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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... employment in Australia which is apparently more than many other industry sectors including mining; electricity, gas and water supply; banking and finance; and TV, radio and media. This is a good sign for a hopefully more competitive Australian economy. ...

Employment mobility figures revised

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... most likely to come from the following industries; Agriculture, forestry and fishing (51 per cent), Electricity, gas and water (42 per cent), Education (38 per cent) and Government administration and defence (35 per cent). These figures show the changing ...

Macquarie Clean Tech Fund raises $120m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... in this area to be compelling, largely on the back of significant increases in consumer demand in clean energy, air and water," he said. Consumer demand for cleaner energy sources is expected to make the sector an attractive investment, said Murphy. ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... institutions participating in carbon markets. At risk companies are those exposed to fuel costs or vehicle numbers, agriculture and water intensive industries, insurers mispricing catastrophe risk and those that are hard-wired to energy costs. The best ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... lost 183.37 points to 18,842.99. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket recovered from early losses, continuing to tread water just below recent record highs. The NZSX-50 benchmark index closed down 1.55 points at 3853.47, 13 points above its session ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... of the most polluted cities in the world are in China, China leads the world by a large margin with three times as many water pollutants as its nearest competitor the US whose economy is presently five and a half times the size of the Chinese one. China ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Consumers waste up to $2 billion per year in fees on unnecessary multiple accounts and it's time something was done about it, CHOICE said in watershed report released yesterday. The report by the peak consumer group CHOICE, The Super Secret: how multiple ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... has given the federal government the upper hand of legal authority in matters relating to health, universities, energy and water utilities and the power to govern corporate activity as tested via the recent challenge to the Work Choices legislation by ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... Australian States of South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland have agreed to urgently introduce trading of water in order and to spend hundreds of millions on water conservation projects in the face of the current drought that has about ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... wages, wealth and economic equation& is the 9 per cent SG." Despite his passion for boosting savings, Keating poured cold water on the idea that the Future Fund was a solution to Australia's unfunded superannuation liabilities. Keating said national ...