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NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... Commonwealth for its infrastructure recycling strategy, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced. Designed to incentivise NSW Premier Mike Baird's plan to lease 49% of the state's electricity network to invest in rail and road projects, the payments come from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... or 48.24 points, to close at 18,751.84. China's National People's Congress, the rubber-stamp legislature, opened with Premier Li Keqiang setting a growth target for this year of "approximately seven per cent", which would be the slowest in 25 years. ...

Baird to launch Sydney not-for-profit "fintech hub"

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced the development of Sydney's first financial technology hub. Located at 45 Clarence St, the hub (known as "Stone and Chalk") will provide technology start-ups with, as Baird put it, "subsidised office space to collaborate ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... meeting - or the next. Internationally, Wall Street could finally buckle under the weight of its overvaluation or Chinese Premier Li could maintain the 7.5% growth target - instead of the speculated lowering to 7.0% -- when the parliament meets for its ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... becoming the central theme of the upcoming state election campaign in NSW. Recognising this, Queensland's newly elected Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed that her first act will be to ensure public sector job safety and stop "any work to do with ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... Institute measure of consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in three years. Harvey Norman was down 19 cents at $3.41, Premier Investments was down 48 cents at $10.20 and Pacific Brands was 2.25 cents weaker at 49.25 cents. There was some gains in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... Group/Housing Industry Association's performance of construction index (PCI) for November is due out. In equities news, Premier Investments, Funtastic and Washington H Soul Pattinson have their annual general meetings. Origin chief executive Grant King ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... Prime Minister Li Keqiang told us what he likes, in black and white. Writing in Britain's The Times newspaper last June, Premier Li told us: "China's economy needs to grow at a proper rate, expected to be around 7.5 per cent this year. It is slower than ...

Anne-Marie Corboy: A career in retrospect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... management and 15 staff. Now, on the eve of her departure in early 2015, it has $29 billion and 120 staff. It has remained the premier industry fund for the health and community services sector, built a recognisable and respected brand, and delivered ...

Industry seizes China FTA opportunities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... currency bond, aiming to raise, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review, as much as $400 million. NSW Premier Mike Baird said: "NSW Treasury Corporation is always looking for opportunities to diversify its investor base, and one option ...