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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2004
The Australian share market is likely to track sideways after a lacklustre session on Wall St overnight, but stronger commodities prices could drive resources stocks higher. In New York, key indices ticked in both directions. The broad Standard & Poor's ...

CBA CEO David Murray to stay on in top job

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2004
... intention of making way for a fresh leader at the nation\'s second biggest bank. The issue of succession at CBA was brought into focus last week by the departure of former chief financial officer Michael Ullmer. Analysts speculated that Mr Murray\'s ...

Japanese invest A$120 million in local listed property fund

Japanese retail investors continue their attraction to the Australian property market, having injected A$120 million into a new Australian Listed Property Trust (LPT) fund managed by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM). The Merrill Lynch Global ...

Mariner announces close of first property trust

... forecasting an annual distribution return of 8.5% to June, 2008 based on a $1 unit price. Mariner was established in 2003 with a focus on servicing Australia's retirement incomes market. AAP

AMP says NZ restructuring to improve performance

... are having this meeting in Wellington and plan to have a main board meeting in Auckland in October shows that we have more focus now on our New Zealand business," Mr Mohl said. He said since AMP split from its British operations in December, the firm's ...

Super Focus on Budget release

Industry groups are scrambling ahead of tomorrow night to include widespread changes to the current superannuation regime. The Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of Superfunds in Australia have both released papers ahead of tomorrow ...

Just Group IPO falls short of hoped-for price

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2004
... future for Just Group and its shareholders," Mr Pinshaw said. Managing director Howard McDonald said management can now focus fully on further developing Just Group and its brands. "Our results have been ahead of expectations in the third quarter (February ...

RBA decision to leave rates expected and clear cut: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to leave rates unchanged today was largely expected by the market and pretty clear cut, economists said today. At 0930 AEST the RBA announced it would leave rates at 5.25%, following its board meeting yesterday. ...

ASIC issues stop orders against six debenture prospectuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued six stop orders on debenture prospectuses since the beginning of the year and yesterday gave guidelines to protect investors. ASIC said today it has been scrutinising recent debenture ...

Santos looks to new projects to rebound from Moomba disruption

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2004
... of building annual production to record levels over the next few years," Ellice-Flint said. He said Santos continued to focus on developing its strong line-up of growth projects and was working towards approval of three significant new growth projects ...