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Anti-spam bill passed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Australians may soon get relief from annoying, unsolicited emails after the House of Representatives today passed a bill to combat spam emails. The bill will give the Australian Communications Authority the power to issue formal warnings, seek injunctions ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar up after employment announcements

The Australian dollar shot back towards near six year highs in response to a rise in the nation's employment level in September. The domestic unit bounced from $US0.6902 prior to the 1130 AEST announcement of the data to $US0.6927 at 1139 AEST, fractionally ...

Moody's launches Australia/NZ web site

Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service today launched a specialist web site for its Australian and New Zealand products and research. The site will allow users to look up Australian and New Zealand rating actions as well as provide news and research ...

AMP shares up on hopes of reinsurance sale

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2003
Shares in AMP Ltd rose by more than one per cent in early trade today amid reports that it could be close to selling its global reinsurance business for $600 million. AMP's shares were eight cents or 1.21 per cent higher at $6.70 by 1057 AEST. Analysts ...

Economists expect sedate employment growth for September

Economists have forecasted that Australia's workforce is likely to grow at a more sedate pace in September after August's massive growth rate which culminated in the unemployment rate being at a 13-year low of 5.8 per cent. The median of market forecasts ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bond market stronger after yesterday's sell off

The Australian bond market opened slightly stronger today, halting yesterday's sharp sell off. At 0900 AEST the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.545 per cent from 5.570 at yesterday's close. The yield on the November 2006 ...

Investors happy to "Buy the dips": FSIU survey

Australian investment professionals remain undaunted by the fall in equity markets during September, if anything becoming slightly more optimistic on the prospects for both the Australian and international markets in the next 12 months, according to ...

AMP asks for more debt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003
Troubled fund manager and life insurer AMP Ltd has reportedly asked Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to accept a higher level of debt in its United Kingdom operations. AMP wanted permission to increase the debt in a "last ditch effort to ...

ASIC bars former securities dealer from practicing financial services

Former Victorian securities dealer Martin James Donohue has been permanently banned from acting as a securities dealer or investment adviser representative, following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). During ...

Trust Company upgrades full-year profit expectations

Trust Company has upgraded its expected earnings before business and tax, for the financial year ended 28 February 2004, to be around $17 million - $3 million higher than the previous expectation announced in May 2003. Operating revenue is also expected ...