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| | | Aren't we, Australians all, just lucky? We come back from loooong holiday and then wake up to another big move higher on Wall Street. If we, Australians all, came back to work a day earlier we would have felt differently about today for apart from watching ... |
| | | | "Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ... |
| | | | Poor little rich kid. If you look at the performance of the Australian stock market since the start of the year and nothing else, you would be forgiven for concluding that the economy downunder is not enjoying the cheer of this yuletide season, no siree. ... |
| | | | Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ... |
| | | | It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ... |
| | | | A new report adds to mounting research that many Australians are ill-prepared for retirement with only one in 10 likely to have enough money to maintain their lifestyle once they quit the rat race. The Investment Trends September 2009 Retirement Income ... |
| | | | When global credit markets seized up in late 2008 and for much of 2009, Australia's blue chip companies were forced to look to equity markets for much needed funding. Almost $100 billion in new equity was raised, but the average investor didn't really ... |
| | | | You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ... |
| | | | How do you say ouch in Spanish? They say money can buy happiness... but only if you have more than your neighbours. Or twisted to reflect the current environment of fiscal restraint -- Aussies still whinging at the absence of big give-away door prizes ... |
| | | | ... not buy into this guesstimate, instead calculating Australia's unemployment rate to reach 5.5 per cent at worst. Call it luck, call it prescience, but whatever it is, the FSIU's forecast is certainly far closer to what is likely the cycle peak of 5.8 ... |
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