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The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Announcement of more government bail-outs and this time, in the US, accompanied by US President Obama's pledge to correct the budget deficit to soothe investors worried about an exit plan. By all indications, the worst of the worst have all been priced ...

WHK sells NEXT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... impacted by "adverse market conditions" and changes to the deductibility of instalment products in the May 2008 Federal Budget, according to a company statement. The sale will enable the firm to pay off debt in-line with the WHK Group's intention to ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... bank it seems -- over the problem. Investors worry over how the bucket load of money will be spent and how the ballooning budget deficit will ultimately be repaid. Here, the exit strategy presented by US President Barack Obama is worth watching as it ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... bubble. One of his key recommendations was to introduce subsidised financial advice explaining that if the government can budget for discounts in the health sector, the public should get the same privileges to help avert the next crisis. Millions of ...

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Financial services firms will turn to IT systems that can alert them sooner to credit risk issues, particularly with the government-led bail-put programs making them accountable to their country's regulatory and political heads. Laurence Trigwell, global ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... convened by President Obama gave an end point to the long run - within the next four years. Obama promised to cut America's budget deficit - reported to be around US$1.3 billion - by half by the end of his first term in office. To do this, he mentioned ...

Sherry attacks Hockey on super policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... business for a certain period of time. The government assessed the potential cost of the proposal and found it could cost the budget $43 billion over four years if the full nine per cent was paid. "Spooked by the costings, they've now flipped and flopped ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated $16 million to the Australian Taxation Office to manage the tendering ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... even the government is having difficulty implementing fiscal stimulus measures. Last month, the Parliament passed an extra budget worth 4.8 trillion yen that comprised of business tax credits and a 12,000 yen cash handout for each taxpayer to stimulate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... billion) in emergency aid. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said on Tuesday that he would resign after passing the budget for next fiscal year, following criticism of his behaviour at a weekend G7 news conference in Rome, though the news may ...