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House prices volatile but chance of big fall lesson

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... rate has slowed considerably during 2008 with the first four months recording a fall in property values of 0.16 percent. Canberra has provided a solid return over the last year with an increase in property values of 13.5 percent over the year. Brisbane ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... for the March quarter. Treasurer Wayne Swan delivers the traditional post-Budget address at the National Press Club in Canberra. In equities, building products and sugar producer CSR is to deliver full year results this morning, and Singapore Telecommunications ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... is still only slightly above 4 per cent as well while retail spending is yet to slow down in any meaningful way. The Canberra Times reported the story on Saturday, saying that almost all the Surplus is expected to be channelled into the new fund. Speculation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... extension arrangments with both Australian and US lenders, with its current debt facilities expiring by midnight tonight. In Canberra, the Australian Business Economists briefing on "Why climate policy is more like monetary policy than trade policy" ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... has called on the Government to 'instruct' super funds to use a proportion of their funds to buy RMBS, according to a Canberra Times article. The same paper reported that Members Equity has called on its shareholders - the major industry super funds ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... fiscal imperatives we are confronting. Premier Iemma's comments come in the lead up to this weekend's 2020 summit in Canberra. But the Premier is more concerned with how the doubling of the number of people aged over 65 will push the NSW government budget ...

ANU down $100 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... 8 per cent, but he added that they didn't need the money right now and would for the inevitable rebound, reported the Canberra Times. "I guess we're $50 million-plus off our book value at the moment, but I think it's probably somewhere close to $100million," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens delivers the Sir Leslie Melville lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra on the subject of the RBA as lender of last resort. Also this morning, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases lending ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... Listing the sky in NSW, no wonder Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has escaped for 17 days. And no doubt his plane flew west from Canberra so he would minimise any NSW sky rental charge. To beat all these, April 1st on Tuesday is going to be good.

Cromwell recruits ex-rugby manager

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... School of Management. The appointment follows the departure of Paul Cronan AM who resigned from Cromwell to return to Canberra for family reasons.