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So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... underestimate the enormous challenge in turning their economy around. In yesterday's State of the Union address, President Bush said their recurrent fiscal budget is such a huge blackhole that it will take another four years for it even to come into ...

Oil rich city pours $17.1b in SRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... well as our own growth and development continues." During the World Future Energy Summit, Masdar presented President George Bush with its six-pronged plan to build Masdar City, the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city. The Masdar Initiative is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... US on Friday, multi-billion-dollar losses announced by major banks earlier in the week overshadowed US President George W Bush's outline of a $US150 billion economic stimulus plan. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 59.91 points to 12,099.30. There ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... mortgages and bonds) with an annual net loss of US$9.8 billion. Meantime, US and local commentators agree President George Bush's $US150 billion ($171 billion) rescue package have not gone far enough to allay investor fear that a weakening US and, possibly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... Shares of home builders, financial services companies and other housing-related companies soared after President George W. Bush unveiled a plan that would freeze interest-rate increases on adjustable-rate subprime mortgages for five years. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket started the week in full stride, after US President George Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured US investors they would work to rectify recent market troubles. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... prices are the three month PM kerb close on the London Metal Exchange. NEW YORK - US stocks surged on Friday as President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured investors they would do what was needed to shelter the economy from market ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... weather conditions have already impacted the world's main food producers, increasing inflation and raising price pressures, a bush tucker diet including feral cats may be the answer. According to Brian Turner, executive editor of UK personal news site ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... government will offer $958 million in subsidies to help Elders and Optus take high-speed broadband to Australians living in the bush. Prime Minister John Howard and Communications Minister Helen Coonan today announced that the Optus-Elders joint venture ...

ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... of the plan, telling Charles Woolley that not only was the plan under funded, it couldn't possibly bring services to the bush. "To achieve what they say they're going to achieve and the 98 per cent would take more like $40 billion, not just the money ...