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Small business confidence at 11 year high - survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2004
Australia\'s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing the strongest business conditions in more than a decade, a quarterly business index reported today. The August Sensis Business Index has found that business confidence had risen 6% during ...

Chin takes on credit and portfolio risk at Tyndall

... for the new role. "She will help the Tyndall team further build on the premier position we have achieved over the past decade as a specialist Australian fixed interest manager," he said. Chin left her previous role in the fixed interest funds management ...

News Corp signs Peter Chernin to five-year contract as COO

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2004
... and the new agreement will be effective on 1 August, 2004. \"Peter has been a close and trusted colleague for more than a decade and I am delighted that News Corporation will continue to have the benefit of his dynamic qualities for many years to come,\" ...

LPT's generating greater risk; RetireInvest

... which were aided by falling interest rates and a strong economy - an environment which is unlikely to continue in the next decade," Callinan said. Callinan added that structural changes had also taken place within LPT's, including an increase in the ...

ASX report finds property performs better than shares

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
... trading Lyn Armstrong said. Asked if people would have been better off investing in property than in shares over the past decade, she said: "Over that particular time period, yes." The annual ASX Investment Performance Report, prepared by Towers Perrin ...

New AMP fund puts small scale investors into China

... the mushrooming Chinese economy via its top 25 companies. China's GDP is expected to grow at 8% per annum over the next decade. AMP Capital Investors said a 12% annual return from the China Fund would be a "good performance", with potential for far greater ...

Bush renominates Alan Greenspan as Fed chairman

President George W Bush renominated Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve overnight, praising his leadership and sending a strong signal of stability to financial markets. The nomination was announced as Greenspan met at the White House ...

Fitch: investment properties more risky than owner-occupied

... performed better than owner-occupied loans, the demographic and risk profiles of the investment loans had changed over the past decade, Fitch said. It noted the Reserve Bank of Australia said in its Financial Stability Review in March, that investment ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

The Federal Reserve held a main short-term interest rate at a 46-year low today in an attempt to keep the US economy humming. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues - the group that sets interest rate policy in ...

Super Cheap Auto gears up for IPO

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2004
... the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by late May. The 30-year-old company has grown rapidly in the past decade, ramping up from seven stores in 1993 to 173 across every Australian state and territory and across the Tasman in 2004. More ...