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The federal government should intervene to help retirees spend their superannuation and avoid the savings system ending up as "a massive inheritance scheme", the Grattan Institute warns.  

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US Fed member Loretta Mester says investors may have expected a rate cut in the US in March, but she wants to see more signs that inflation is definitely downwards before rates are lowered, and we’re not there yet.

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Australia's third biggest bank by market capitalisation, ANZ, has posted another record half-year profit. The bank's preferred measure - the cash profit - rose 11 per cent to $3.5 billion in the six months to the end of March. That compares to a result $3.18 billion in the same period a year earlier. The statutory net profit jumped 15 per cent to $3.4 billion from $2.9 billion a year ago.

David Jones says consumers remain gloomy despite sales conditions steadying since the eurozone’s debt problems sparked a slowdown in spending at the department store last year.