Suresh Rajan

FOR months we have advocated the need for Telstra to demonstrate to the market that it was clear about the need for management change.

THURSDAY is the day that Telstra 2 shareholders need to make their second payment.

Economy: The Australian economy continues to perform strongly growing between 4 per cent and 5 per cent per annum. Solid growth during the first half of 2000 kept the annual rate of rise in growth at 4.7 per cent pace.

Economy: Latest US economic data continues to point to a slowdown in economic activity as higher interest rates and oil prices bite into consumer spending.

THIS IS going to be a big week for markets to absorb and will help determine the direction of interest rates in Australia and the US.

THE proposed Federal law relating to pre-marital financial agreements has huge implications for financial advisers and accountants.The proposed law will enable couples, before, during or after marriage, to make binding financial agreements in relation t

AUSTRALIA has not experienced the end of the tightening interest rate cycle, according to Westpac.Its core view had been for two Reserve Bank increases of 0.25 per cent each in October and November.

AT A time when bank fees are escalating at an astronomical rate there is yet another orgy of rewarding salaries and options being paid to chief executives of major banks.The latest is the Commonwealth Bank. Its shareholders will meet next month to decid

RESERVE Bank intervention could return some sanity to the currency market, according to David Hudson, chairman of the asset allocation committee of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.