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GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... made by a major auto-maker. "For us at GM, the answer is perfectly clear. As a business necessity, and an obligation to society... we need to develop alternative sources of propulsion... based on diverse sources of energy... to meet the world's growing ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most obvious thing is we no longer have to worry ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... no chance of a US recession. However, The Economist noted that days after the 1929 stock market crash, Harvard Economic Society followed this same reassuring theme, as did 95 per cent of American economists in March 2001 at the beginning of that recession. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... Queensland Ltd had fallen 11 cents to $18.12 after it said its proposed $600 million takeover of Perth-based Home Building Society Ltd had received approval from the Federal Treasurer. At 1222 AEDT, the media sector mainly was down. News Corp dropped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... Panaegis Gold Mines all hold AGMs. In Perth RCR Tomlinson Ltd has its AGM while in Rockhampton, Queensland, The Rock Building Society Ltd holds its AGM. Tonight at 0100 AEST (1000 US Eastern Standard Time) News Corporation holds its annual meeting in ...

Sunsuper digs deeper into alternatives

... investments. While at AMP, he was responsible for AMP insurance funds and was a founding director and past president of the CFA Society of Sydney. With a bigger investment team in place, the fund's chief investment officer David Hartley said the fund ...

Credit crunch shows banks still lead the system

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... lines of credit they had with banks. This, of course, transferred the funding pressures to the banks," he told the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre CEO Asia Update luncheon. In itself this is not a problem, but its ramifications are, he said, especially ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... residential mortgage providers go to for their funding. In UK the contagion has become so bad that the Northern Rock building society has just suffered a $A5 billion run on its deposits on fears it was about to collapse after rumours spread it was having ...

King doubles size after buying spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... the group in terms of transactions for businesses with its aggregate FUA growing to more than $1 billion. IMB Building Society and ipac established King Financial Services and remain its majority owners. Following the acquisitions, King Financial has ...

Messaging transactions for 12 cents: SWIFT

... program that promises to slash messaging transaction fees from around $25 per transaction to 12 cents. Early last month, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), the global co-operative for setting messaging standards ...