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Costello says inflationary pressure in check

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... the period ahead, with trading partners recovering and the drought breaking, despite the drag on exports from the higher Aussie dollar. "The Australian economy is well position to maintain solid growth over the period ahead, with domestic demand retaining ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bank shares surge, dollar jumps on interest rate hike

... bounced from $US0.7300 to 0.7316 at 0933 AEDT. "The increase was pretty much as expected and factored into markets and the Aussie dollar was up sharply overnight," he said. The local unit hit a high of $US0.7325 overnight on a weakening US dollar. All ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar pushes over 73 US cents

... the board. "The US dollar was weaker right across the board - the yen was back under 109.00, euro back up to fresh highs, Aussie up to $US0.7325, also, gold rallied up to $US405.50," Ms Masters said. "So (there was) broad based US dollar move last night." ...

Business expectations deteriorating: ACCI/Westpac

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2003
... utilisation rose to a 15-year high, although employment softened. But forward projections of orders plunged and the higher Aussie dollar was expected to cut exports back, while cost pressures rose and profit expectations for the next 12 months halved. ...

Morning Market Wrap: New six-year high for dollar

... global economic outlook. "People are going to attribute it to the Reserve Bank," he said. "Of all the influences on the Aussie, the interest rate differential tends to be, over time, the least important. "But that's certainly going to be the one that ...

Current account deficit improves in September quarter after some exports recover

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2003
... then the impact of SARS depressed exports. Today's figures showed exports fell two per cent in the quarter as the higher Aussie dollar took a toll on recovering rural exports. The volume of rural exports rose two per cent while prices fell three per ...

Midday market wrap: $A weaker at noon as market drifts without US impetus

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003
... said the domestic market was very quiet due to the absence of the US market as that country celebrates Thanksgiving. "The Aussie seems stuck around the $US0.7220 level," he said. "People are still looking to buy dips under $US0.7200, looking for a break ...

Afternoon market wrap: shares close firmer

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2003
... generated a significant portion of their earnings offshore. "There's a bit of improved sentiment as a result of the weaker Aussie dollar," he said. At 1627 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 13 points higher ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits new high overnight

... later in the night, a headline that the White House had been evacuated, and that reinforced those geopolitical risks. "Aussie was at a fresh high, so was the euro and kiwi and the Swiss franc was very strong." In Sydney today, Woolworths is expected ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar stronger at noon

... market saw it as a relatively bearish US dollar event and drove the euro to lifetime highs against the US dollar, he said. "Aussie has tracked that to some degree," Mr Ferguson said. "Base metals still look positive, gold is up around $400, so there's ...