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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher ahead of the federal budget and after both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 points at 5,468. Analysts ...

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... also said that part of cause of this pressure - as the Abbott government is now finding out as it prepares for its first budget - is that tax changes introduced by former Prime Minister John Howard have allowed too many high income people to have access ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street mostly gained following more conciliatory statements by Russia's president amid the Ukraine crisis and the Federal Reserve chair's Congressional testimony. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
The share market is lower due to falls on overseas markets and uncertainty about what will be contained in next week's Federal budget. "The federal budget is having a big dampening impact on buying in the market, and until that is done and dusted there's ...

Higher pension age to drive increase in early super releases

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
The government's decision to lift the pension age has raised the ire of advocates for manual workers but these workers represent only a minority of the workforce. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 10% of Australia's 11.5 million labour ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
Writing about financial market action these days has become an exercise in zzz's - that is, you have to exercise to avoid getting the zzz's. Sure they gyrate from one day to the other - some even intra-day - but overall action remains boring overall. ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have given little away about their involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this ...

Port of Newcastle leased for $1.75bn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
The NSW government has leased the Port of Newcastle to a consortium of investors including the Chinese government, for $1.75 billion. The consortium is comprised of Australia's Hastings Funds Management and China Merchants, a Chinese state-owned corporation. ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
No surprise, no surprise. Another month... another US$10 billion off the Fed's asset shopping budget and more stressing that interest rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's ...