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BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... and welfare, it is not so keen for the same constraints to be applied to executive salaries, an area where Prime Minister Rudd recently publicly appealed for business leaders to lead by example. "What we're seeing there is, I guess, a response to market ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... have water conserving showerheads and 15 per cent report using some type of water recycling method. To meet the Rudd government's proposals to cut our greenhouse gas production it's clear Australia has a long way to go, especially in terms of getting ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... and Corporate Law, said. "Reform of financial services disclosure requirements is the first instalment in the Rudd Government's deregulation agenda. Cutting red tape will reduce costs for business, investors and consumers." Sherry said unreadable disclosure ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... has fuelled inflation for the last couple of years. Now this is a significant problem, and it's about time the Rudd Government really got a handle on this issue by cutting petrol tax," he told the ABC. Meanwhile if rates do go up as expected then the ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
While economists regard the Rudd Government's announced five-point, anti-inflationary package as positive, it's not expected to be a threshold issue for the Reserve Bank. There are no hard specifics as to where savings will come from, but Labor expects ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... Research using about 5-10 indices for each country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession, but they are saying Rudd will have to create his own economic luck if he is ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... we will soon have to follow suit. Tim Jenkins, Mercer's Asia Pacific Retirement Leader said the newly elected Rudd government had little choice but to re-visit the issue. His comments follow the release earlier this year of a report by the Committee ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... Institute Inflation Gauge for November. In Sydney, the Post-Poll Telecom Agenda seminar on telecommunications policy under the Rudd Labor federal government will be held. Also in Sydney, the SatCom Australia 2007 conference on satellite communications ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... mid-high 80 cent level, oil prices will calm down and the doomsayers may go back into the bunker. But new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may also breathe a sigh of relief as the last thing a new Labor government trying to build economic credibility needs ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... had little impact on the market. "If Howard wins on Saturday... I think the market might get a bit of a jolt upwards." "If Rudd wins I don't think there will be much difference, I think we'll just keep travelling along as we are." At 1205 AEDT, BHP Billiton ...