The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
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BY DR COSTA GAZI
[The following statement was written on behalf of the AIDS Babies Battling AIDS (ABBA) Trust by Dr Costa Gazi, the outspoken critic of South Africa's African National Congress government's policy of refusing to supply
Thousands of women and men turned out for International Women's Day rallies and marches around Australia last week.
From Sydney, Lisa Macdonald reports that more than 3000 people wound their way through the city centre on the morning of March 10
BY JIM GREEN
Australia was the sixth largest land-clearing country last year, according to a report released by the Australian Conservation Foundation on March 1. The issue is now a political hot potato.
The ACF report, Australian Land Clearing,
$1.2 billion: One day's trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
$1 billion: The amount needed to restore public funding of higher education in Australia to pre-1990 levels.
US$35.5 billion: One day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Vietnam and Other American FantasiesBy H. Bruce FranklinUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000256 pp, $59.95 (hb)
Elvis is alive and living in Los Angeles. Our planet is regularly visited by extraterrestrial beings who
ADELAIDE — McDonald's decision to sponsor this year's Clean Up Australia Day came under attack here on March 4, when 30 people protested outside the multinational's Rundle Mall store in protest at its hypocrisy.
Representatives of the S11
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — BHP Coal's head office here faces a protest by anti-corporate activists on March 16, who will act in solidarity with the struggle by BHP coalminers in central Queensland.
As part of a campaign to expose "corporate
BY ANTHEA STUTTER
HOBART — The announcement on the eve of International Women's Day that the Women's Health Foundation (Abortion Clinic) will be closing has raised questions about the ongoing access of women in Tasmania to necessary health care.
BY DOD ROSHANBIN
BRISBANE — Ross Daniels of Amnesty International told a public meeting here on March 1 that a 200-inmate immigration detention centre is planned for a yet to be revealed Brisbane site.
Daniels also said that the federal ALP's
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