Merrill Lynch analysts said Israel’s upcoming classification as a developed market by Morgan Stanley on May 31 would make the country stand out among its peers. Calling the move a natural progression, the analysts said the Israeli market’s higher commodity prices, relatively high dividend payouts and economic stability that were less attractive to emerging market […]
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As reported by TLV Insider, the Israeli economy has bounced back from last years GFC. At the beginning of 2009, things looked very difficult or even gloomy, but since then, the government adopted a new economic policy. Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars, or in our case, of shekels, on stimulus plans to […]
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Australian National Broadband Network
In late 2008, the Federal Government of Australia announced it will start a company, called NBN Co., that will invest up to AU$43 billion over eight years to build and operate a National Broadband Network (NBN) delivering superfast broadband to Australian homes and workplaces through cabled fiber to the home, satellite and wireless technologies. The […]
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Arrow Ecology
Arrow Ecology is an Israeli company dealing in waste management and is one of the leading waste management companies in the world. Arrow Ecology have achieved this through the development of the ArrowBio waste solution. ArrowBio is an integrated solution for the treatment of municipal solid waste, and is a product of ArrowEcology. The ArrowBio facilities […]
THE Federal Government will spend $69 million to reduce the risk of terrorist attack across Australia. The long-awaited counter terrorism white paper was released today by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at Parliament House in Canberra. The money will fund the introduction of biometric-based systems and reduce the risk of terrorists, criminals and other persons of […]
The Technology Center will focus on entrepreneurship of renewable energy solutions. Its objective will be to enable entrepreneurs to develop renewable energy R&D projects, and bring them to advanced stages of testing, and ultimately, to marketability and export.
The Bank said recent increases in the index indicate continued recovery in economic activity According to Bank of Israel figures released last Thursday, Israel’s economic performance index, or “S” index, rose 0.2% in January, its 11th increase in a row. In a statement accompanying the figures, the Bank said that the rise was […]
As reported in the Invest In Israel Newsletter, Israel’s central bank has raised its economic forecast for 2010, citing an improved outlook for global growth and world trade. The Bank of Israel now expects the economy to grow 3.5% this year, compared with its previous forecast last September of 2.5%. Earlier, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch […]
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Taking the Textbook Approach
Australian Financial Review Report: Stanley Fischer wrote the book on economics. His textbook, Macroeconomics, educated the past generation of economists. He supervised the PhD thesis of Fed Governor Ben Bernanke at MIT. So you would think Fischer would be a little ashamed of his profession in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Has he […]
R&D Info report: CSIRO’s latest research flagship, the $70 million Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, has been officially launched with the aim of increasing productivity by 50% and reducing carbon emissions by the same amount across Australia’s agricultural and forestry sectors. CSIRO chief executive Dr Megan Clark said CSIRO scientists will collaborate with government agencies, universities and agribusinesses […]
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