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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 ...

Industrial disputes cost 244,600 working days for the year: ABS

The number of industrial disputes across Australia during the year ended to June 2003 was 702 and has involved 133,700 workers and cost the nation 244,600 working days, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. This data also reveals that ...

Westpac-Melbourne Institute index indicates rise in economic activity

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2003
The outlook for domestic economic activity in 2004 is bright after the fourth consecutive monthly rise in a leading indicator. The annualised growth rate of the Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity was 4.6 per cent in July ...

Macquarie equities launches Equinox fund

Macquarie Equities Ltd today launched Equinox, a specialist investment fund of international trading strategies, it announced. The Equinox portfolio offers investors access to returns from a selection of sophisticated traders and international hedge ...

FPA introduces summer school to fast track education programs

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has launched a more flexible method of learning to fast track its students through its education courses. The FPA Summer School will provide students with an opportunity to complete existing qualifications or ...

Macquarie inaugurates pioneer German traffic project

The Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG) has today advised that the Warnow Tunnel in Rostock, Germany, has been opened to traffic since Friday 12 September 2003. MIG owns 70 per cent of Warnowquerung GmbH &Co, the entity with the concession to develop ...

S&P maintains BankWest credit rating

Standard & Poor's said today that it affirmed it's A long-term counterparty credit rating on the Bank of Western Australia Ltd and removed it from CreditWatch with positive implications. The A-1 short-term rating, which was affirmed on May 12, is unchanged. ...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

Australia's current unemployment rate, announced at a 13-year low 5.8 per cent yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), is far lower than the standardised unemployment rate of 7.2% (July 2003) for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...