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ANZ FP to focus on maintaining its muscle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... life risk and I guess that's in line with broader trends in the environment," Goodall said. "It's probably some of the best times this industry has seen since the mid-1990s, so if you're not doing well in this environment you're not doing it right." ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... risen by about three hundred per cent over the last couple of decades and that within the top 50 companies it is now 70 times average earnings versus the 20 times multiple of twenty years ago. The annual increase of the lowest paid workers in the recent ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... first 10 months of this year which is about thirty per cent higher than the whole of last year which was itself about three times what the figure of 2004 was. Chinese exports rose 29.6 per cent in the year to the end of October to $US88.1 billion although ...

Rate rise drives home loan innovation

... or upgrading their current home," he explained. In the past two years, the Reserve Bank has raised interest rates three times, with another 0.25 per cent hike likely to be announced today. Michelle Baltazar

Noonan replaces Wason on CBUS board

... Union (CFMEU) official Dave Noonan, following an election held last week. The decision came amid reports in the Canberra Times of a Federal CFMEU investigation into the ACT union branch, of which George Wason is the state secretary. Wason was unavailable ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... borrowing by businesses and households has slowed in line with expectations as the cost of capital has moved up a couple of times during the last year and is expected to move up another 0.25 per cent when the RBA meets next Tuesday. Total national private ...

Job mobility 12 per cent: ABS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... changed occupations. The ABS said young people are much more likely to change jobs as their job mobility rates can be five times that for older people. Illustrating this the ABS found job mobility for 20 to 24 year olds can be as high as 20 per cent ...

Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

... managers are hoping that markets "jump the couch", a new phrase inspired by Tom Cruise's now infamous act of jumping several times on the white, leather couch at the set of the Oprah Winfrey Show to demonstrate his love for then girlfriend (now fiancee) ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

... longest period in Australia, we have enjoyed very low interest rates so this is probably, in terms of economy, the best of times in Australian history." But he said that's had a negative effect in that "many have been lulled into this false sense of ...

Don't bury reverse mortgages in regulation: Martin

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... begins to breathe& it's less than 1 per cent of the whole of forward mortgages and we're going to have maybe three to four times the regulation," Martin said. "I think we need to focus on why we're all here, and it's to give retirees the retirement they ...