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ASEAN nations to push for FTA with Australia

South-East Asia's economic ministers said today they would urge their leaders to finally broker a free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand. The economics ministers, meeting for one day in Singapore, will also recommend the leaders of Australia ...

Single economic market for Australia and New Zealand getting closer

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... themselves to quickening the pace towards a single economic market, but a single currency is still off the agenda. Prime ministers John Howard and Helen Clark said both countries were keen to see a single economic market crossing the Tasman, going beyond ...

FTA $4 billion benefit figure should be revised: expert

... benefits of the Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA), an international economist said today. In recent days, some ministers have put the economic benefit of the deal at around $4 billion, a figure based on a previous government-commissioned report ...

Market Wrap

... plan to spin off its stake in Blockbuster Inc. Oil stocks rose as crude oil futures jumped more than a dollar after ministers of oil-producing countries surprised the market with an agreement to cut output by 1 million barrels a day effective April 1. ...

Market Wrap

... the euro overnight. The euro initially dipped against the US dollar after a news report said European Union finance ministers will discuss "all possible ways" to curb euro gains, raising the prospect of possible US dollar buying. The euro pared its decline ...

Market Wrap

... percentage point rise in the first half of this year. As well, the communique from the Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in Florida over the weekend signalled that the period of acute US dollar weakness and euro strength has gone far enough. ...

Australia, New Zealand moving toward single economic market

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
... Minister Michael Cullen, said there had been significant progress made towards trans Tasman business integration. The two ministers, speaking to reporters last week said they were building on the Closer Economic Relations (CER) agreement towards a single ...

Government's latest super bills face criticism from opposition

... high-income earners and co-contribution to low-income earners has led to further debate at the Federal level, with opposition ministers criticising the new bill. For its part the Federal Government has said that the passage of the superannuation surcharge ...

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 ...

Focus on China-US bilateral trade in upcoming Dubai summit: ICAP

G7 finance ministers are to get together this weekend in Dubai to compare notes, whilst the outlook for economic growth appears to be better than it has been for some years, economists at ICAP said in their Weekly Insights report released today. ICAP ...