The Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes) on 26 November issued its opinion on the draft law on the state revenue and expenditure budget for 2025 and the draft law on multiannual financial programming for the period 2024-2028. The opinion deplores the tripling of the country’s debt since 2008 and, above all, the lack of…
Tariffs: What you need to know President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. Here’s what you need to know. Tariffs are a tax on imports They are typically charged as a percentage of the price…
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Key Points The changes would apply to all graduates earning up to $180,000 a year. Graduates earning $70,000 will pay $1,300 less. The government will aim to legislate the changes in 2025 to take effect from 1 July. Three million Australians will have lower annual student debt repayments if the government wins the next election…
(Bloomberg) — For the hundreds of investors claiming to target net-zero portfolios, their largest holdings are often their biggest problem. That’s because the $64 trillion global market for sovereign bonds is largely inhospitable to sustainability-minded investing. Why? There are only a limited number of issuers (fewer than 150 globally compared with more than 70,000 corporate bond…
PUBLISHED : 26 Nov 2024 at 16:26 Small Medium Large People discuss financial deals at Money Expo 2024 Bangkok on May 16, 2024. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) … Read the original article here
Banks’ NPLs in Thailand at three-year high as debt-relief planned The Edge Markets MY Read the original article here
Albanese will make the announcement at a rally with South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas on Sunday. It will be the first in a series of speeches over coming weeks in which the prime minister will outline his second-term agenda after weeks plagued by his off-taste Tourette’s insult, the purchase of a $4.3 million holiday home,…
The federal government has rising university student fees in its sights for the next stage of its university debt overhaul, with a government source saying a one-off 20 per cent cut to debts is an interim measure. Labor has made an election promise to wipe an average of $5,500 from existing student HECS debts and…
The Albanese Labor Government will raise the minimum repayment threshold for student loans and cut repayment rates to make the repayment system fairer for all Australians with a student debt – around 3 million people. From 1 July next year, the Government will reduce the amount Australians with a student debt have to repay per…