Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2021 - 2030 of 2048 results for "CRA"

Economists expect sedate employment growth for September

Economists have forecasted that Australia's workforce is likely to grow at a more sedate pace in September after August's massive growth rate which culminated in the unemployment rate being at a 13-year low of 5.8 per cent. The median of market forecasts ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Flat trading for NSW, SA and ACT public holiday

Encouraging news from the US over the weekend helped the Australian share market close in positive territory today, led by the resource sector and News Corp. The gains came on relatively flat trading attributable to public holidays in NSW, South Australia ...

Labor proposes stronger corporate disclosure measures

Senator Stephen Conroy, the deputy opposition leader in the senate and the shadow minister for financial services and corporate governance, has said that the self-regulatory approach of the Government is incapable of tackling unbridled corporate greed ...

STOPS Fund to transfer to CARE Super

The $17 million Shipping and Travel Officers Productivity Superannuation Fund, (STOPS) plans to transfer to CARE Super, the not-for-profit super fund catering for office-based employees, in November, it has announced. STOPS chairman Bob Crabb explained ...

ACCC initiates legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
The competition watchdog said today it had started legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar leader Henry Kaye and the National Investment Institute Ltd (NII). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged Mr Kaye and ...

S&P lowers Lend Lease rating to BBB

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
International ratings agency Standard & Poor's said today that it lowered the long-term corporate credit rating on Lend Lease Corp Ltd to BBB from A-minus. S&P also removed the rating from creditwatch with negative implications, where it was placed ...

ATO to crack down on GST evasion

The tax office will take a tougher approach to consumers paying "under-the-table" for services following recommendations from a special black economy taskforce. The report, released yesterday by Tax Commissioner Michael Carmody, said the introduction ...

Government confident of garnering Democrats support for unfair dismissals bill

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2003
The Commonwealth Government said that it was confident of winning the Democrats' support for its proposed changes to unfair dismissal laws, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott said today. "I can assure you the government will reintroduce the bill ...

S&P predicts investment grade status for NBFI sector

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2003
Standard & Poor's has said the financially strongest companies in the Australian non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sector could potentially achieve investment grade status. However the sector remains dominated by a large number of non-investment-grade ...

UK brokerage firm to launch "socially irresponsible" investment fund

UK brokerage firm Willis Owen has unveiled plans to launch a 'vice' fund dedicated to putting money in companies shunned by ethical investment campaigners. This fund will focus in particular on "high dependency" stocks - such as shares in betting shops ...