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Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
National governments, one on top of the other or in unison, have been throwing money and/or guarantees and/or lower interest rates at banks, financial institutions and the money markets to in order to restore confidence in the financial system. While ...

No sale for Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Suncorp chairman John Story has confirmed that discussions around the sale of the firm's banking and wealth management arms have ended for now. According to a statement released on the ASX, Story said that the market events in the past week in particular ...

Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
True to script, Wall Street calmed down from the euphoric rally that greeted investors at the start of the trading week. Just as the spectacular one-day rallies of the 1930s (see yesterday's report, "Depression no more?") were followed by more sober ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... should instigate a time-sensitive approach to more rapid development of infrastructure, establish a single national government entity to facilitate financing, approval and development of infrastructure projects, and that a master plan should be developed. ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... $20 billion that could have been spent on education, health and vital new infrastructure. A vast sum even by national government standards." That the value of such core infrastructure assets could plummet like this despite concerns we are approaching ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... tensions arising from this modern-versus-traditional growth disparity is likely to become a major focus for the national government who may fear the electoral consequences of any misjudgments.

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... Rajnikant Patel, managing director and chairman of the BSE. Patel said the BSE has been so innovative because the national government's decision to introduce a satellite-based telecommunications infrastructure gave them a headstart to go electronic quickly ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
In a parting note the Reserve Bank of Australia governor, Ian Macfarlane, agreed with financial market forecasts that it was likely that there would be another interest rate hike in either November or December with the economy running at full capacity ...
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