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Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... 30,000 members worldwide in 70 countries. "We translate our annual general meeting into more languages than the United Nations does," said Harriman. Harriman is also here to tell the Australian market about the changing face of MDRT and what it could ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... added that there needs to be a widening of the membership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to include the Asian nations whose economies have grown over the last couple of decades. The IMF was set up about 60 years ago after World War II to help ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... stronger institutional framework around it. Costello, who will chair the meeting, said that some of the oil producing nations should allow more foreign investment with improved technology that will allow lacking commercial operations to be turned around. ...

Asset Super Board looks to Steer straight ahead

National director of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Australia, Naomi Steer, has been appointed to the Board of Asset Super to take the place of former speaker of the NSW Upper House John Johnson. Steer's experience has mainly ...

Quintessential Wealth explores Eastern Europe

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2005
... Latvia and Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. QWL director Ross Hopkins says these nations' stock markets were boosted by admission last year to the European Union and are undergoing a wave of privatisations. GDP for ...

Economy withstands impact of tsunami

... Investors chief economist and head of investment strategy Dr Shane Oliver, as the cornerstone industries of the various nations' economies and their main economic centres have been untouched by the natural disaster. Coastal areas of the South Asia region ...

Emerging countries fuel oil demand as world runs out of oil

... Management chief investment strategist Jonathan Pain attributes the rise in oil prices to the increase in demand from growing nations including China and India and a serious inability for oil producing countries to sustain production. Mr Pain said that ...

Australian economy slips in world competitiveness rankings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2004
... 2004-2005, released today, ranked Australia 14th out of 104 countries, placing it well ahead of many European industrialised nations and emerging Asian economies, including China. Finland placed first in the world, followed by the United States and then ...

Global investment flows seen recovering after three-year slide

... into countries continued to decline last year, falling by 18% to US$560 billion dollars from the 2002 figure, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in an annual report. But the outflow of FDI mainly from wealthy countries ...