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Australia's economic growth rate to pick up: Westpac

The latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity has predicted that Australia's economic growth rate is likely to pick up in the first half of 2004. The index shows the likely pace of economic activity for six to nine months ...

SG prices $220 million of super-senior notes

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2003
SG Australia, the corporate and merchant banking arm of Societe General Group (France), has priced $220 million of super-senior notes, it has announced. SG said the notes were part of the RBS Trust 2003-1 transaction. The transaction had been priced ...

Afternoon market wrap: Australian shares lag offshore gains

Australian shares continued to lag the strong gains overnight in US markets, and the solid advances today in major Asian markets. At the close, the All Ordinaries index was 8.2 points higher at 3,013.6. News Corporation and major resource stocks both ...

Challenger directors resign in wake of merger approval

Challenger International Ltd directors Gil Hoskins and Bill Ireland have resigned from the board of Challenger following the Federal Court approval the proposed merger between Challenger and CPH Investment Corp. Last week's approval has also prompted ...

FPA welcomes tax law amendment bill

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has welcomed the introduction of the Taxation Law Amendment Bill (No. 7) 2003 schedule 9 that aims to provide capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over relief for financial planning dealer groups. The Association said ...

ALP offers no suitable alternative on super bill: Coonan

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan has called the ALP's rejection of the Federal Government's superannuation surcharge legislation a "cynical stance by a party that has no comparable package of policies on offer". This ...

Annualised domestic growth rate jumps to 6.2%: Westpac

Australia's annualised growth rate of economic activity was 6.2 per cent in April, according to the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity. Westpac said the growth rate was an "extraordinary turnaround" from March's reading of ...

Superannuation bill rejected by Labor

Government plans to reduce the superannuation surcharge from 15 per cent to 10.5% and introduce an exclusive tax cut for high income earners were rejected last night as Labor opposed a superannuation bill in the Senate. "This is a blatantly unfair tax ...

Business confidence on upswing: ACCI and Westpac industrial survey

General business confidence is on a high in the wake of the 2003-04 Federal Budget and the Australian economy has continued to perform strongly in the 2003 June quarter, a survey of industrial trends by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

Merchandise imports drop to $10.397 billion in May: ABS

The total value of international merchandise imports decreased from $10.959 billion in April 2003 to $10.397 billion in May 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The bulk of the imports was in the machinery and transport equipment ...