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Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... like home and contents cover. NIBA's announcement came following estimates by insurers that as many as one-third of the houses destroyed in the Victorian bushfires were not insured. "Insurance must be affordable to be effective, yet state government ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... stepping up on whether the government should instead decree a set of data and system standards for all payroll and clearing houses wishing to support the national clearing house. This debate about preferred methodology is also why the emergence of new ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... last night's news out of North America, Europe and Asia. They are more of the same. Gloom and Doom - more job losses, more houses repossessed, more businesses shuttered, more banking sector problems, more profit warnings, leading indicators pointing ...

Sherry's to-do list for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... to regulating credit rating agencies. "Details of the future regulation of credit ratings agencies and product research houses will also be finalised and implemented during 2009," he said. "This is high priority in the wake of the global financial crisis." ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... threatened as it is being threatened right now. China celebrates a new year on 26 January. Traditionally, Chinese clean their houses, purchase new clothes, get their hair cut, gather the family for a special feast and hand out red envelopes containing ...

The day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... name is being etched in world history, more workers will be handed pink slips, more businesses will be closing shop, more houses will be foreclosed, more wealth will be destroyed, more economies will be trapped into the recession net. Yes we can! A fresh ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Flight to safety? Really? Fears about the economic outlook and a helping hand from the US Federal Reserve has pushed up the US bond market over the past few months. Fresh signs that the American economic recession is deepening - and so is the world's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... affect the stockmarket," Mr Bishop said. "They don't like the look of those housing figures, because if they're not starting houses confidence is lacking. "So we've got a situation where they've almost cancelled each other out. The market's just sitting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... expectations that an aggressive Chinese interest rate cut may fight a slowing economy there, boosting shippers and trading houses. The benchmark Nikkei gained 138.88 points, or 1.66 per cent, to 8,512.27. HONG KONG - The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... spending appears to be working. The Housing Industry Association's (HIA) New Home Sales report shows that sales of new houses rose by 6.7 per cent in October. Thank you too that, because of this, the Federal Budget might not need to go into deficit. ...