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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... underpinning inflationary pressures. The level of economic analysis involved in the water debate has been questioned by Federal Treasury Secretary Dr Ken Henry who says that his department has had little to do with the $10 billion water package announced ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... development with news that the fund is now $20 billion above target and in excess of three years ahead of planning according to Treasury estimates. Towards the end of 2009, about $33 billion is due to enter the Future Fund which would then make it five ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... years negotiating with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), the Treasury, various state Fair Trading Offices and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in the lead-up to the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... Sydney Futures Exchange at 0743 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up three points at 5,879. Today, the NSW Treasury will release the cost of Premier Morris Iemma's election promises, expected to total $1.6 billion, The Australian reports. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... from the export dollars earned over the last few years. The existing reserves which have largely been invested in US Treasury bonds have been earning only a few per cent compared to the double digit returns available elsewhere. NSW Premier Morris Iemma ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... per cent over the last year against the US currency although American economists see this as too little. United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who has been managing relations with China has taken the stance that there is no point making an enemy ...

PE investment in UK boosts job: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... disclosure would operate and what it was meant to achieve compared to current requirements. Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury, Ed Balls, said, "Private equity is an important part of the UK financial services sector and can play an important wider ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... strong competition in that market has meant that many financially distressed customers are being allowed even more credit. Treasury officials have recently told a Senate estimates committee that housing affordability was at a historic low at a time when ...

Macq making progress on restructure

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
Macquarie Bank has had "positive discussions" with the Commonwealth Treasury about legislative change needed for it to move to a non-operating holding company structure. Macquarie chief executive Allan Moss said the bank was encouraged by feedback from ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
Federal Treasury has released a report saying that Australian spending on infrastructure has fallen so much so that on a per capita basis it now ranks 16 out of 22 countries in the study. Infrastructure investment rose from 3.2 per cent of GDP in 1987 ...