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1:00 AM AEDT | WE HAVE just passed the 12-month anniversary of sharemarkets hitting their lows as a consequence of the global financial crisis.
Economic indicators have significantly improved and shares have
1:00 AM AEDT | TODAY
Sydney: Australian Bureau of Statistics lending finance data for January; Cards and Payments Australasia conference (day one of three); annual Performance Attribution Risk Measurement Fo
14 Mar 10 | Just average
Interest rates are on the way up
but how high can they go? The
Reserve Bank lifted the cash
rate from 3.75 per cent to 4 per
cent last week.
14 Mar 10 | Just average
Interest rates are on the way up
but how high can they go? The
Reserve Bank lifted the cash
rate from 3.75 per cent to 4 per
cent last week.
14 Mar 10 | I have two properties; the
first was bought as an
investment and the second
was our principal home.
Due to work commitments,
we moved to a different
town and our principal
home then became a rental
too.
14 Mar 10 | When it came to making one go into three architect Nigel Plumbridge made this seaside renovation suit everyone. BEN WILD and PETER LORD found out how.
A HOME renovation is a stressful process
14 Mar 10 | Report: BEN WILD, pictures: PETER LORD THE WHEELS: 1963 Ford GT Cortina, 1964 Ford GT Cortina, 1965 Ford GT Cortina 500 (and more). THE NUT: Richard Gamble, Acacia Hills. THE NUT: Richard Gambl
14 Mar 10 | Families can make large savings by buying generic products that are identical to expensive brand-name items, federal Consumer Affairs Minister Craig Emerson says.
Dr Emerson said he went on shoppin
14 Mar 10 | I frankly don't know how to pick active managers that are going to outperform (the overall market return) DAVID Robb admits being "almost Jesuitical" in his belief in index investing.
"I
14 Mar 10 | JOHN COLLETT looks at the risk our high mortgage debts pose. IS Australian residential housing heading for a price bubble? Probably, but like most other people I'm not about to sell up with the
14 Mar 10 | Index funds are pooled investments that passively track the performance of a particular market index.
For example, if you invest in an index fund that tracks the ASX 200 index and the market r
14 Mar 10 | Follow the lead of the big institutions and invest in an index fund. BARBARA DRURY reports. INDEX funds were once regarded as the domain of mum and dad investors with neither the know-how nor the
14 Mar 10 | My wife and I are in our 50s. Our home is paid for and we are paying off our unit as we want to be debt- free.
We make extra payments each month so we can have it paid off as soon as possible. Peop
14 Mar 10 | How well are supermarkets adhering to a dolphin-friendly campaign? Not well, a Greenpeace report says. MORE than 20 years after the campaign to get dolphin- friendly tuna into shopping bags,
14 Mar 10 | Packaging claims are still baffling customers, as KELSEY MUNRO reports. The reason Australia is dragging the chain on front-of-label packaging ... is the food industry is not interested
WH
14 Mar 10 | Launceston Tramway Museum
Business plan
•_Year One: 10,000 visitors (average ticket $6), $4523 profit.
•_Year Three: 13,000 visitors (average ticket $8), $7827 profit
14 Mar 10 | A TRAMWAY museum for Launceston has been given the thumbs-up by the Greens and a "we're considering it" by the Liberal and Labor parties.
The Launceston Tramway Museum Society has compiled a b
14 Mar 10 | ONE week out from polling day and the North-West Coast has begun to hear about the possibility of hundreds of new jobs.
Premier David Bartlett toured the Sitel call centre site in Devonport late l
14 Mar 10 | CANBERRA - Pensioners will still get more money later this month despite a rise in the pension deeming rate, the Federal Government says.
Families and Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin sai
13 Mar 10 | VAUXHALL cars were first produced in London in 1903 and around World War I Vauxhall Motors was producing cars distinguished by its famed bonnet flutes.
General Motors of Detroit bought the financi
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