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S&P affirms A-minus rating on Medicare Insurance

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2003
Standard & Poor's said today that it affirmed its A-minus counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Medical Insurance Society Ltd (MIS). The outlook is stable. The ratings on MIS reflect its position as a core operating subsidiary ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Quiet end to ASX week

Australian stocks ended the week on a positive but quiet note, as a rally in Telstra and key resources stocks helped lift the bourse in subdued trade. After jumping more than one per cent yesterday, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index firmed another 3.9 ...

Midday Market Report: Dollar firm; All eyes on Japan

The Australian dollar was firmer to noon but remained locked in a range as global players await further direction from US economic data. At 1200 the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.6849/52 compared with yesterday's close of 0.6840/46. The local ...

Telstra announces off market share buy back

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
Telstra Corp Ltd today said it would buy back between $800 million and $1 billion of its own shares in an off market tender process. Telstra, which had flagged the possibility of a share buyback when it announced its full year results recently, said ...

S&P assigns preliminary ratings to Interstellar RMBS program

International ratings agency Standard & Poor's today assigned its preliminary ratings to the fifth issue this year under the Interstar Millennium residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) program. Interstar Millennium Series 2003-5G Trust will issue ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
Australian life insurer AMP Ltd is leaning towards returning ownership of its struggling British assets to shareholders rather than selling them off, a source close to the talks told Reuters on Monday. "At the moment it looks like the demerger is the ...

Morning market wrap: US stocks up, dollar sinks to fresh lows

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
US stocks bounced back overnight, supported by selective buying in the technology sector. The partial rebound follows a week in which markets were hit hard by increasing concerns over the strength of the US economic recovery. The Nasadaq composite index ...

International trade deficit narrows to $1.9 billion in August: ABS

Australian exports of goods and services rebounded by five per cent in August, helping to push the trade deficit back below $2.0 billion, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has reported. In a tentative sign foreign demand may finally be strengthening ...

BHP Billiton benefits from lnickel upswing underestimated: analysts

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
BHP Billiton Ltd's earnings benefits from the upswing in the stainless steel cycle had been underestimated, analysts said today. The comments came after the global miner updated the market on its plans to increase nickel production in a bid to meet ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ords follow US lead downwards

As expected, the All Ordinaries followed the lead by its US counterparts in Wall Street as indices dipped lower due to the sudden OPEC decision to reduce oil supplies by 3.5 per cent and send oil prices higher. The decision by OPEC is unlikely to have ...