MACQUARIE Group will go ahead with a proposal to pay more of its bonuses in equity rather than cash after the government amended legislation introduced to change the taxation of share schemes.
THE United States has emerged from a long and crippling recession, posting its strongest growth in two years in the third quarter as government stimulus spurred consumer spending, official data showed overnight.
A WATER expert has warned that buying Australia's biggest cotton farm and its water rights for environmental flows would only marginally help the Murray River recover.
THE share market remained stronger at noon, albeit off its early peak, after better than expected economic growth numbers in the US overnight put a fire under the market.
MACQUARIE Group says its fiscal 2010 second half profit will be in line with the first half, which declined 21 per cent from the prior corresponding period.
