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Major industrial nations see strong economic growth ahead

... Bank's policy-setting committee on how to help developing countries improve living standards for poor people. World Bank President James Wolfensohn said there is a reasonable chance the international community will achieve the first of a series of ambitious ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
... after its chairman and chief executive, Jim Cantalupo, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack. The company named President and Chief Operating Officer Charlie Bell as CEO to succeed Cantalupo. Investors snapped up tech heavyweights Nokia Corp and ...

News Corp appoints directors

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2004
... replace Graham Kraehe, who resigned to become chairman of troubled National Australia Bank. Former Phillip Morris Asia president Peter Barnes and 36-year-old law professor and adviser to the Bush Administration Viet Dinh would join the board immediately ...

Report reveals $8.2 billion tax breaks for rich

... cars given to high-flying staff as part salary sacrifice packages cost $1 billion in lost tax a year alone. Council president Andrew McCallum said other forms of tax assistance to high-income earners were preventing the government from helping those ...

Market Wrap

... Australian bonds had followed US Treasuries lower overnight following comments from San Francisco Federal Reserve (Fed) President Robert Parry, who said the Fed could not keep the funds rate at current levels forever. NAB strategists said local bonds ...

Elliott appeal dismissed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... from 10 to seven years. Lawyers for Elliott won a 21-day stay while the former Liberal Party and Carlton Football Club president considers whether to appeal against the latest decision. Elliott is also facing bankruptcy proceedings over the collapse ...

US March job growth at four-year high, stuns market

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
... report, which showed the labor market finally making a decisive break out of a long slump, buoyed the re-election hopes of President George W. Bush, who has been blasted by Democrats over the jobs lost on his watch. Markets judged it brought nearer the ...

Bovis Lend Lease Americas appoints COO

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
... company Bovis Lend Lease Americas, effective immediately. Mr Marchetto moves to the position from his former position as president of Bovis Lend Lease Americas Northeast Central region. Mr Marchetto joined Lend Lease in 1979, and has been involved with ...

S&P executive says investors reward transparency

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
... rewarded by investors, an expert from ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) told a conference yesterday. Executive vice president credit market services at S&P, Vickie Tillman, said Worldcom, Enron, Parmalat and Australia's HIH were examples of why ...

AFA launches estate planning programme

... (AFA) has introduced an estate planning programme in conjunction with the Australian College of Financial Services. AFA president Robin Yates said many Australians did not plan for death and its impact on loved ones and the programme would ensure advisers ...