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Accommodation shopping? Try the local mall

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Many home-hunters may be better off heading for the local shopping centre. According to the latest figures property investment is back, but rather than putting a roof over our heads the money is going into shopping spaces. Analysts upbeat over the positive ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
With a tight labour market and skills shortages pumping up wages, commercial pilots look to be next to join the mile-high club in wages growth, adding to recent burgeoning national wages growth. Australia's wages are said to have grown at a record pace ...

China's market party gets louder

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
China's stock market party is getting wilder and no one is listening to calls to turn the music down - it seems that investors are just having too much fun. China is leading the world in IPO volumes and new share offerings are often doubling in value ...

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
It looks as though Reuters and Thomson, the second and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, are set to tie the knot in a match made in heaven. The boards of Reuters and Thomson have confirmed they are negotiating a union that will ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
Just as well the Federal Government included some infrastructure and education spending in the Budget, but considering the money wont begin to flow until 2009 our global competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the ...

A fist full of dollars

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello shook Australia's money tree last night, raining dollars down on tax payers, but can it bear the same yield in years to come when the mining boom ends? It's only reasonable to expect that, with such abundance as the Australian ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Ask 100 economists to predict the direction of interest rates, economic growth and inflationary pressures, and you would invariably get 100 different answers. In Cambodia they ask the royal cows. Heavily reliant on agriculture, Cambodia's ancient ploughing ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Tourism in New South Wales's is set to receive a government-sponsored boost in September as Sydney residents are given the big heave-ho. The APEC summit of world leaders, to be held from 7-9 September, is expected to cause traffic and transport chaos ...