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Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... so-called housing affordability crisis as we'll be living in our prestige 4WDs that we bought on our credit cards anyway. ABC TV's 4 Corners last night ran a special expose on the US sub-prime crisis and its consequences. To view the program, please ...

Carbon trading for consumers: M2

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... plummeted suddenly to less than $6 in local trading. NSW State Opposition's environment spokeswoman, Pru Goward, told the ABC this week that the scheme is in trouble because the government issued too many abatement certificates and created an oversupply ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... economies. &We can expect to see serious inflationary pressures affect the USA and other major economies." Meanwhile in an ABC News report, in an Alice Springs bush food competition, feral cats are highly rated on the menu along with wild camel. You ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... this week with Suncorp Metway Ltd revealing its full year results today, as will Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund, and ABC Learning Centres Ltd. The nation's number one grocer, Woolworths Ltd is expected to release a record full year profit. Austereo ...

Councils exposed

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... Australia understood the degree of risk and embedded leverage in those products. Local Government Minister Paul Lynch told ABC Radio this week that his department and the NSW Treasury were investigating the level of councils' exposure and reviewing investment ...

Super choice overwhelms women

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
... superannuation products in the market today. Speaking as part of the "Adequacy for women in superannuation" forum, moderator and ABC reporter Geraldine Doogue said the choices can be "bewildering and perhaps overwhelming". "All these possibilities, it ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... current sub-prime calamity to the US savings and loan crisis of the 1980's. Chief Executive of NAB John Stewart, interviewed on ABC's Inside Business, said it could take as long as two years for the bad news to work out of the US sub-prime market. Sub-prime ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... holds its annual general meeting, Broker Findlay Securities lists, as do Anchor Resources and Zambezi Resources. In Perth, ABC Learning Centres Ltd holds an extraordinary general meeting. The Australian share market ended Wednesday lower, as lingering ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... could make a takeover offer for rival Rio Tinto. However, over the weekend, ABN Amro resources analyst Rob Clifford told the ABC network that he didn't believe the much-hyped BHP/Rio move would eventuate. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 58.1 ...

PE won't be allowed to cause systemic risks: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Speaking on ABC television from the UK, Treasurer Peter Costello said private equity activity won't be allowed to cause systemic problems while investors won't get away with tax avoidance. "I have had discussions here in the UK about private equity ...