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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... Keating governments. Senator Carr noted that automotives, pharmaceuticals, information technology and greenhouse technologies were technologies that Australia would have a comparative advantage in. The unemployment rate in the US has increased slightly ...

Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... differently branded products supported by separate computing silos adds further complexity. There are some crossover technologies however. Both Suncorp and Promina use HiPortfolio for funds accounting, although Suncorp uses an older version than Promina. ...

Slow tech roll-outs putting off tech-savvy Gen Y

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
A workplace planning and culture specialist has found that the slow implementation of new communications technologies by financial services providers is impeding staff performance and damaging employee attraction and retention, particularly for tech-savvy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... macro-economic management, the efficiency and competitiveness of financial markets and the capacity to absorb and leverage new technologies. Australia is generally ranked in the top handful in terms of technology uptake. Importantly, Australia is being ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... at its highest level since May 17 as investors bought the shares of industrial companies such as 3M Co and United Technologies Corp, anticipating that cheaper energy costs may lead to higher earnings. But trading was light on the New York Stock Exchange ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... also buoying the S&P 500. Shares of big energy-hungry industrial companies such as diversified manufacturers United Technologies Corp and General Electric Co were among the Dow's biggest gainers. GE was No. 1 among the S&P 500's advancers. The Dow Jones ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... Micro Devices Inc, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, also said it would acquire graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. The earnings news lifted pharmaceutical shares, and a rise in crude oil prices drove up shares of major energy companies. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
... prices helped spark a late afternoon rebound as investors focussed on strong earnings from companies such as United Technologies Corp and Coca-Cola Co. US crude oil futures prices dropped more than two per cent amid signs that the conflict between Israel ...

BNPPSS zooms in on Asian opportunities

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
... transactions also grew by 29 per cent for 2005. Pasquet adds that high on his agenda is to continue to implement European technologies through the Asia-Pac region, such as their performance measurement platform, which he says enables clients a more efficient ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

... years ago by David Millhouse, the founding general manager of UniQuest, one of the country's key exporters of new technologies spun out of the University of Queensland. David Millhouse said that the new retail fund, the MillhouseIAG Private Equity fund ...