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RBA decision to leave rates unchanged no surprise

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... effect. The central bank tightened rates in two quarter of a percentage point moves in November and December of 2003 in a bid to curb consumer lending and borrowing for housing but has kept them steady at its past two monthly meetings. No meeting is ...

NAB calls off crisis board meeting

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2004
... has rocked the bank and cost it $360 million. The board said it was calling an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in a bid to remove Walter after she refused to resign as a director. However yesterday, the embattled director hit back, calling on shareholders ...

ASIC drops receiver bid on Kaye emprie

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2004
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has dropped court moves to appoint a receiver to manage the assets of property broker Henry Kaye after an agreement between Mr Kaye and a liquidator. Liquidators of Mr Kaye's two collapsed ...

Institutions expected to back Pacific Brands bookbuild

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2004
The $1.3 billion float of Pacific Brands is expected to be heavily backed by institutions when they get a chance to bid todayfor shares in the maker of some of Australia's most iconic labels. A three-day institutional bookbuild begins for shares in ...

Kennedy loses bid to keep notes to lawyer from ASIC

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2004
Sydney businessman Trevor Kennedy has lost his bid to keep two pages of notes to his lawyer out of the hands of the corporate watchdog. Mr Kennedy had applied to the Federal Court for a permanent injunction to prevent the Australian Securities and Investment ...

CBA business arm sets aside $2 billion to restore market share

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia's business banking arm has set aside $2 billion to lend to companies by June 30, as part of a bid to restore market share. The funds will be lent to clients across the bank's Institutional and Business Services (IBS) division ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2004
... $US0.7748 in overnight trading. The share market is likely to gain ground as investors take a positive lead from Wall St and bid stocks higher. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was two points lower at 3306.5 while the all ordinaries index scraped off ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2004
... breather until Wall St returns from a public holiday, but investors could take an upbeat lead from other key offshore markets and bid stocks higher. Yesterday, the Australian share market performed strongly with oversold resource stocks rebounding as ...

NAB competitors stand by risk management systems

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
The banking industry is reviewing its foreign exchange risk controls, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the $180 million rogue trading scandal at National Australia Bank. The nation's biggest banks said they were examining their systems for monitoring the ...

Industry fund follows name change trend to broaden membership

The Combined Schools Superannuation Fund became the latest fund to change its name in a bid to widen its membership base. The fund, one of the major providers of superannuation and retirement benefits to the private education sector, will now be known ...