Published on June 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Interest Rates Relief At Last – The pause on rates followed the release of a swathe of economic data, including retail sales figures that showed higher consumer spending in March and April. While the surge in retail sales confirmed the domestic economic recovery was accelerating, it was partly offset by sharply lower residential building approvals [...]
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Published on May 12, 2010 by Technology Slice
Gold Futures Up To $1200 – Gold futures topped $1,233 an ounce in electronic trading Wednesday morning in Asia, extending the hefty gains seen in New York as European debt concerns continued to draw investors to the precious-metals market. June gold, the most active contract by volume and open interest, added $19.50, or 1.6%, to [...]
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Published on March 15, 2010 by Technology Slice
FaceBook Opening Office In India – Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users. The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook’s [...]
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Published on March 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Financial Crisis Isn’t Over – Australia cannot continue to rely on its place in Asia to dodge the fall-out from the global financial crisis, a leading foreign regulator has warned. The sovereign debt crisis enveloping the Mediterranean was set to spread, said Hans Hoogervorst, chairman of Dutch securities regulator the Netherlands Authority for the Financial [...]
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Published on February 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
China to Boost Australia – ECONOMIC growth in China and other Asian nations over the coming decades is expected to underpin the prospects for Australia’s economy, the central bank says. Reserve Bank assistant governor of economics Philip Lowe says Australia is in a stronger position than any other advanced economy after emerging from the global [...]
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