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Fraud reforms to cost much more than FSR

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2004
... Summit heard yesterday. Speaking on money laundering and terrorist financing, the head of National Australia Bank's terrorism financial sanctions unit, Neil Woods, said the cost to organisations of implementing the money laundering reforms would outweigh ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
... equity markets. The Australian sharemarket lifted slightly yesterday, as resources propelled a tentative recovery from terrorism-related falls late last week. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index rose 9.2 points to 3411.5 while the all ordinaries index was ...

Costello promises surplus with hope for tax cut this year

... we would like to do it. "If you can balance your Budget, keep your debt low, pay for your defence expenditures, your terrorism responsibilities and your education, then I think you should try and work to reduce taxes so people get some of their own money ...

Survey reveals 90% rise in small and medium cap resource companies

... predicts an average price of US$415-420, supported by the weak US dollar, global uncertainty surrounding the threat of terrorism and the continuing consolidation of mining companies leading to lower levels of exploration.

Morning Market Wrap: Investors expecting confidence boost

... could serve to delay the next lift in rates until 2004. "A sharp plunge in the US dollar or a major destabilising act of terrorism could cause the RBA to stay on the interest rate sidelines until February 2004. "But on economic grounds, another small ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares dip following Istanbul bombings

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2003
... premium to the underlying index - on a volume of 9,676 contracts. "The market closed down, certainly on the back of these terrorism concerns which pull backed the US overnight as well," Macquarie Equities client adviser Helen Spencer said. Overnight ...

Midday Market Wrap: Turkey terror impacts market

... negative day following on the lead from Wall Street," ABN AMRO Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said. "Certainly the terrorism issues are dominating the market sentiment today." In the United States overnight stocks closed lower as investors, shaken ...

Morning Market Wrap: Investor jitters after weekend terrorist attacks

... the correction from last week's gains was sharper than expected," a dealer at a European bank in Madrid said, adding: "Terrorism fears have also weighed." In Sydney today, markets are likely to come under pressure again after offshore indices endured ...

Maccquarie Airports peaks on Sydney Airport earnings jump

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2003
... Heffernan. The stock has been steadily recovering from well below $1 as recently as April, when concerns about the Iraq war, terrorism and SARS caused a fall off in international travel. Macquarie Airports shares also suffered from poor investor sentiment ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

... practical benefits to businesses in the region. In the context of a more uncertain region, shaken by crises such as terrorism and SARS, and in light of developments in Cancun, APEC cannot afford to become complacent. APEC must strive to be more flexible ...