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Costello pledges $18bn to pump-prime his Future Fund

The Future Fund legislation will be pushed through Parliament today, with Treasurer Peter Costello announcing an initial allocation of $18 billion towards the fund charged with managing the federal government's unfunded super liabilities. Costello's ...

Telstra returns $1.5 bln a yr to shareholders over next

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2004
Telstra Corp today pledged to return $1.5 billion to shareholders annually for the next three years, in a move chief financial officer John Stanhope said should dent its credit rating but boost its shares. Australia's biggest telco also lifted its dividend ...

Aust Liberal leadership speculation threatens Budget sell

... public money," he said. However, the Budget itself could be overshadowed by new questions about Mr Costello's future. In a pledge which has echoes of Prime Minister John Howard's when-I'm-64 comments, Mr Costello revealed he would consider his future ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

... since last June. The funds rate is the Fed's primary tool for influencing the economy. But Fed policy-makers dropped a pledge that they had made at their previous meetings this year in January and March to be patient in ordering any possible rate increases. ...

Fed leaves US rates unchanged, pledges patience

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
The US Federal Reserve opted today to keep interest rates at 1958 lows and signalled it was in no hurry to raise borrowing costs with job creation so sluggish and inflation tame. The unanimous decision by the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee ...

Market Wrap

... is not an immediate concern since it has not been disorderly. In addition, Greenspan repeated the central bank's recent pledge to be "patient" in keeping interest rates at a 45-year low to ensure that the US economic rebound takes hold. Higher rates ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2004
... mixed with blue chip stocks little changed, while the tech stocks fell after yesterday the US Federal Reserve abandoned its pledge to keep interest rates low "for a considerable period." In overnight trading on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

WTO chairperson closes Cancun conference with no consensus achieved

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) chairperson Luis Ernesto Derbez, who is also Mexico's foreign minister, has announced that the Cancun Ministerial Conference ended on September 14 without consensus. Mr Derbez said that the heads of delegations meeting ...