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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... higher as Wall Street had its best day in three months on better-than-expected United States economic growth figures. US gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 per cent in the third quarter, the surest sign yet that the recession there ...

Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... Superannuation has also been a key contributor to Australia avoiding a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. On a per capita basis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... reduced its expectation for the nation's economic output for the July-September period. Goldman Sachs expects third-quarter gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 2.7 per cent, weaker than its earlier forecast of 3 percent. Analysts said the ...

MLC FUM falls 19pc, in-force premiums rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... $79 million over the year to September Across MLC's insurance business, which includes personal and group risk insurance, gross income rose by $32 million or three per cent to $1 billion. Average annual in-force premiums grew by 11 per cent to $914 million. ...

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Superannuation helped Australia avoid a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. Superannuation has played a vital role in strengthening ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... falls among the 115 stocks traded. The NZ market had a buoyant start to trading on Tuesday. In early trading, the NZX 50 Gross was up 14.99 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 3146.17. The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after takeover optimism ...

Don't forget the economics: Macq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... Macquarie BRIC Advantage, said emerging markets are susceptible to extreme volatility caused by macro factors such as changes in gross domestic product (GDP) and the country's ability to service its debt. "Our research has shown that regardless of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... market got a boost from a new economic forecast by Barclay's Capital, which raised its projection for growth in the nation's gross domestic product for first three months of next year to five per cent from three per cent. GDP has been shrinking, although ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... fact that there's going to be a pull-back in September and October, and it's sort of happening, basically." Australian real gross domestic product (GDP) rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... at a one per cent annual pace in the second quarter, leaving unrevised an estimate from a month earlier. The figure for gross domestic product (GDP) was better than expected by analysts, who had forecast a revision to an annualised 1.5 per cent pace ...