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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... spending by more than 11 per cent which is the biggest increase in these investment expectations since 1990. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat has reported a 24 per cent increase in the trade deficit with China until July of this year and ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... far this has cost $1.2 billion. The importance of Russia in the world economy is set to grow as members of the European Union seek to shore up supplies of Russian oil and gas reserves. With Europe requiring most of its energy needs to be imported within ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
... departures from Australia were up by 4.1 per cent. The European Central bank has decided to lift interest rates for the European Union by 0.25 per cent to 3.25 per cent which is the highest rate in about four years. Interest rates in the EU arte now ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
... departures from Australia were up by 4.1 per cent. The European Central bank has decided to lift interest rates for the European Union by 0.25 per cent to 3.25 per cent which is the highest rate in about four years. Interest rates in the EU arte now ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... fall. The follow on effects of the state of the US economy can be felt in Europe where the statistics office of the European Union has just announced that the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 per cent to 7.9 per cent in August. The EU is the market for ...

Daily Economic Update

... budget deficit to rise to 3.7 per cent of GDP this year exceeding the budget mandate of 3.0 per cent set by the European Union Commission.

ASIC chairman talks about governance and er, bullfrogs

... Information Management Research Centre (MARC), on the common characteristics of major business failures in the European Union over the last 25 years. MARC classified business failures into four categories and related it to the life-cycle of a frog where ...

Quintessential Wealth explores Eastern Europe

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2005
... Slovenia. QWL director Ross Hopkins says these nations' stock markets were boosted by admission last year to the European Union and are undergoing a wave of privatisations. GDP for the region growing three times faster than Europe - a trend which the ...

IFRS eliminates need for GAAP reconciliation

... Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to prepare its accounts. The move comes after discussions between the SEC, and the European Union Commission regarding financial reporting. Previously all financial reports lodged with the SEC and prepared using accounting ...

WTO Plea

... export subsidies and trade-distorting domestic support." They paired that demand -- politically painful for the European Union and the US -with a plea for "substantial liberalisation of major agricultural markets worldwide" that would require leading ...