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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) appear before the House of Representatives economics committee inquiry into banking competition. Nylex Ltd and Western Desert Resources hold extraordinary general meetings. Quantum Resources ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... deliver a market update while, in Melbourne, ANZ and Bankwest will appear before the House of Representatives Economics Committee's inquiry into competition in the banking and non-banking sectors. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd chief executive Mark Cutifani will ...

Account switching is too much trouble

... to move transaction accounts is one of the issues that will be considered by the House of Representatives Economics Committee inquiry into banking competition, which starts its public hearings on Friday in Melbourne. In a statement issued in February ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... economic news today, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens appears before the House of Representatives Economics Committee in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release retail trade data for February. In equities news, QBE holds ...

Senate C'tee rebuffs calls to lower foreign withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... has released a study arguing our local funds management industry could be a major export earner, the Senate Economics Committee has rejected industry lobbying that foreign investor withholding tax be lowered. "The case is not well made that this change ...

Employers should give TFNs to super funds: Mercer

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... additional 31.5 per cent tax on top of the normal 15 per cent contributions tax. In a submission to the Senate Economics Committee Mercer has recommended that employers should be required to pass on current employees' TFNs (where they are known) to the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... results, and Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane is set to address the House of Representatives Economics Committee public hearing. The Australian share market hit one month highs yesterday as merger and acquisition activity buoyed trading ...

Industry bodies in joint move to improve financial literacy

... superannuation savings in Australia IFSA is planning to furnish a submission to the House of Representatives Economics Committee which is examining issues surrounding superannuation for people under the age of 40. Increased investor education, encouragement ...

Report calls for tougher limits on RBA board members

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2004
... role with finance companies, including mortgage brokers and investment trusts, the influential parliamentary economics committee has recommended. The committee also called for mortgage brokers and providers of low-documentary loans to come under the ...

RBA says forecasting 3.75% growth in 2004

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2004
... calendar 2004 is now 3.75%," he said. Mr Macfarlane is giving his twice-yearly evidence to the parliamentary economics committee in Sydney. Committee chairman David Hawker said this would be almost certainly the last hearing before the federal election ...