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APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...

Some CLERP rules "excessively prescriptive"

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Some rules contained in the CLERP 9 legislative package were "excessively prescriptive", PricewaterhouseCoopers chief executive Tony Harrington warned today. The federal government's proposed changes to corporate laws were announced yesterday. "In general ...

Petroulias to stand trail after appear decision

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
Former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias will stand trial for allegedly defrauding the Commonwealth. The NSW Court of Appeal today overturned a decision to quash the charges against Petroulias, who was arrested on March 24, 2000 for an alleged ...

EU asks WTO to intervene in Australian quarantine dispute

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
The European Union formally asked the World Trade Organisation today to set up a panel of experts to rule on its simmering trade dispute with Australia on quarantine measures restricting imports of food products. The first request for a disputes settlement ...

RBA satisfied few businesses elected to surcharge credit cards

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
... in its annual report. "This response was expected by the board and is in line with experience in other countries where the rule has been banned." The RBA said the aim of the reform was to provide merchants with additional leverage in negotiating lower ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
Australian life insurer AMP Ltd is leaning towards returning ownership of its struggling British assets to shareholders rather than selling them off, a source close to the talks told Reuters on Monday. "At the moment it looks like the demerger is the ...

NZCC delays Qantas-Air New Zealand decision to October 24

The New Zealand Commerce Commission has delayed the release of its determination on the proposed Air New Zealand-Qantas alliance by up to four weeks. "We are working on our final economic analysis and calculations," said Geoff Thorn, acting general ...

ASIC releases new policy on takeover relief

... a partly paid share is in the same class as a fully-paid share, class order relief for companies that enter into listing rule escrows with holders, and class order relief so that employee share scheme securities that are non-transferable can be compulsorily ...

AMP updates market on demerger proposal

AMP Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mohl has released an update on the progress of the company's demerger proposal to the market. "In late August 2003, the UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) released an industry consultation paper, which ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

... force - before the Federal Reserve would move. They also said that the Federal Reserve would not be bound by such a simple rule, and nor should it be. It needs to take into account the stability of the financial system as well as the usual macroeconomic ...