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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... cent and Dollar Tree fell 2.4 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets have rebounded sharply as traders breath a sigh of relief over easing tensions in east Ukraine and gains by Western-backed forces in Iraq. Frankfurt's main DAX index added 1.68 per ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... humanitarian mission and raise you my humanitarian mission". Yup, the combatants have all become humanitarians now! What a relief for you and for me and the entire human race 'ey? Obama started the joke. Time magazine reported on 7 August that "Obama ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets, however, rallied around 2.0 per cent as investors breathed a sigh of relief that sanctions were not tougher. The ruble also gained 0.5 per cent to 35.56 to the US dollar, and 0.34 per cent to 47.53 ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... functions as a welfare-orient credit union, providing savings services and funding for education, healthcare, and disaster relief to 170,000 military personnel. The Infrastructure Fund is overseen by The Private Capital Group Pty Ltd (TPCG), and its ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... Commonwealth Ombudsman into the allegations that suggested that ASIC had a conflict of interest when it granted regulatory relief for generic online superannuation calculators in 2005. Read the full Senate Economics Committee report into ASIC here Read ...

Treasury contemplates TASA relief for experienced advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... TPB. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall welcomed the exposure draft and said that the relief for experienced planners will contribute to larger numbers of advisers being ready for TASA. "Essentially, the draft we have ...

Federal Court finds S&P guilty in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... proportion of their losses that will now be available to provide services for their communities. It is welcome news and a relief for the tens of thousands of Australians who make up these local communities as they rely on the range of services provided ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... debt by nearly $300 billion from $667 billion to $389 billion. And that is after we prudently budget for future taxation relief. This significant reduction in debt reduces our interest bill by around $16 billion a year in ten years' time. That's more ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Phew! That was close. No Virginia, we didn't hear this sigh of relief from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... particular service," the submission said, and added that fees would be charged in cases such as assessing applications for relief from the law. The regulator argued that changes in regulatory functions "have not been fully reflected in the manner in ...