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

Search Results

Showing 211 - 220 of 271 results for "ABC"

Short selling faces revamp

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... corporations act. The Senator's comments come after the severe share price plunges of listed companies including childcare group ABC Learning Centres and Allco Finance Group. "There is some relatively minor surgery needed to the Corporations Act because ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... output by 60 per cent by 2050 may be much tougher than we realise. Illustrating the disconnect, it is being reported by the ABC today that plastic bag use by Australian shoppers increased by 25 per cent last year to 4 billion despite the introduction ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... bonus from increased profits from the corporate sector was redistributed by the Howard government to the battlers," he told ABC radio yesterday. But even leading economists have dismissed the call, arguing that to freeze expenditure would constrain the ...

Hard landing if we don't heed RBA warnings

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... tightening in March with another move after that being priced in also albeit not at the same levels just yet, he said. The ABC yesterday reporting that RBA board meeting minutes reveal they "believed a 0.5 per cent rate rise would have sent a strong ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon, executive director of IMF Australia told ABC's Inside Business this week that 35 to 40 councils have so far been affected by the massive devaluation of Collateralised ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... significant problem, and it's about time the Rudd Government really got a handle on this issue by cutting petrol tax," he told the ABC. Meanwhile if rates do go up as expected then the news just gets worse for the government because property investment ...

Tricom trading on unusual terms

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... representatives working from the office of Tricom in Sydney to monitor margin loans. Tricom managing director Lance Rosenberg told ABC Radio that "in my judgement no one will lose their money & We fully intend to be in business. We fully intend to rebuild ...

RBF and MGI buy $350m airport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... management last year. To date, RBF already has $188 million invested in infrastructure managed by Hastings and AMP Capital. In ABC News, Paul Lennon, premier of Tasmania, said the purchase was a clear indication of the level of confidence in the Tasmanian ...

Investors want to unpack asset-backed transactions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
The securitisation industry needs to increase the level of transparency in its investor reporting to overcome scepticism about securitised products, the Reserve Bank has warned. RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle told the annual conference of the Australian ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... perfect storm looming on the horizon, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Simon Johnson, IMF chief economist told ABC TV's Business Lateline program last night that the credit crisis could undermine international trade and lead to a dramatic ...