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Australian economists expect RBA to leave rates unchanged in August

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2003
The majority of Australia's economists expect the nation's central bank board to leave interest rates unchanged after its meeting in Sydney today. It has been 426 days since the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) moved the official cash rate from 4.75 ...

CBA cuts 600 retail jobs

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2003
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) has cut 600 jobs from its retail division, in a bid to match branch staff numbers with falling demand for branch banking, it has announced. Despite the cuts, Australia's second biggest bank maintained it had ...

NZ watchdog allows Tower capital-raising to proceed

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2003
Tower's proposed capital-raising package underwritten by Guinness Peat Group (GPG) has been given the nod of approval by a New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) watchdog. The Market Surveillance Panel (MSP) today said it had granted GPG, which owns 9.9 per ...

RBA leaves interest rates at 4.75 per cent

Market speculation of an interest rate cut due to the strengthening Australian dollar has been cut short by the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to leave official cash rates unchanged at 4.75 per cent. "We still expect the Bank to leave rates ...

Centro, Westfield request trading halts pending announcements

Listed property groups Centro Properties and Westfield Trust have both requested trading halts pending announcements to the market due to be released later today. The announcements follow the news that AMP Life has agreed to waive the controversial ...

Westfield agrees $735.5 million three centre deal with Centro

Westfield Trust (WFT) has agreed on the conditional sale of three properties to Centro for a combined $735.5 million following this morning's announcement from AMP Life that it intended to waive the controversial pre-emptive rights it may have over ...

IFSA lauds Government's decision to reintroduce super reforms

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) today welcomed the Government's decision to push ahead with surcharge reduction and co-contributions reforms in Parliament. "This is just the boost we have been waiting for," said Richard Gilbert ...

Morning market wrap: Terror alert unnerves Wall St

The Dow Jones index recorded its third consecutive day of losses-albeit fractional-as the US government raised its terror alert to 'orange' following recent attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The warning came as Steve Kaseta, vice president of Boston-based ...

Morning market wrap: US shares mark time

US shares ran out of momentum on Wednesday as the Dow Jones lost 27.73 points as investors were prepared to wait on the sidelines in the absence of any market moving economic indicators. The FTSE-100, having broken 4,000 points on Tuesday, slipped back ...

Investment Analysis: RBA meets, rate cut unlikely

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets today but the chances of a change in interest rate policy are slim, according to Financial Standard chief economist Dr Robert Pereira. "It is a wait-and-see approach. They are waiting for the uncertainty of ...