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Home loan affordability falls to a seven year low: AMP/REIA

The affordability of home loans across Australia has fallen to a seven year low according to the AMP Banking/REIA Home Loan Affordability Indicator released today. The national Home Loan Affordability Indicator (HLAI), the ratio of median family income ...

Macquarie agrees to enforceable undertaking by ASIC

Macquarie Investment Management Limited (MIML), a Macquarie Bank Group company, has agreed to an enforceable undertaking accepted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to improve its compliance with ASIC's policy on prospective ...

Midday market wrap: $A firmer but bonds weaker

The Australian dollar was marginally firmer but had unravelled a good deal of its offshore gains to noon. At 1200 the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.6476/81 compared with yesterday's close of 0.6475/80. The Australian currency hit a two-week ...

Two Wattle administrators given suspended sentence

Wattle scheme administrators Anne and Robert Corbett were today sentenced in the Brisbane District Court in relation to 48 charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests, in contravention of the Corporations Act. Mrs Corbett ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail higher

The All Ordinaries trailed higher by almost 0.4 per cent, whilst Hong Kong's Hang Seng dipped lower by nearly 0.7% and Tokyo's Nikkei index rose by nearly a third of one per cent. The ANZ job advertisement series data report for August released today ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

The number of job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose by 1.5 per cent in August, to an average of 21,081 per week, the highest level since February and 0.3% higher than in August last year. "The modest upward trend in job advertising ...

ICAP says US current account deficit causing considerable global uncertainty

Economists at ICAP have said that the capital flows that have been behind the blow out in the US current account deficit will not reverse quickly and that was leaving the global financial markets to face considerable uncertainty over the next few years. ...

UK brokerage firm to launch "socially irresponsible" investment fund

UK brokerage firm Willis Owen has unveiled plans to launch a 'vice' fund dedicated to putting money in companies shunned by ethical investment campaigners. This fund will focus in particular on "high dependency" stocks - such as shares in betting shops ...

ANZ responds to NZ poor management report

ANZ Banking Group Ltd has hit back at a report in New Zealand that claimed it has a poor management culture with a poor reputation for looking after its customers. ANZ, which is attempting to buy the National Bank of New Zealand, came under fire in ...

Retail trade increases 0.8% to $15.12 billion in July: ABS

Retail Trade in Australia had reached $15.12 billion in July, reflecting an increase of 0.8 per cent in value compared with the month of June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. This follows revised increases of 1.2% in June 2003 and 0.2% ...