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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... what we're seeing in the market." The deal follows a two-week US government shutdown and came a day before a Treasury Department deadline to raise the nation's $US16.7 trillion debt limit. Australia's big banks were all firmer with ANZ gaining 15 cents ...

Hockey Review to push for industry deregulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... inquiry will "reduce the regulatory burden on business by $1 billion a year." Hockey revealed that each government department will have Deregulation Units in order to identify pieces of regulation that can be removed. "In Treasury alone we have already ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... bargaining over whether the Feb. 15 date for the debt limit extension would be a firm deadline or whether the Treasury Department would be allowed to use "extraordinary measures" to extend borrowing beyond that date, as it has done in the recent past". ...

AVCAL appoints ICAA exec as CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... roles with PwC, Rio Tinto and Australand Property Group. He also has experience as a policy adviser with the Federal Department of the Treasury in Canberra. "Yasser's front-line experience in working constructively with the government on business policy ...

Sinodinos aims at "fixing the messes" inherited from Labor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Commenting on his appointment as Assistant Treasurer, he said that "having previously worked in the Treasury and the Finance Department for many years - starting out as a graduate - returning there is like coming home." The Senator will be formally addressing ...

Baker & McKenzie tells industry to prepare for SIV 'bonanza'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... residency in Australia. So far, only a relatively small number of SIVs have been rubber-stamped but figures from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection reveal there are many more in the pipeline. As at 30 June, there were 305 primary applications ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... Christine Lagarde warned that a US failure to raise the ceiling could wreak havoc on the global economy, while the Treasury Department said a default could have a "catastrophic" effect on the economy. The comments likely raised the anxiety of some investors ...

Shutdown with an i

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... 3,787.43. The gains snapped a five-day losing streak on the Dow and S&P 500. The buying came on the heels of the Labor Department's report that new claims for unemployment benefits sank by 5,000 to 305,000 last week. Analysts had predicted jobless claims ...

Accountant gets 6 years jail for promoting tax avoidance scheme

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the Australian Government Solicitor and the Attorney-General's Department.