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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... is notoriously a volatile figure because of the effect of occasional multi-unit developments. The ABS also announced that gross company operating profits increased by 3.3 per cent in the quarter to June but during this time inventories decreased while ...

Kiwisaver allows contributions to be diverted into mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... commence employment, will have eight weeks to elect to not contribute to the scheme, otherwise at least 4 per cent of their gross salary will be paid into a Kiwisaver approved savings scheme. Kiwisaver will be coodinated by the New Zealand Department ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... Bank of America Corp. were among the stocks giving the biggest lift to the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Government data on gross domestic product showed the economy slowed more than expected in the second quarter, lifting expectations that the Federal ...

Interest rate rise bad news for super contrib increase proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
... into a $40-a-month deficit," said Denis Orrock, general manager of Infochoice. Illustrating this, he said, a family with gross income of $60,000, an average-sized $250,000 mortgage on the typical variable home loan rate will be $37.35 worse off after ...

Depreciation changes boost property investment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... investing in property, shares or managed funds, should always focus on after-tax returns regardless of what the headline gross-returns may be. This focus has been championed recently by Vanguard, Navigator, Plan B, van Eyke, Maple-Brown Abbott, and the ...

Make higher contributions compulsory: Finsia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
... has today convened a seminar to present proposals as to why employees should be forced to contribute 3 per cent of their gross salaries into super. "The key questions we must ask ourselves are, do systemic barriers, and the attitudes and behaviours of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2006
... Troubled carpet-maker Feltex dominated trading in an otherwise listless New Zealand sharemarket. Overall, the benchmark NZX-50 gross index fell 3.96 points to 3587.86, with the NZX-All index down 0.56 points to 1028.60.

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2006
... sharemarket ended slightly down following a featureless session. After being down a dozen points in the morning, the NZX-50 gross index ended down 0.93 of a point at 3583.90. The NZX-All index closed 2.74 points lower at 1029.17.

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
... weaker New Zealand dollar and a generally feeling that further corporate activity was in the wind. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index ended 31.31 points higher at 3639.15 while the NZSX all capital index finished 4.80 points up at 1046.57.

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2006
... offshore bourses lower, although a late rally saw it escape the level of carnage seen across the Tasman. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index closed down 3.44 points at 3613.59, while the NZSX all capital index was off 2.16 points at 1041.14.