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India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
Consumption expenditure in India accounts for 62 per cent of GDP placing it in the same league as developed nations like the US and Australia, highlighting that high-value consumer sectors such as financial services could be big investment opportunities ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... impact of the credit crunch has continued to lift rates alongside recent rate increases, together with strong domestic expenditure price pressure and rising petrol prices." To ease the stress, North suggested a five-point plan which includes addressing ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... Government purse strings are also loosening in favour of public sector infrastructure. Lehman's overall outlook for capital expenditure is that it will have an "unwelcome impact" boosting an already hot economy. While inflation is giving the RBA a temporary ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases international trade in goods and services data for April and private new capital expenditure data for the March quarter. On the market, wheat farmer Graincorp releases it first-half results and pay TV provider ...

Fin Synergy ramps up R&D

... research and development (R&D). "We have increased spending on R&D by 300% and we intend to maintain that level of expenditure over the coming few years," he said. The group's key focus would be on how to help administrators and fund managers outsource ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... trouble last week as it was revealed funds destined for retirement funding had been diverted to cover more immediate expenditure, in a theme echoing some of the recent debate around Australia's Future Fund being used to fund government infrastructure ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... from the depressed state of the housing industry, poor national trade figures and sluggish business capital equipment expenditure. While the participation rate stayed at 66.2 per cent, the unemployment rate fell from 4.5 per cent to 4.4 per cent. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... Productivity Commission has released the final report on Public Support for Science and Innovation saying that the $6 billion expenditure during 2004-05 had important economic, social and environmental benefits to the Australian community. Commissioner ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... likely to benefit the alternative energy sector. These expenditures follow from the pre-election promises that average expenditure at about $13 billion per year until 2016. The Federal government will come under pressure to direct monies going into the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... by 1.7 per cent resulting in a 1.4 per cent increase in Real gross domestic income. The drivers of this increase in expenditure on GDP were household final consumption expenditure (0.7 per cent) and private non-farm inventories (0.6 per cent). It was ...