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Wholesale bank guarantee to be scrapped in April - radionz
The Government is to scrap a guarantee extended to the banks for wholesale funding introduced during the credit crunch following a similar move in Australia. Minister of Finance Bill English says the guarantee will cease at the end of next month ...

Wyo. gov heads to Australia to discuss coal issues - Forbes
CHEYENNE Wyo. -- Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal and First Lady Nancy Freudenthal plan to travel to Australia later this month to talk to officials there about coal-related issues similar to those facing the state. The Freudenthals will travel by ...

Chevron ax misses U.S. refineries - San Jose Mercury News
Chevron Corp. intends to keep its U.S. refineries open including the vast complex in Richmond at least for now the energy giant said Tuesday amid a far-reaching restructuring. Still Chevrons quest to slash its global refinery retail and ...

Bruker to buy Varian products to ease Agilent deal - Yahoo Finance
Bruker said it has agreed to acquire Varians Australia-based inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instruments business its Netherlands-based laboratory gas chromatography instruments business and its California-based gas chromatography ...

Northgate Minerals posts loss on charges - Yahoo Finance
DENVER AP -- Northgate Minerals Corp. a Canadian copper and gold mining company said Tuesday it reversed a profit and posted a fourth-quarter net loss largely because of an 83.5 million impairment charge. For the quarter that ended Dec. 31 ...

Bank guarantee scheme to end - ONE News
The government is to close its wholesale funding guarantee scheme at the end of April. The facility was set up in November 2008 following the global financial crisis. Finance Minister Bill English announced the end date at the New Zealand Australia ...

Bruker and Agilent Technologies Announce Agreement for Bruker to ... - Yahoo Finance
Varians global inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ICP-MS instruments business located in Melbourne Australia Varians global laboratory gas chromatography Lab GC instruments business located in Middelburg the Netherlands and ...

CERAWeek: Asia to dominate growing energy demand - PennEnergy
HOUSTON Mar. 9 -- Energy demand is shifting from the developed world to the developing world and Asia is expected to account for much of the growing demand during the next 20 years speakers told CERAWeek attendees on Mar. 8. IHS Inc. Chief ...

Australia's PM pledges increased hospital funding - Forbes
ADELAIDE Australia -- Australias prime minister proposed a sweeping overhaul of the nations health care system Wednesday that would bring hospitals and primary care under government control and increase annual federal funding by 11 billion ...

Rising rates, tough loan conditions and an end to grants stiffle home ... - Adelaidenow
... means that many first-time buyers are facing problems getting finance approved Loan Market national operations and risk manager Ivan Karamatic said. In South Australia State Government figures show the number of first-home buyer grants paid ...