Beijing Puts Foot Down over Huawei
Byline: John Kerin Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- China's ambassador to Australia, Chen Yuming, has described Huawei's exclusion from the development of the...
View ArticleANZ Boss's $19M Payday
Byline: George Liondis Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- ANZ Bank CEO Mike Smith will receive an estimated $A19m for 2012. Smith's total remuneration package was...
View Article$A Climbs on Cliff Hopes
Byline: Jason Murphy Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian dollar peaked at $US1.055 on 19 December 2012, amid to indications that the US will avert a...
View ArticleWilson Buy Builds Advisory Ranks
Byline: Michael Bennet Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed stockbrokers Wilson HTM and Investorfirst have negotiated a deal that will benefit both parties. Wilson will...
View ArticleOptimistic Incitec Expects a Happy New Year
Byline: Matt Chambers Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Incitec Pivot chairman Paul Brasher is "cautiously optimistic" about the explosives and fertiliser maker's 2013 prospects, after...
View ArticleDulux Reviews Alesco Assets on Takeover
Byline: Tim Boreham Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Paintmaker DuluxGroup has finally gained more than 90% of Alesco's shares, and it has begun a wide review of Alesco's businesses....
View ArticleAussie John Joins the Big Four
Byline: Michael Smith Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Aussie Home Loans executive chairman John Symond has agreed to allow the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)...
View ArticleBarriers to Uni Entry Falling
Byline: Joanna Mather Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Government's higher education policies have made it easier for students to gain a place at...
View ArticleSingle Desk for Rice to Remain until 2017
Byline: Andrew White Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The New South Wales Government has extended the rice marketing monopoly for five years. On 19 December 2012, the Minister for...
View ArticleDuo Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
Byline: Andrew Main Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Two men pleaded guilty to insider trading in a Sydney court on 18 December 2012. John Kay Jin Khoo, who was a junior investment...
View ArticleLees Ready to Strike
Byline: Nick Lenaghan and Ainslie Chandler Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- An equity raising may give control of Perth residential developer Port Bouvard to...
View ArticleBoard Set to Consider Another Rate Cut in February
Byline: Joanna Heath Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Reserve Bank of Australia will consider economic data in making its decision on interest rates in February...
View ArticleBribery Facts Slow to Emerge
Byline: Geoff Winestock Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Reserve Bank of Australia was not initially aware of the full facts of bribery by its Note Printing...
View ArticlePrepare Now for Results of Cheap Money
Byline: Alan Mitchell Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens notes that the monetary policies of developed nations...
View ArticleLow Yields Lift Bond Sales to Record
Byline: Nichola Saminather Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian property groups have taken advantage of low bond yields to refinance debt. Real estate...
View ArticleBrowse LNG Tick Angers Green Groups
Byline: Angela Macdonald-Smith Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Western Australian (WA) Environmental Protection Authority has given the green light to a planned...
View ArticleSymond's Sale to CBA 'Good for the Consumer'
Byline: Matthew Drummond Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Mortgage broker Aussie Home Loans will be acquired fully by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), which at...
View ArticleSA Scraps Retail Energy Price Controls
Byline: Geoff Winestock Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- AGL Energy will no longer need to pursue Supreme Court action over power retail prices in South Australia...
View ArticleRudd's Style Sets Tongues Wagging
Byline: Phillip Coorey Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Speculation is mounting that Australian MP Kevin Rudd will challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for...
View ArticleBillabong Tipped to Reject Takeover
Byline: Blair Speedy Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- It is likely that Billabong International will reject a $A527 million takeover offer. The retailer's shares went into a trading...
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