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Australian export winners are also leading job creatorsTuesday, 07 December 2010
Why always talk about exports, exports and exports? Because they mean jobs, job, jobs. Australia has one of the strongest economies in the OECD, in terms of job creation – and our commitment to trade liberalisation has been a key factor in this success. ...
Australian housing – is it a bubble?
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Australian housing is not in a bubble but it is very overvalued, and combined with high debt levels leaves Australian households vulnerable should anything significantly threaten house prices. It is a reason for the RBA to tread carefully in raising interest ...
Telstra confirms full-year guidance, New $100 million solar fund launched: Economy Roundup
Friday, 19 November 2010
Telco giant Telstra has reaffirmed its full-year guidance, but says despite a lift in consumer numbers its earnings growth will fall in the first half of the year. ...
Commodity prices fall in October, Shares lower: Economy roundup
Tuesday, 02 November 2010
The Reserve Bank of Australia index of commodity prices fell in October due to coal and iron ore prices backing off. ...
Commonwealth Bank warns on higher funding costs, Concerns over ASX merger: Economy roundup
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The Commonwealth Bank has warned that higher funding costs will hurt Australian banks in the short term and the sector is facing significant challenges. ...
Aussie dollar parity – is it sustainable? Oliver
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
For the first time in 28 years the $A has spiked above parity against the $US, highlighting the culmination of a long hard slog back to form for the Australian economy. ...
ICT exports tumble, but R&D up 13%
Friday, 24 September 2010
Exports in the technology industry fell by $551 million to $4.5 billion during 2009, but overall research and development spending by Australian companies increased, new figures from the ABS and Australian Computer Society reveal. ...
Recession over?
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Wall Street hit a four-month high overnight on the back of news that the group of economists that decides when recessions officially start and end – a group known as the Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee – officially ended in June ...
Warren Buffet says US won’t drop into double-dip recession
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Investment guru and billionaire Warren Buffett has injected a shot of much-needed optimism into the American economy, telling a summit he is a "huge bull" regarding the country's current economic climate and does not expect a double-dip recession. ...
ELECTION 2010: Coalition unveils broadband policy, sets aside $6.3 billion for network construction and existing network upgrades
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
The Coalition has promised to spend over $6 billion to build an open-access broadband network, upgrade current infrastructure and create wireless networks in a plan it says will deliver high speeds to 97% of households at a fraction of the cost of the Government's ...
Another letdown
Thursday, 05 August 2010
Is it that hard? For more than a year SmartCompany has been raising the alarm about the high cost of bank funding – and the lack of funding – available to small and medium business owners. ...
Fears of a new US slowdown are spooking investors: Maley
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Last night, the bulls seemed to lose some of their mojo. After some serious pushing over the last week or so, they'd managed to push the major global share indices to the point where they'd regained about half the losses they sustained from their April peaks. ...
Parties must act on access to finance
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
We are now well into week two of the official election campaign and we are yet to see anything really substantive from either party on small business. ...
The act of giving: Petre
Friday, 16 July 2010
Earlier this month, Fortune magazine carried a cover story based on a bold challenge from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to America's most wealthy: commit to giving over at least 50% of your wealth to philanthropy either before or when you die. ...
Cough up credit
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
So what is going to make this government listen? Ask any entrepreneur you meet and they will tell you of the hurdles they are going through to get money from the banks. Now a new survey out this morning from D&B provides a stark warning. About 20% of Australian ...
The American way
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Wall Street was closed last night for the Memorial Day holiday, but an interview on last night's 7:30 Report with Harvard Business School professor and noted historian Niall Fergusson has had me thinking a lot about the future of the US a lot in the last 24 ...
Australia’s amazing economic growth story continues: Kohler
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
The Reserve Bank will keep interest rates steady today and then tomorrow the Bureau of Statistics will confirm a remarkable achievement: Australia's GDP growth will be roughly the same as the OECD average, but with interest rates about 3% higher. ...
OECD predicts Australian interest rates will soar, but economists aren’t buying it
Thursday, 27 May 2010
The organisation of economic coordination and development has forecast Australian interest rates will reach 5.7% within a year, pushing up variable mortgage rates and increasing pressure on financially-stressed home owners. ...
Small business minister Craig Emerson says competition will improve SME access to finance
Friday, 21 May 2010
Federal Small Business Minister Craig Emerson says the Government will focus on encouraging competition in the banking sector to improve access to small business finance, but has ruled out introducing a specific Government guarantee for SME loans over fears ...
HENRY TAX REVIEW: Not quite revolution, but Henry has provided a long-term reform blueprint: Keane
Sunday, 02 May 2010
Expectations about the Henry Review centred on a document that would be anything but the "root and branch" analysis originally sought by the Government: rather, it would offer an array of small – though significant – reforms that would improve an already strong ...
