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Home lending picks up again in March: RBA

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
Home lending picked up again in March to take annual growth to a new record high, new figures showed today, increasing the risk of an interest rate rise in coming months. Reserve Bank figures showed home lending jumped 2.1 per cent last month, from ...

Santos looks to new projects to rebound from Moomba disruption

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2004
... report since fire damaged its Moomba gas facility in South Australia on Jan. 1, Santos yesterday reported a big drop in March quarter production and revenue. Adelaide-based Santos said revenue fell to $256.4 million compared with a record quarterly revenue ...

China committed to strong measures to contain growth, Premier Wen says

... hoped to build on a partnership with the European Union -- his first visit to the continent since he was named premier in March 2003. But his strongest comments were reserved for his own economy, which logged 9.7 percent growth in the first quarter of ...

Japan's industrial output rises slightly in March, stronger growth ahead

Japan's industrial output rose only marginally in March but should power ahead in the coming months on the back of the nation's solid economic recovery, economists said yesterday. The trade ministry said March industrial production rose 0.1% after adjustment ...

US jobs confidence adds to recovery optimism

... a business group based in New York, said on Tuesday its index of consumer confidence rose to 92.9 in April from 88.3 in March, its highest since January. More to the point, the jobs-hard-to-get index within the group's survey fell to 27.6 in April from ...

Merchandise imports up 20%: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
Merchandise imports soared 20% to $11.3 billion in March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today. In its monthly merchandise imports report, the bureau said imports of machinery and transport equipment jumped by $1 billion or 25%. Imports of ...

Aust dlr begins week firm on back of $US weakness

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2004
... Michigan preliminary consumer index for April came in below expectations, US industrial production dropped unexpectedly in March and US capacity utilisation for March also fell, resulting in the market being less confident of an imminent US Federal Reserve ...

Hedge funds outperform

Hedge funds returned 0.29% in March, outperforming broad market indices, which produced negative returns in the month, according to US-based Hennessee Group. The March rise in the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index, a weighted average of the 24 Hennessee hedge ...

IOOF/Perennial tops survey

A 1.9% gain in March earned the IOOF/Perennial Balanced Fund the status of best performer in Mercer Investment Consulting's monthly survey of pooled funds, which look set to reward superannuation investors with double-digit returns for the 12 months ...

A$ drops against greenback

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2004
... in offshore trading. A US Department of Commerce report released overnight showing US retail sales rose 1.8 per cent in March, a much better than expected result, was taken as a confirmation that the US economic recovery was progressing. A strategist ...