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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... markets were buoyed by positive US economic data and the latest Greek austerity package, which received a positive European Union response. Dealers said news that the massive US services sector grew faster than expected in February and that the US private ...

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... and military super scheme management into one new authority. There will also be a 10-person board made up of three trade union and two defence representatives. The remaining five representatives will be chosen by the finance minister. "The veteran community ...

Goldman Sachs backs Greek swap deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... publicly criticised for the transactions because they may have inappropriately aided the country's entry into the European Union (EU), according to news sources. Among the criteria to join the EU includes a debt-to-GDP ratio of less than 60 per cent. ...

Stafford launches Verity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Financial services specialist strategic brand marketer Bruce Stafford has launched his own consultancy following his departure from QIC and several years helping to drive HESTA's expansion. His new consultancy, Verity Financial Marketing, will focus ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... The PIGS are struggling under the weight of too much ingested debt, threatening indigestion in the whole of the European Union. They're doom. Despite growing more than expected in the fourth quarter, Japan remains mired in deflationary conditions. The ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Australia's biggest industry super fund for health and community services has appointed three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... lead from Wall Street, with US markets closed overnight for the President's Day public holiday. Ms Saly said the European Union had provided some clarity about its plan for Greece's financial woes, which had helped to boost sentiment, Ms Saly said. "A ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... many are falling out of love with the euro. The euro marked its tenth birthday as the official currency of the European Union last year. The currency started its life on 1 January 1999 valued at US$1.1827 but steadily declined over the next 21 months ...

FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... EISS' chief executive Richard Powis is also the chief executive of FuturePlus although two sponsoring unions United Services Union (USU) and the Department and Environmental Professionals' Union (DEPA) have both started a petition for him to resign because ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper revealed that 67 per cent of Germans did not want their government and other European Union countries to spend a single euro cent - let alone billions of euros to salvage Greece. Around 53 per cent of polled Germans ...