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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
Universities are back in full swing here in Queensland, and what better way to kick off a new semester than with a blatant and petulant attack on female students? Student paper Gravity, the publication of the Griffith
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,
BY SEAN HEALY
The Australian Stock Exchange will cop a pasting on May 1, when thousands of anti-corporate protesters blockade its offices and surrounding streets. The major reason for protesters' choice of target is obvious — the stock exchange
BY EVA CHENG
Canadian police have launched a ferocious campaign to discredit, intimidate and, they no doubt hope, scare off would-be protesters from the April 20-22 Summit of the Americas (SoA) in Quebec City.
Leaders from 34 countries of the
$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.
The case of eight stonemasons, who were kept in a barbed wire enclosure and paid $145 a month, has highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia.
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — Resistance is urging high school students here to strike from 8.30am on May 1 and join the blockade of this city's stock exchange in protest at corporate globalisation.
Amie Hamilton, a Resistance member and high school
BY EVA CHENG
The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY — Paint company Mirotone has extended the lockout of its Queensland and NSW work force for another fortnight in an increasingly bitter campaign to break the 35-hour week and force workers out of the union and onto
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
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