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World rolls out stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... Over in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his government's £330 billion package to support businesses. British Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government will do "whatever it takes" to offset the economic impact caused by the virus ...

Nowra man lies to ASIC, jailed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... Northwest Resources shares were frozen by ASIC when the regulator alleged 15 million shares were held in a tax haven in the British Virgin Islands. In 2017, Merity was committed to stand trial after further investigation by ASIC uncovered the identities ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... Stuttgart, with the final product emerging in Michigan." The fall-out is underscored by a report by The Guardian : "JCB, the British digger maker, has cut working hours and suspended overtime for 4,000 UK employees after the coronavirus outbreak prompted ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... coronavirus. To be sure, there was nothing noteworthy in Carney's final monetary policy committee meeting at the helm of the British central bank. The BOE kept monetary policy unchanged, as widely expected, right on the eve of Brexit. Andrew Bailey ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... in the EU's customs union and single market - but will be outside the political institutions and there will be no British members of the European Parliament" and by this time next year, the UK would be completely divorced from the European Union ...

Salaries of the rich and famous

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
Take a moment of silence for Australia's highest paid chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake, whose British counterpart surpassed her annual salary by more than $500 million. Based on today's conversion rates, Bet365 chief executive Denise Coates raked ...

Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... case and the high-profile news story helped precipitate new laws protecting the rights of women and homosexuals in the British military (the US followed suit). Siddique received a standing ovation for her speech where she spoke about her own personal ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... 2008. Perverse as it may seem but the removal of Brexit uncertainty (if and when it comes) could spark a rally in the British currency, forcing the BOE to follow its peers into increased policy accommodation to preserve Sterling's weakness.

Northern Trust chair defends Woodford loan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... O'Grady has defended the company giving an embattled Neil Woodford fund added flexibility on a £150 million loan. The British fundie famously took to YouTube to apologise to investors after his fund had to freeze redemptions over illiquidity in ...

Adviser cops 262 month jail sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... At the same time Thomas failed to pay income taxes for two decades, using offshore entities in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands to conceal his income. He also hired locals in the area to act as his nominee in numerous business ventures. ...