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Market Wrap

The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory this morning, following a bounce on US equity markets overnight. All three major US stock indices scambled higher by the close of trade after the US Commerce Department released softer-than-expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
... yesterday, St George Bank soared after a good profit result as the Australian stock market nudged its way into positive territory despite a fall by most of the big four banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 8.9 points at 3391.2, and the all ordinaries ...

Super Cheap Auto gears up for IPO

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2004
... has grown rapidly in the past decade, ramping up from seven stores in 1993 to 173 across every Australian state and territory and across the Tasman in 2004. More than 50 stores have opened over the past 12 months. The company increased sales by 47 per ...

BAD tax to be scrapped

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2004
State and territory governments today agreed to shoot down the Bank Accounts Debit (BAD) tax more than four years after Treasurer Peter Costello put the tax in his sights. The meeting of federal state and territory treasurers agreed the BAD tax would ...

Home loan affordability lowest in over eight years

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
... buyers to enter the property market. During the December quarter of 2003, home loan affordability in every state and territory plunged to its lowest level since the June 1995 quarter, according to the AMP Banking/Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) ...

Investors given chance to help the environment

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
... chooses to accept correspondence electronically. Money raised will go toward reforestation projects in whichever state or territory the shareholder lives. For every $2 donation four trees will be planted. If 10 per cent of all Australian shareholdings ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
... overnight. It reached a high of $US0.7550 in the London session. The Australian share market is likely to move into negative territory at the open following on from losses on offshore markets overnight. The broader Australian all ordinaries index was ...

RBA widens repo net

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
... March 15, it would widen the range of securities it accepted under repurchase agreements (repos) and include State and Territory authorities' securities in its domestic holdings. At present, the range of securities the Reserve Bank (RBA) accepts under ...

Australian Agricultural Co reports net loss

... had improved significantly across most of the company's property portfolio and also across Queensland and the Northern Territory, following very good wet season rains in January and early February 2004. "This will result in dramatically improved pasture ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2004
... yesterday's close of 0.7588/92. It reached a high of $US0.7700 overnight. The share market is likely to fall into negative territory after a weaker session on Wall St overnight. Yesterday, Australian stocks ground higher on the back of major resources ...