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China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Politburo's implementation of "mini-stimulus" measures that include infrastructure spending, credit relaxation and expansion to rural banks and small borrowers and business fee and tax reductions. Stronger economic growth, in turn, is having appositive ...

CBA sees two top execs step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... replacement and is expecting to make an announcement before the end of the year. Petersen joined CBA as a graduate in the Rural Bank of NSW, and for the past 10 years has been a member of the group executive committee in three different leadership roles. ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... economy..." What happened since? We got Beijing's mini stimulus, we had the PBOC lowering reserve requirements for small and rural banks (and increased the number of those banks that qualifies to the cut) and, as per Bloomberg, "China's new yuan loans ...

UBS launches farmland investment service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... Bydand, ensures we are well equipped to provide Australian farmers with an equity solution that recognises the issues facing rural and regional Australia. This includes enabling farmers to achieve further farmland productivity growth and greater economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to rise after a boost to tech stocks lifted Wall Street. At 0651 AEST on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,436. In local economic news on Tuesday, the minutes of Reserve Bank ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... Black Spot funding, and $350 million extra for Roads to Recovery will deliver jobs and better roads across regional and rural Australia. But these projects will do more than create construction jobs. They will inject money into communities, lower business ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... and Adelaide Bank was in a trading halt after announcing that it would buy the Victorian government's agribusiness lender Rural Finance Corporation for $1.78 billion. In the resources sector, BHP Billiton added 25 cents to $37.52, Rio picked up 52 cents ...

Bendigo Bank lifts cash profit

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... increase in people making additional efforts to pay down their debt," he said. "This is most evident in our mortgage and our Rural Bank portfolios." Hirst said he expected conditions to be roughly the same in the second half. The bank announced a fully-franked ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on international markets after new Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's promise that monetary policy would continue and strong Chinese trade data. At 0850 AEDT on Thursday, the March share ...

RFM tangled up on wine, chicken and almond saga

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
Rural Funds Management (RFM) plans to marry wine, chicken and almond investments into an ASX-listed fund have stumbled into yet another obstacle after the company itself admitted to issuing false statements. "It has been brought to our attention by ...