how the doubling of the number of people aged over 65 will push the NSW government budget into a projected $14 billion deficit notwithstanding this will have to be countered by considerable tax increases. The calls also support the increasing focus on ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... criteria. But while soaring foreign investment (on the back of lower taxes) and strong growth has helped to cut the budget deficit, Slovakia's lingering nemesis is inflation. Despite higher inflation late last year and again this quarter, Citi expects ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... that we are starting to see the other side of sub-prime tunnel. In particular, exports are growing, the US "non-oil trade deficit" is being contained, while the USD should start to recover into 2009. How long it takes for housing-lead confidence and ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay for imports in relation to the prices we receive ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... story in yesterday's rates rise is that despite the surging economy making the rate rise necessary, the current account deficit (CAD) is still stuck on 6 per cent. According to the ABS, our CAD has been 5.5 to 6 per cent of GDP for the last two years ...