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Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits fresh highs

... The US lost ground against the yen, falling one per cent overnight after Japan re-elected Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister, offshore traders said. The US dollar also fell against the Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar and Canadian dollar with interest ...

Howard says no need for further rate hikes

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2003
Prime Minister John Howard has put the Reserve Bank on notice saying there is no reason to further increase rates. Hours after the bank increased rates by 0.25 percentage points, the first increase in 16 months, Mr Howard said he did not see any reason ...

PM flags tax cuts for high income earners

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2003
Prime Minister John Howard has again flagged tax relief for workers hit by the top tax bracket. He said the top tax rate, hitting people earning $62,500 and above, came in at too low a level but raising that would be dependant on whether money was available ...

Australia looks for free trade deal with US; Thailand deal announced

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2003
... abolished by 2010 and free up access to the Thai economy for Australia automotive, agricultural and wine sales. Prime Minister John Howard says a Free Trade Agreement with Thailand will particularly benefit the Australian car and wine industries. Mr ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...

Higher budget surplus has little economic implications: HSBC economist

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... expectation they would have been strong," he said. "So it's just a mis-forecast which is not uncommon, I myself was in a Prime Minister's office years ago and exactly the same thing happened to us and it was, again, in company tax collection. "It's really ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries dip lower

... 1.75 per cent or 187.80 to 10734.13. The All Ordinaries lost 1.9 points to 3195.20. This despite statements by Prime Minister John Howard that the Australian economy is going through a phase which he calls "the golden age". He cited low inflation, high ...

Costello announces new appointment to Productivity Commission

... sectors. Dr Shann's experience includes work at the International Monetary Fund, the Treasury, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Chief Economist of Shell (Australia)."

PM Howard says states should reduce stamp duty

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2003
Prime Minister John Howard today said the states should look at different ways of reducing stamp duty, saying the states had made an "absolute bonanza" out of stamp duty. "My whole argument on this is that, back in 2001... I wrote to every state premier ...

Government clears the way for radical Telstra sale

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2003
Prime Minister John Howard said today that if the Federal Government sold its stake in Telstra it could still have a say in the telecommunication giant's services. "You don't need to own Telstra to tell it what to do," he said. His comments follow speculation ...