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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... euros ($A1.06 billion) to the International Monetary Fund in time for Tuesday's deadline. However, at a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Greece and other eurozone officials remained far apart on whether the Greek government's reform plans ...

Local Government Super names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... National Australia Bank and MLC. She has previously been chief of staff and advisor to federal and state government ministers including the Minister for Local Government, as well as serving as a councillor at Woollahra Council since 2012. Morris has ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... after US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen dampened speculation of a rate hike before summer, and as eurozone finance ministers backed Greek reforms critical to avoiding a disastrous default. Sydney rose 0.30 per cent, or 17.92 points, to 5,944.90 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... main stock markets rose with London's benchmark index soaring to its highest level on record after eurozone finance ministers backed an extension of Greece's bailout. In Athens, the ATHEX index of leading companies also surged on Tuesday, closing up ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... more of Tsipras, Tsipras would have to give in more, the Greeks would "unfriend" him. "Plus ASa change"... change prime ministers.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... to 4,751.95 points. The Greek market, however, crashed 3.83 per cent, closing at 859.70 points after eurozone finance ministers began a key meeting over Athens' controversial proposals to overhaul its bailout from international creditors. The euro weakened ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... Fortescue Metals had firmed three cents to $2.82. Energy stocks were again getting battered ahead of a meeting of OPEC ministers to discussed the oil price crash. Woodside had eased 73 cents to $38.83 as it said it would push ahead with its $1.2 billion ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
How many Prime Ministers does it take to fix the Japanese economy? Sixteen... and is still counting. That's the number of times Japan has changed its leader since 1990 when the economy did a Humpty Dumpty. Twenty four years on and all 16 kings - and ...

Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... be required to have additional protections in case they fail, Treasurer Joe Hockey said at the G20 meeting of Finance ministers in Cairns this weekend. Hockey said that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is expected to release a proposal for additional ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...