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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 ...

New identity for AMP Henderson Global Investors

Although it may be prey of the National Australia Bank, the AMP continues to announce more changes. AMP Henderson Global Investors (HGI), the insurer's funds management division, today announced it will be renamed AMP Capital Investors. The change will ...

Great Southern Plantations set to raise $55 million through security issue

Great Southern Plantations said it intends to raise up to $55 million through the issue of Transferable Reset Exchangeable Securities (TREES). The funds will be used to provide additional working capital, predominantly for the acquisition of further ...

OECD predicts continued economic recovery

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced recently in a report published by its chief economist Jean-Philippe Cotis that a US economic recovery is unfolding whilst in Japan, growth has surprised on the upside, but in ...