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Lack of funds puts canoeist up creek without a paddle

WERE you asked to think of a quintessentially Australian sport, chances are the slalom canoe would not come to mind. By contrast, Sydney's Robin Bell, who was world champion and overall winner of the World Cup in 2005, can...

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Generous gift from banks

It's not often that New Zealand's mostly Australian-owned banks give a $140 million gift to their customers. Yet that's what they have done over the past four months, thanks in part to the former chief executive of one of those...

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ahm Wins 2009 Australian Privacy Award

The Illawarra's national health insurance provider Australian Health Management (ahm) has been named the 2009 winner of the Large Business Category at the Australian Privacy Awards. (PRWeb Nov 21, 2009)

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L&G set to appoint John Stewart as chairman

Legal & General, the UK’s third largest insurer, is on the verge of appointing John Stewart, the former head of National Australia Bank, as its new chairman. Mr Stewart is a former deputy chief executive of Barclays bank and...

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Stocks end the week lower

STOCKS ended the week lower after falls across the board following losses on Wall Street and commodity markets. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 4:13pm AEDT, the December share price index contract was 63 points lower at 4,695...

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Delegates See Market Improvement at MIPIM Asia 2009

Delegates attending the fourth edition of MIPIM Asia, the world's property market in Asia-Pacific, said they were more optimistic about the state of the property market compared to the same time last year, according to an...

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Asian Markets Exhibit Weakness On Wall Street Lead, Economic Concerns

Asian stock markets are mostly trading in the red with notable losses on Friday with the overnight negative close on Wall Street on the back of some disappointing job reports hurting sentiment to a significant extent. With...

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ANZ to revamp IT operations

By Julian Bajkowski | Friday, November 20 2009 New CIO will report directly to the CEO. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has foreshadowed a sweeping restructure of its A$768 million a year technology operations and...

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Banks cleared to lift interest rates

PETER MARTIN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT November 20, 2009 THE Reserve Bank has given banks a green light to increase mortgage rates, saying that their margins ''have actually declined a little over the past two years''. The...

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Reserve clears banks to lift interest rates

PETER MARTIN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT November 20, 2009 THE Reserve Bank has given banks a green light to increase mortgage rates, saying that their margins ''have actually declined a little over the past two years''. The...

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