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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... the Australian dollar traded between 98.92 US cents and 99.29 cents. ICAP senior economist Adam Carr said the federal government's flood levy would only have a small economic impact and the Australian dollar was more likely being affected by national ...

Growth spoiler

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... supplies dwindle. Make no mistake, the Australian economy would take a beating over the next few quarters. And the Federal Government worries that it would not be able to return the Budget into surplus by 2012/13? Overall, the impact of the flood on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... big four banks and miners, but smaller banks lost ground amid expectations they will be hardest hit by the federal government's banking reforms, unveiled on Sunday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 11.2 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 4,757.1 points ...

ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... be lifted from its current rate of 9 per cent of wages to the more sustainable figure of 12 per cent, as the Federal Government has proposed. The research by the ISN's Dr Sacha Vidler found that a significant proportion of payouts are used for short-term ...

Calls to fast track higher SG: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... Majority of the survey's respondents said they want a faster deadline than what is currently outlined by the Federal Government. Currently, an installments program will be put into action after three years where there will be two smaller steps of 0.25 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... contract was 10 points lower at 4,796 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the markets are waiting on the Federal Government's release of its mid-year economic review, to be released in Canberra. Dun & Bradstreet also releases its business expectations ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... the ANZ, NAB and Westpac to follow suit) - the Australian dollar virtually at parity and the "impact" of the Federal Government's spending "now lessening", certainly economic activity would slow a bit and the "the risk of inflation rising again over ...

Cbus hires Frontier and AustralianSuper execs

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... and related campaigns. Mark Ward also joins Cbus as communications manager. He has worked at local, state and federal government levels, most recently as a federal government media adviser. Cbus is the industry super fund for the construction, building ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... from substantial tax savings. Such opportunities opened up for Australian financial institutions after the Federal Government announced in May that it would begin to phase down Australia's interest withholding tax on interest paid on some offshore borrowings. ...

Singapore to win asset mgmt race: report

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... Australia was not case studied in the report, however the predictions for Singapore come during a time when the Federal Government seeks to promote the country as a financial services hub. For instance, the former Rudd Government cut withholding tax ...