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Super Focus on Budget release

Industry groups are scrambling ahead of tomorrow night to include widespread changes to the current superannuation regime. The Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of Superfunds in Australia have both released papers ahead of tomorrow ...

Banking chiefs extra vigilant after NAB scandal

No bank can assume there will never be an error but big losses signified a fairly significant breakdown of controls, Westpac Banking Corp head David Morgan said [on Sunday]. Mr Morgan declined to comment directly on the NAB foreign exchange scandal ...

US interest rates likely to rise as inflation builds, poll finds

US economic growth is chugging along but worries about rising inflation pressures have fueled expectations the Federal Reserve will push up interest rates in the next few months. A Reuters poll taken on Thursday, after the first-quarter gross domestic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2004
The Australian share market is likely to find itself treading water again at the open, after another lacklustre lead from Wall Street overnight. US blue-chip stocks made gains, but the key indices did not strengthen significantly and the local market ...

NAB adds A$57 million NZ tax bill to woes

National Australia Bank faces a possible tax bill of up to NZ$212 million (A$184.8 million) from New Zealand tax authorities after receiving a bill for NZ$57 million relating to its Bank of New Zealand unit. The bank said it would contest the new assessments ...

CFSI launches infrastructure fund

Australia's largest fund manager Colonial First State Investment (CFSI) plans to launch an infrastructure fund in the June quarter aimed at the wholesale market, the company said. CFSI hopes its Wholesale Infrastructure Income Fund will have $200 million ...

Business groups fear Labor government: Andrews

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2004
Business groups fear a federal Labor government will derail the economy, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews said today. Andrews attacked Labor and the Australian Democrats after the government overnight failed for the second time to pass laws ...

PM Capital launches long-only Aussie equity retail fund

Colonial First State has announced an exclusive agreement with PM Capital which will bring the first long-only Australian equity fund managed by PM Capital available to the retail market. The Colonial First State PM Capital Australian Share Fund will ...

Free trade deal goes public, but attacked over PBS

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
The 1,000 page free trade deal with the United States was released publicly yesterday and immediately slammed for undermining Australia's cheap medicines system. Officials were unable to explain a key detail in the agreement which will allow decisions ...

House prices expected to grow for at least three years

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Homeowners need not fear a sudden burst of the housing bubble, with prices in Australia's capital cities expected to keep rising for the next three years, an economic forecaster predicted today. Rob Mellor, BIS Shrapnel's director of building services ...