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World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... demanded that reference to its exchange rate in the draft communiquA(C) "be removed from the final version". Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper couldn't have put it any clearer, "Here is the tightrope we must walk. To sustain the recovery, it is ...

Raising SG must remain despite RSPT outcome: Brogden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... make on the RSPT must not affect their ability to deliver superannuation increases to Australians." He said new prime minister Julia Gillard must work quickly with the mining industry to achieve a resolution on the RSPT - highlighting the need to drop ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... the speculation starts. Well...it already did yesterday -- the very first minute that news of Krudd's demise as Prime Minister and JG's ascent to the throne. "Experts" of all shapes and persuasion, men and women on the streets and even schoolgirls are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The Australian share market has received strongly negative leads from key indices overnight, although commodities markets were stronger, with precious metals, copper and oil all rising. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The Australian sharemarket has firmed on news that Julia Gillard will be Australia's new prime minister. At 1207 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.9 points, or 0.62 per cent, at 4514, as Julia Gillard made her first statement after being ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The elevation of Julia Gillard to become Australia's first female Prime Minister, which increases the odds the government will be re-elected and possibly win back a few senate seats, makes it more likely that the government's financial services reform ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... uncertainty of our own. Kevin Rudd is no longer PM. Ms. Julia Gillard becomes Australia's new PM and its first femme Prime Minister. What happens to Labour's policy now -- particularly in relation to the "Super Tax" on mining, climate change, asylum ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... now embarking on a course towards fiscal responsibility. No free lunch! Remember? Just yesterday, the UK's new Prime Minister David Cameron warned Britons to steel themselves for the deepest budget cuts to be announced two weeks from now. No, it's none ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... market closed lower on Friday, as investors locked in profits after seeing a moderate rise on the election of a new prime minister. The Nikkei 225 ended down 13.00 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 9,901.19 points. The Nikkei saw a moderate rise early in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... persisted towards the euro zone's debt crisis and uncertainty over Japan's political situation a day after the prime minister said he was resigning. The benchmark Nikkei gained 3.2 per cent or 310.95 points to 9,914.19 for its biggest one-day percentage ...