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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
The Australian stock market has opened higher today on the back of record oil prices and a better performance on Wall Street overnight. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 76.7 points, or 1.42 per cent, to 5477.1, while the broader All ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
The Australian share market opened down this morning, then slipped lower in early trade, following yesterday's record close achieved on the back of strong retail performances. The bourse was dragged down by a weaker Wall Street and falling commodity ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
The pay packets of management are back in the spotlight with news that the average salary of chief executives in Australian chief executives has risen by about three hundred per cent over the last couple of decades and that within the top 50 companies ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
The US economy has received good news about the abatement of inflation with the release of consumer and producer price data showing that the consumer index fell by 0.5 per cent in September and that producer prices fell by 1.3 per cent largely as a ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The number of jobs created last month rose by 23,400 in seasonally adjusted terms to take the national number of people employed to 10.2655 million. Better news was that most of the employment gain was in full-time jobs which increased by 22,600 to ...

NAB completes $575m insurance sale to AXA

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has finally received the regulatory nod to complete the $575 million sale of MLC Hong Kong and MLC Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The bank flagged its intentions to divest its life insurance operations ...

NAB hands Asian life insurance to AXA

In a deal worth more than half a billion dollars, National Australia Bank (NAB) will divest its MLC life insurance businesses in Hong Kong and Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The $575 million sell-off is part of NAB's ongoing business ...

Economy withstands impact of tsunami

The devastating tsunami that struck South Asia just over a fortnight ago will have minimal economic impact on the region, according to AMP Capital Investors chief economist and head of investment strategy Dr Shane Oliver, as the cornerstone industries ...

ANZ sticks to earnings forecasts

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2004
ANZ Banking Group today stuck to its earnings guidance for the 2005 financial year, but said competition would continue to place pressure on margins. ANZ chairman Charles Goode also said there was likely to be some further easing in overall credit growth ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...