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Labor to wait for Senate report on FTA deal: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
Labor would not announce its policy on the Australia-United States free trade agreement until the Senate released its report into the deal, federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Mr Latham, on the fourth day of his pre-election roadshow in ...

US Congress moves to approve free trade deal with Aust

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2004
... House voted 314-109 to make Australia only the seventh nation to enjoy a bilateral free-trade relationship with the United States. The Senate is expected to follow suit tomorrow with a vote to implement the agreement signed by the two countries in February. ...

Ernst & Young confident of becoming NAB auditor, paper reports

... the NAB account. It has also conducted a detailed examination for potential conflicts of interest to meet tough United States requirements, the AFR said.

Bank stocks plunge after US rate rise

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2004
Bank stocks plunged yesterday after a rate rise in the United States stoked fears the same could follow here and curb the sector's growth. The previous night the US Federal Reserve lifted official interest rates by a quarter percent, the first increase ...

Aust govt not to raise objections to News Corp move

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2004
... federal government will not raise any objections to News Corporation relocation of its place of incorporation to the United States. Treasurer Peter Costello said today the government would not raise objections to the move under the Foreign Acquisitions ...

S&P says the exit of News Corp from ASX 200 index to be smooth

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2004
... to allow News Corp to remain on the benchmark Australian index when it relocated its country of domicile to the United States. Analysts said domestic fund managers were dumping shares because, once News Corp reincorporated in the US and obtained a spot ...

News Corp shares fall in early trade

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2004
... group Standard & Poor's said Rupert Murdoch's company could not sit in key market indices in both Australia and the United States. By 1022 AEST, News Corp's shares were 26 cents or 1.98% lower at $12.90 on a volume of 15.96 million while its preferred ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2004
... an exception to allow Rupert Murdoch's News Corp inclusion in key sharemarket indices in both Australia and the United States. News Corp shares slumped in early US trade and are expected to perform a similar feat here. However, other offshore equity ...

ASX refuses to confirm talk it is lobbying for News Corp index

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
... refused to confirm reports it was lobbying for an index that included News Corp shares once it shifts its base to the United States. Index operator Standard & Poor's has indicated it might not be able to include Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate in ...

ASX moves to keep News Corp in the top 200: report

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
... proposes to create two key indices, one including News Corp and the other excluding, allowing it to be added to the United States S&P 500. The newspaper said it understood that the head of S&P's global index committee, David Blitzer, thought the plan ...