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Westpac completes $US525 million tier one securities offer

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2004
... sold outside New Zealand and Australia, primarily to US institutional investors. The securities pay a fixed rate in US dollars of 5.2% per annum for 12 years, after which time the rate resets to a margin above LIBOR. Westpac said the offer received strong ...

Market Wrap

... cent after US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony to congress on Wednesday drove investors to dump US dollars. Greenspan's commentary also removed speculation that interest rates in the US would rise any time soon. "Greenspan's seeming ...

Current account deficit improves in September quarter after some exports recover

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2003
... volume of rural exports rose two per cent while prices fell three per cent, as some trade contracts are written in US dollars. Wool and sheepskin exports rose while cereal and meat exports dropped. Imports also fell two per cent over the quarter, largely ...

Equity raisings down but debt issuance up in 2003: Thomson

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... Thomson Financial said Australian international bond issuance was "the motor" for the debt market. Bond volumes in US dollars, Euro and Yen more than doubled. JP Morgan led the bookrunner rankings, with $US8.0 billion in deals. About 86 per cent of total ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares open lower

... technology (1.2%) and property trusts (0.1%). In the foreign exchange market the Australian dollar was buying 0.6688 US dollars, up from 0.6635 on Friday. The local currency gapped through resistance levels following the weak US economic data and broad-based ...

BHP to issue $1.25 billion global bond

... proceeds of which will be used to "repay existing debt and for general corporate purposes." The bonds will be raised in US dollars and have been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The issuer of the notes will be BHP Billiton Limited. ...