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Early next year, a million Northern Rock savers and up to 200,000 borrowers will get a letter telling them their accounts will in future be with the "good bank" being split from the nationalised lender. The other 300,000...
CARMEL EGAN November 8, 2009 AUSTRALIA'S elite scientific community has been stunned by the sudden and unexplained dismissal of the director of the nation's only synchrotron facility - a multimillion-dollar, revolutionary...
A COMPLEX and highly secretive $US125 million ($137m) deal by National Australia Bank, codenamed Project Turtle, is one of a series of transactions by local banks at the centre of a crackdown by the Australian Taxation Office.
HONG KONG, Nov 06, 2009 (AFP) - Hong Kong added 1.63 percent, Tokyo 0.74 percent and Sydney 1.91 percent as dealers looked at upbeat data from the US to pick up bargains following a hectic week. Bank shares ended mostly lower,...
Stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region are trading firm on Friday with the overnight rally on Wall Street significantly buoying up sentiment. The sharp upward revision in economic growth forecast by the Australian central...
AUSTRALIAN stocks closed higher, rebounding from two-month lows on Thursday, buoyed by a more optimistic assessment of the economy by the central bank. At 1615 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 86 points, or 1.91 per...
From ANI Melbourne, Nov 6: In the Higgins by-election in Australia, a party backed by porn stars, called the Australian Sex Party, is sure that it will land a place in the Parliament. Fiona Patten, a former sex industry...
AAP The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left its options open for a pause in rate rises in December, following a guarded upgrading of its economic outlook, economists say. The RBA forecast gross domestic product to expand...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks gained in early Friday trades on the heels of a rally on Wall Street, with Sydney's benchamrk S&P/ASX 200 rising 1.5% to 4,573.4. Financials helped fuel the broader advance, with...
Higher Opens Expected For New Zealand, Australia Stocks Thursday November 05, 2009 15:37:00 EST (RTTNews) - Strong opens are expected Friday for the New Zealand and Australia sharemarkets. New Zealand's market moved lower on...
