SUSPICIOUS trading activity in Telstra shares before Sunday's announcement of an $11 billion deal with the government has led to calls for an investigation into possible insider trading. Shadow treasury spokesman Joe Hockey on Monday night called for the Australian Securities and

The State Opposition believes the Government is preparing to provide financial assistance to Aurora. On Wednesday, the Government dumped an election commitment to cap power price increases for all householders and small businessses, because of a stoush between Hydro and

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures have revealed private investment in Tasmania is dwindling. In the March 2009 quarter the total new capital expenditure was $318 million but in the March 2010 quarter that has dropped to $185 million. Shadow Treasurer Peter Gutwein says

THE biggest fall on global financial markets since the panic of 2008 halted suddenly in Australia yesterday, raising hopes that markets might avoid a second catastrophic meltdown. After a month of almost unbroken falls - more like free-fall over the past week - share prices and the

Be the first to comment Estimated costs for the Queensland Treasury Corporation to host 60 investment bankers and financiers from across the globe. The state-owned Queensland Treasury Corporation has splashed out on five-star hospitality for about 60 investment bankers and

THE Reserve Bank has reached a pivotal point in its program of rate rises, declaring the bulk of the work behind it. After three successive rate rises at the end of last year, the board's February minutes say rates are ''no longer exceptionally accommodative'', merely remaining ''somewhat

Greece turned to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2002, just after adopting the euro, to get $1 billion in funding through a swap on $10 billion of debt, Christoforos Sardelis , head of Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency at the time, said in an interview last week. Eurostat, the EU

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan expects inflation pressures to moderate over the near term, even though the latest reading is above expectations. The consumer price index (CPI) climbed by 2.1 per cent in the year to December, marking the fastest pace since March 2009. The result was

Albert Gonzalez is scheduled to plead guilty Dec. 29 in federal court in Boston to charges that he stole data on 130 million credit and debit cards from Heartland Payment Systems Inc. , 7-Eleven Inc., Delhaize Group’s Hannaford Brothers Co. and two unidentified national retailers. Gonzalez.