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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... assurance that gains in conditions will be sustainable", according to NAB's chief economist Alan Oster. Commonwealth government debt jumps to $422bn Australian Commonwealth government debt has climbed to $422 billion as at 8 April 2016, according to ...

Support to recycle Queensland assets

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... exploring both long-term leasing and sale of assets provided the proceeds of privatisation are used to pay down government debt and reinvested in priority infrastructure projects," Behrens said. He cited the NSW example of selling down electricity transmission ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... could move its grading from B+ to A by increasing the workforce participation of older Australians and reducing government debt. "One of the things that have been discussed in the Financial System Inquiry is the Comprehensive Income Product for Retirement ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... government spending. There goes fiscal austerity out the door. Speaking of which, Moody's has just downgraded French government debt from Aa1 to Aa2 because "Taken together, low growth and institutional and political challenges to reforms make it unlikely ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... growth are farther than ideology rather than rational and proven economics. "Any analogy between household debt and government debt is at best weak. After all, the government is able to raise revenue to meet its debt obligations if needed. Households ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... up from last year's target of 2.1 percent." So too about China's debt. According to Prime Minister Li Keqiang, "Government debt is at a relatively low level and concerns over China's government debt risks are unnecessary." "Central government debt is ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
"You say it best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... exchange for pledges and promises of fiscal repair, repair there was not. Trading Economics data show that Greek government debt to GDP continues to rise - from 146% in 2010 to 177% last year. Debt levels of this magnitude certainly make a mockery of ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... those are very good assets at the moment." The company is generally bearish on the UK market and is shorting UK government debt via futures contracts. "The gilt market is owned by basically three roots of investors and each has about the same amount. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... York on Wednesday. The euro's further tumble came after ECB chief Mario Draghi said the bank will start buying government debt in its new quantitative easing program on Monday. At closing, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.61 per cent to 6,961.14 ...