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Afternoon market wrap: All Ords recover from opening losses

The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues closed at 10,229.57 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, down 88.87 points, or 0.86 percent, from Friday. The Australian share market recovered early losses but still closed down today, as key resources and ...

International trade deficit narrows to $1.9 billion in August: ABS

Australian exports of goods and services rebounded by five per cent in August, helping to push the trade deficit back below $2.0 billion, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has reported. In a tentative sign foreign demand may finally be strengthening ...

ANZ still has some hurdles to jump in NBNZ aquisition

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
The New Zealand regulator may have cleared the way for ANZ Banking Group Ltd to acquire the National Bank of New Zealand (NBNZ) but there are still a few hurdles left for the Australian bank to jump. ANZ is the only bank ready to buy NBNZ from Lloyds ...

Public sector employment rises 1% to 1,521,500: ABS

The number of total public sector employees increased by one per cent to 1,521,500 for the year to May 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. Of this figure, state government staff (the highest public sector category) increase by 0.8% ...

Public sector employment rises 1% to 1,521,500: ABS

The number of total public sector employees increased by one per cent to 1,521,500 for the year to May 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. Of this figure, state government staff (the highest public sector category) increase by 0.8% ...

S&P reduces Carter Holt rating to A-3

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2003
Standard & Poor's has reduced New Zealand's second largest listed company's short-term credit and commercial paper rating from A-2 to A-3. S&P said it had reduced wood processor Carter Holt Harvey's rating as a result of a review of the company's 50.46 ...

S&P says Coles result has no impact on ratings

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2003
Coles Myer Ltd's annual result was above expectations but would have no impact on the retailer's ratings or outlook, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today. The ratings agency said Coles Myer's underlying profit result of $455.6 million, up from ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ords dragged down by CBA news

Tokyo share prices fell 0.86 per cent today in what dealers said was a technical correction to the market's recent sharp rise. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei-225 index dropped 94.90 points to end at 10,938.42. The Australian stock market ended its ...

Focus on China-US bilateral trade in upcoming Dubai summit: ICAP

G7 finance ministers are to get together this weekend in Dubai to compare notes, whilst the outlook for economic growth appears to be better than it has been for some years, economists at ICAP said in their Weekly Insights report released today. ICAP ...

Tasmanian adviser faces 110 ASIC charges

A former financial adviser from Sandy Bay, Tasmania, appeared today in the Hobart Magistrates Court on a total of 110 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC alleges that between July 1995 and May 2003 Mervyn ...