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Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Uh-oh. Here's looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... cent to 3,501.98 points. Madrid's Ibex 35 index lost 0.69 per cent but was off early lows posted after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's right-leaning Popular Party surprisingly failed to win elections in the southern region of Andalusia. In Milan ...

Govt launch MRRT super site

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... retirement savings. In a joint statement with the Bill Shorten, Minister for Financial Services & Superannuation, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan said that under the proposed Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) a 30 year old on average full-time ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... approved, part of a growing probe of Rupert Murdoch's company that stems from a scandal in the UK. REYKJAVIK - A former prime minister of Iceland has rejected charges he failed to adequately protect his country's economy from financial shocks, as he ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... in Washington, would you? What he said was: "I cannot continue to serve as foreign minister if I do not have the Prime Minister's support and so I have decided to do the honourable thing and the honourable thing is to resign." Whether or not he has the ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... bailout supposed to make us whole again - short of ushering in world peace and fortunes forevermore? Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said so himself. The "comprehensive blueprint" would "secure Greece's future in the eurozone" and safeguard ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... promises are repeated and repeated and repeated and implementation measures are sometimes too weak," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. To be sure, they have every reason to be wary for Greece has consistently failed to deliver on its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... round the global economy. The leaders of the parties backing Greece's coalition government, which is headed by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, were to hold a second day of emergency talks over austerity measures that rescue creditors are demanding in ...

Fidelity backs move to empower shareholders

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Asset management giant Fidelity Worldwide Investment has come out in favour of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for more transparency on executive pay, bonuses and severance packages. Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Cameron said there ...

HK tops US as most advanced financial economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... far and away the most financially advanced European nation, indirectly making a mockery of reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to vetoe to changes to the European Union financial treaty will somehow lead to the UK being isolated. ...