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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... 2,038.61 while Hong Kong tumbled 1.55 per cent, or 365.31 points, to 23,176.07. Jakarta was closed for the presidential election. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 43.332 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 5122.743.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... 2,038.61 while Hong Kong tumbled 1.55 per cent, or 365.31 points, to 23,176.07. Jakarta was closed for the presidential election. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 43.332 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 5122.743.

IOOF set to complete SFGA acquisition in August

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... document, the SFGA shareholders' scheme meeting is scheduled for August 1, 2014; the last date for shareholders to lodge election forms regarding the scheme consideration would be August 14 and the implementation date August 20. SFGA directors have maintained ...

NSW govt promises $60 billion infrastructure spend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... more than $60 billion on infrastructure over the next four years. The majority of this would take place after the next election, and would rely on continued income from the 'asset recycling program', including from the partial lease of NSW's electricity ...

Wanted: $20bn electricity investor for NSW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... regional distribution traffic. NSW premier, Mike Baird, said the proposal will now form a major plank of the government's re-election platform that will be presented at next year's NSW state election. Announcement of the internal party agreement coincides ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
"Never underestimate the power of optimism". I've never forgotten this slogan since children cancer charity "Camp Quality" advertised it on Victorian (Australia) television some years back. A click on its website shows that this slogan has now been ...

Power sell off approved by NSW govt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... multi-billion dollar partial sale of its electricity network assets and will take the controversial policy to the next election. Coalition MPs agreed to privatise 49 per cent of the poles and wires assets on 99-year leases, with proceeds of up to $20 ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... bulldozers bulldozing? James Fernyhough takes a look at the remaining roadblocks. When in August last year, just before the election, Tony Abbott declared his intentions to be "an infrastructure prime minister who puts bulldozers on the ground and cranes ...

Bring on compulsory annuities, says Deloitte partner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... scrapping compulsion was a populist move, saying: "It sounds like a politician looking to be re-elected." The next UK general election is less than a year away.

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has pushed above the 5,500 mark at the open on the back of a positive lead from markets in the United States last week. "We've just had a positive lead from Friday's trade. The US just kept ticking along nicely," IG market ...