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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Australian markets have received mixed leads from overseas trade overnight. Wall Streets key indices were lower, but commodities were mixed. European markets were higher. At 0652 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... Krudd's demise as Prime Minister and JG's ascent to the throne. "Experts" of all shapes and persuasion, men and women on the streets and even schoolgirls are being interviewed to give their opinion. What happens to the Australian government policies? ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Is this the moment of truth? Is this the thing that'll shoo the residual bears -- that still loiter the streets of the financial markets - back into a long period of hibernation? Is this the one that could finally convince one and all that we are indeed ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... revelation. Fool me once... While austerity measures may smell good for financial markets, they're causing chaos in the streets of Athens. Public servants, academics, health workers, customs officials, etc. have all stopped worked or taken to the streets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... SEC announcement, and its refusal to rule out further charges across the financial sector, sent shares in some of Wall Streets biggest firms deep into negative territory. LONDON - European stock markets suffered sharp losses on the US news about Goldman ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... Higher petrol and energy bills also hit business costs. At one point, European farmers, fishermen and bakers took to the streets to demand cheaper oil. The same was true in many Asian countries. Investors hit by the equity bear market shifted their money ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... reality. For example, its proposal to cover 70 per cent of Australian emissions and all six major greenhouse gases (GHG) is streets ahead of the European ETS which only covers 20 per cent of emissions. The Australian ETS also proposes from day one mandating ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... because it would boost our net-export position. If this flows into our capital account then there will be cheering on the streets in Barton ACT where the Commonwealth Treasury has their offices. How lucky can one country get?

Church funds take youth off the streets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... Church Superannuation Funds (NCCSF) has donated $30,000 in surplus funds from its recent conference to the Youth off the Streets charity. Since 2006, any surplus funds from sponsorships or delegate registration fees from the National Conference of Church ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... victory of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former interior minister who set Paris on fire with comments about hosing scum from the streets. France's economy has grown more slowly than any other developed country and its unemployment rate is the highest in Europe ...