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Target, Kmart buoy resilient Wesfarmers

The company also delighted investors concerned about the long-promised turnaround of its Coles food and liquor business, as the division showed tangible results from the massive investment by Wesfarmers in the group, with revenue and earnings before interest and tax growing strongly. Its chief

China"s recovery gains momentum

December 11, 2009 The consumer price index climbed 0.6 per cent over a year earlier last month as prices for energy, property and many commodities rose, the National Statistics Bureau reported. China's economy expanded 8.9 per cent from a year earlier in the third quarter of this...
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China"s recovery gains momentum

December 11, 2009 The consumer price index climbed 0.6 per cent over a year earlier last month as prices for energy, property and many commodities rose, the National Statistics Bureau reported. China's economy expanded 8.9 per cent from a year earlier in the third quarter of this...
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China"s recovery gains momentum

China's economic recovery gained momentum in November as industrial output, retail sales and investment all showed solid growth and consumer prices saw their first increase in 10 months. The consumer price index climbed 0.6 per cent over a year earlier last month as prices for energy,...
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China"s recovery gains momentum

The consumer price index climbed 0.6 per cent over a year earlier last month as prices for energy, property and many commodities rose, the National Statistics Bureau reported. China's economy expanded 8.9 per cent from a year earlier in the third quarter of this year, after seeing growth dip to...
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China posts rise in output, retail sales

AP China's economic recovery gained momentum in November as industrial output, retail sales and investment all showed solid growth and consumer prices saw their first increase in 10 months. The consumer price index climbed 0.6 per cent over a year earlier last month, as prices for...
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China to boost domestic demand, exports

AFP China said Monday it would maintain its pro-growth monetary policy for 2010, while also pushing on with efforts to stimulate domestic demand and boost exports, state media reported. The announcement came at the end of a key annual economic meeting to outline policy for next...
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Bernhard Madoff | From Manhatten high life to the lower bunk

Bernard Madoff ... will die in prison. Photo: Reuters Fallen US financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a

Bernhard Madoff | From Manhatten high life to the lower bunk

Bernard Madoff ... will die in prison. Photo: Reuters Fallen US financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a

Sydney's transport system run off the rails

After four election victories in a row, the New South Wales Labor Government's 15-year reign is entering a spectacular endgame.

Too early to slow stimulus spending: G20

Treasurer Wayne Swan says finance ministers from the world's largest industrial economies agree that it is too early to start winding back stimulus spending.

Too early to slow stimulus spending: G20

Treasurer Wayne Swan says finance ministers from the world's largest industrial economies agree that it is too early to start winding back stimulus spending.

Russians crack down on gambling

A new law has come into effect in Russia, confining gambling to four regions far from the capital Moscow.