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Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... geological and climate issues. Christchurch in New Zealand had been devastated by another earthquake that came just as the country is still rebuilding the damage done by the first big one in September last year. And Australia's still picking up the pieces ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... the Middle East. Just like in 1989, several regimes in one region became a thing of the past as civil uprisings in one country emboldened protests in another... then another. Back then, the tour of people power started in Poland in the spring of 1989. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... Libya did have an effect, particularly in its former colonial overlord Italy -- a top foreign investor in Libya and a country in which the North African state has also invested billions. Libya's sovereign wealth fund and veteran ruler Moamer Kadhafi's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... surged in January, while the trade surplus fell 53.5 per cent to $US6.45 billion ($A6.46 billion), providing a boost to the country's growth prospects. Exports increased 37.7 per cent from a year earlier, while imports jumped 51 per cent, the General ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Gone in 18 days! The New Year's fresh events risk that was Egypt has gone with the departure of the country's strongman. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ultimately forced to abandon the throne his bum had been glued onto for 30 years by 18-days ...

Henderson Maxwell launches DIY planning guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... those who can't afford a planner or they are self starters, for example there are 430,000 self-managed super funds in the country and the trustees of those, of which there are about 900,000 members, would be interested in this approach."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... China said after its market closed on Tuesday that it would raise interest rates for the third time since October. The country's economic boom has resulted in higher prices, forcing some poor families to spend up to half of their incomes on food. Many ...

iShares increases ETF range

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... the largest 200 companies in Australia, while the S&P/ASX 20 gives instant access to the 20 largest blue-chips in the country. The S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries and S&P/ASX High Dividend enable instant access to the Small Ordinaries Index and high dividend ...

NAB FP to increase planner nums 20 pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... but instead taking advantage of the opportunity to help customers in this area, and create a broad capability across the country. "We are certainly not dropping our focus, just expanding it. To give you an indication we will be putting on just over 100 ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... Hosni Mubarak in Cairo were inspired by similar protests in nearby Tunisia that last week lead to the downfall of that country's corrupt President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who since fled to Saudi Arabia. The uprising in Egypt is however much more serious ...