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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Corp if it proves too expensive. Saskatchewan's premier said the province won't support BHP Billiton's bid, but Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a softer line, describing the deal in Parliament as "a proposal for an American-controlled company ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... just hear US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner cursed the undervalued yuan? There goes another... this time from Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan. But underneath China's strong export growth - up 25.1 per cent in the year to September - is also a corresponding ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... In equities news, Brazil-focussed explorer BrazIron Ltd is due to list on the Australian Securities Exchange on Monday. Prime Minister Julia Gillard is scheduled to take part in a conversation with Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly and Telstra chair ...

Govt to offer more choices on FHSAs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... appealing to first home owners following proposed changes released this week. The draft legislation announced by the deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan offers more concessions that will make FSHAs a more appealing means to save for property. ...

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... Superannuation Guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent in the upcoming parliament, a policy opposed by the Coalition. But the Prime Minister indicated last week that the Government might not be able to maintain all of its policy commitments under a ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Shorten takes on superannuation portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Andrea Slattery, chief executive of SPAA. There is speculation that if it wasn't for Shorten's role in the demise of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Shorten would have been granted a cabinet post. Nonetheless his appointment to the junior ministry ...

Moving forward with Gillard

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... parliament. "We welcome the end of the uncertainty, with the decision by the independent members of parliament to support Prime Minister Gillard," said Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Australia (ASFA) "We urge ...

Investors plough $7bn to commercial property

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... higher valued sale property. Some of the larger property transactions in recent months include the $3.8 billion purchase of prime office assets by North-American company Brookfield Properties Corporation and the $1.4 billion sale of the ING Retail Property ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... June quarter trading update. Annual results are due from Peet Ltd, Billabong International Ltd, Specialty Fashion Group, Prime Media Group Ltd, Consolidated Media Holdings, Spotless Group Ltd, Austal Ships, Charter Hall Retail Trust DUET Group, and Telecom ...