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  • AM - Gillard outlines Labor's industrial relations plans

    Australian Broadcasting Corp. - It has taken 106 years but shortly Australia will have a woman as a deputy prime ... After all, we'd seen pledges in the past about interest rates, that hadn't come true. ... areas, maximising the benefits of work and maximising our participation rate. ...
    2007-11-25 06:35:00
  • INSIGHTS INTO THE WORLD / Japan-U.S. ties vital in dealing with China

    Daily Yomiuri On-Line - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda recently chose the United States as the destination of ... Chinese economy may successfully engineer a soft landing--keeping the growth rate ... However, their interest in Africa appears to have since been waning somewhat, a ...
    2007-11-25 10:21:00
  • Harper Agrees Dollar's Record High Was Speculative (Update1)

    Bloomberg - Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he agrees the surge in the country's currency to ... The Bank of Canada, meanwhile, is hinting it may be poised to lower its 4.5 percent benchmark interest rate. Bank of Canada ...
    2007-11-25 10:14:00
  • Mkts to remain volatile

    Daily Pioneer - ... Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday that India has remained largely insulated from the global turbulence caused by US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Chidambaram, however, said that there could be some moderation in exports demand. Though inflation rate ...
    2007-11-25 10:21:00
  • Australian voters throw Howard government out of office

    World Socialist Web Site - The anti-government sentiment was so strong that it claimed the scalp of Prime Minister John Howard himself, who lost his ... Howard’s WorkChoices industrial relations policy was deeply unpopular, while a series of interest rate rises over the past ...
    2007-11-25 09:48:00
  • Average Briton is now £33,000 in debt

    Daily Telegraph - Despite the prospect of annual charges and higher interest rates on monthly bills ... applied next year when more than a million people see their discounted fixed-rate ... recorded during his visit to Uganda for the Commonwealth summit the Prime Minister ...
    2007-11-25 10:31:00
  • Outlook for metals and minerals - Investor seminar

    Forbes - ... of record high oil prices, a rapidly slowing US housing market and a credit crunch precipitated by the US sub-prime ... Over time, market based exchange rates are likely to fluctuate on ever-shifting speculation about relative interest rate policies ...
    2007-11-25 10:17:00
  • OUTLOOK UK smaller company results for the week to Dec 7

    CNBC - WEDNESDAY NOV 28 Future PLC, the international special-interest media group ... mixing plant operation and the decision by the DoD to go ahead with Full Rate ... has already been announced and will open in Spring 2008; the second is the prime ...
    2007-11-25 10:24:00
  • Rudd moves quickly on Kyoto, IR

    News.com.au - The incoming prime minister has also repudiated Labor Party factions and trade unions by demanding the right to name his ... Don't forget interest rates were 22 per cent when Howard was Treasurer (higher than any Lab government interest rate) and that it ...
    2007-11-25 06:06:00
  • Former journalist Maxine McKew claims Bennelong

    News.com.au - ... has claimed Bennelong for the ALP - ending 33 years of dominance by former Prime ... Having a safety net leads to a lower crime rate. So what if you're giving money ... Interest rates up, prices up, jobs down, employment and factories and industry gone ...
    2007-11-25 06:49:00
  • Australian Financial Mkts Calm As Labor Government Heads For Office (Nasdaq)

    SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australian financial markets reacted favorably Monday to Saturday's emphatic election win by the Australian Labor Party which ousted the 11-year-old center-right coalition government and swept from parliament John Howard, the nation's second-longest serving Prime Minister.
    2007-11-25 04:09:48
  • Harper Agrees Dollar's Record High Was Speculative (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

    Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he agrees the surge in the country's currency to record highs earlier this month was speculative in nature and requires attention.
    2007-11-25 10:30:51
  • UPDATE: Australian Mkts Calm As Labor Government Heads For Office (Nasdaq)

    SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australian financial markets reacted calmly Monday to Saturday's emphatic election win by the Australian Labor Party, which ousted the 11-year-old center-right coalition government and swept from parliament John Howard, the nation's second-longest-serving Prime Minister.
    2007-11-25 07:54:08
  • McKew Set to Win Howard's Seat, First Leader to Lose Since 1929 (Bloomberg.com)

    Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Maxine McKew, a former journalist, is set to topple John Howard from his Sydney seat, making him the first Australian Prime Minister to be voted out of parliament since 1929.
    2007-11-25 08:00:13
  • Rudd, New Australian Leader, Targets Kyoto Accord (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

    Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd vowed to start work this week on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and strengthening workers' rights in a booming economy.
    2007-11-25 06:14:53