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Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the wage price index for June quarter, the Housing Industry Association releases its trades report for the same quarter while the Westpac/Melbourne Institute's Survey of Consumer ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Statement on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is on in Melbourne. In equities news, News Corp and REA Group post full ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... ASPAC-KPMG head of financial services Simon Gleave. The expert panel debated everything from the slowdown in China to housing bubble fears. Ong expressed concern about a surprise jump in domestic unemployment to 6.4% which she said represented a loss ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Statistics releases July labour force data and June overseas arrivals and departures figures. The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association performance of construction index (PCI) for July is also expected. In equities news, 21st Century ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... September share price index futures contract was down 31 points at 5,443. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases its trades report for the June quarter. The Diggers and Dealers conference is on in Kalgoorlie ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... transition they've been trying to engineer is occurring," he said. The unchanged rate would lead to continued growth in the housing sector, he said. "From a growth perspective the pick-up in residential construction is one part of the transition that ...

AIST slams Xenophon's super home loan proposal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... argued this would make buying a first home more affordable. But Garcia said while AIST shared Xenophon's concern over housing affordability, superannuation was not the answer. "The purpose of superannuation is to enable all Australians to have enough ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... modestly stronger decline than analysts' consensus estimate of 0.8 per cent drop. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Housing Industry Association releases June's new home sales data. In equities news, Perseus Mining is expected to post its quarterly ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... in US new home sales in June) and down by 7.3% on the year. Just one month's number or a digit that marks that the US housing market has peaked? Too (or two), there's the nagging question of valuation - stretched, just right or still Jenny Hawkins attractive. ...