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UniSuper still fighting Westfield change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... by Westfield Group, into a new entity called Scentre. Westfield Group's international business, which includes malls in Britain and the United States, would become Westfield Corporation. UniSuper said it bought into WRT because WRT was a lowly-geared ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... while Pfizer fell 2.6 per cent on some disappointing signals in quarterly results and a hint it might take its push to buy Britain's AstraZeneca to shareholders, turning the bid hostile. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ended mixed, with worries ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... advisory service at least insofar as these income stream option arrangements are concerned. In another indication of that Britain's conservative government has a very different attitude to financial sector reform than does the Australian government ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... at the state-backed institution drew a fierce response from Business Secretary Vince Cable, a key Liberal Democrat in Britain's Conservative-led coalition government. "The public will simply not understand why big bonuses and large salaries continue ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... modestly lower following weak housing figures but European markets rose as traders digested mixed retail sales data out of Britain. At 0754 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down one point at 5,413. No major local economic ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... DAX 30 also trod water ending at 9,660.05 points, while the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.24 per cent to 4,341.10 points. Britain's jobless rate firmed to 7.2 per cent in the quarter to December, official data showed, easing pressure on the Bank of England ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... at the time (August last year), this wasn't expected to be crossed until early 2016 at the latest. But like America's, Britain's jobless rate (7.1% in November) is one downtick away from the threshold. Like the Fed, it still thinks it's too soon to raise ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... CAC 40 in Paris edged up 0.03 per cent to 4,324.98 points. Milan gave up 0.19 per cent and Madrid dropped 0.75 per cent. Britain's unemployment dropped faster than expected to 7.1 per cent, in the three months to the end of November - from 7.4 per cent ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... transactions around the world. Chief among the banks fined were Germany's Deutsche Bank, France's Societe Generale and Britain's state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland. The euro eased to $US1.3555 from $US1.3589 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - ...