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Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
Just as well the Federal Government included some infrastructure and education spending in the Budget, but considering the money wont begin to flow until 2009 our global competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to slip back slightly today after a record run as Qantas remains in a trading halt and the market awaits the outcome of today's Federal budget. At 0811 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

... future deal flow about to impact the market. Assuming some of the major current takeovers succeed, you can easily get a figure of over $60 billion over the next few months," said Thomas. The Index found that investor losses during February, at the height ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher again today after further gains on overseas markets. At 0735 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading up 34 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 6280. In economic ...

Confidently counting our chickens

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
With inflation at a two-year low most economists are tipping there's next to no chance the RBA will hatch an interest rate rise this month. In fact, Foxtel's business news was headlining that RBA rates were on hold, just hours after the CPI figures ...

Aussies finally get life insurance message: IFSA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Life and wealth protection sales grew by nearly 16 per cent in the 12 months to December 2006, according to new figures released yesterday by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). The sales increase comes after a major study by TNS ...

Good thing bananas don't pay rent

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
If bananas becoming luxury goods were a key driver of the 0.1 per cent lift in inflation, then escalating rents could be the next black cloud on our inflation horizon. The problem is increasing rents, which experienced their biggest quarterly rise in ...

Inflation up but lower than expected

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... regular inflation (measured by the CPI) also came in lower than anticipated. Many would blame the flat wholesale inflation figure on deflated import prices and indeed the hardy Australian dollar reducing the cost of imported goods by 1.1 per cent, providing ...

Barclays to buy ABN AMRO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
Barclays has agreed to purchase rival ABN AMRO in a US$91 billion deal, creating the world's largest asset manager and the eighth largest wealth manager, with 47 million customers. However, reports emerged yesterday of a possible rival bid from the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
The Australian Bureau of Statistics today releases highly anticipated Consumer Price Index data, which the market will look to for an indication of future monetary policy and a direction on official interest rates. In company news, Caltex today hosts ...