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Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... interest rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will have a lot to digest when its Board meets today to deliberate on the country's monetary policy setting. However, the RBA has only one critical decision to make - by how much does it need to CUT ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... insurance sector after it acquired InsuranceLine, one of the largest direct distributor of life insurance products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million after first buying a 15 per cent stake in the company in 2005. InsuranceLine ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... there is some good news in Australia, this may not last for long. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's trade balance went into an A$1.4 billion surplus in August from a A$2.1 billion deficit in the previous month. This may ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... that we are in an urgent situation, and the consequences will grow worse each day if we do not act' and warned that 'Our country is not facing a choice between government action and the smooth functioning of the free market. We're facing a choice between ...

Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... outcome of the maladies in the US is that Asian governments and investors are now looking to Australia as an example of a country with a robust financial and regulatory system. "It's a super positive for Australia from the point of view of Asia looking ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... feeling the pain, as its trade balance went into deficit in August. This is the first time since January this year that the country's external balance was in deficit. However, excluding the January figure, this is the first since 1982. With other indicators ...

AMP Capital appoints infra co-head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... Fund. The fund invests in infrastructure projects mainly in India and China. Prior to joining AMP, Xiao worked as China country manager of US power development company AES and chief executive of AES China Generating Co. He was also previously the China ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Index firm FTSE has launched the Australia version of the established FTSE4Good Global index, which features the country's 'green' companies and is also a means to compare company best practice. The FTSE4Good Australia 30 Index contains Australia's ...

FTSE 'watches' Greece and South Korea

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... the promotion Taiwan to 'developed' status and Greece being demoted to 'advanced emerging' status. FTSE classifies each country into four categories: developed, emerging, secondary emerging and frontier. The firm assesses all countries using a methodology ...