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Current account improves marginally in Q4

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
Australia's current account deficit improved marginally in the three months to December after a recovery in rural exports. But the deficit of $12.01 billion, from an upwardly revised $12.09 billion in September, was substantially above market expectations ...

American wheat growers slam FTA

American wheat growers have criticised a free trade agreement with Australia for failing to tackle export monopolies. The US Wheat Associates said the deal, signed this week, had failed to bring down the export monopoly enjoyed by AWB Ltd. AWB, through ...

St George announces Crusade Trust No. 1 program

St George Bank Ltd today announces the start of a marketing campaign for a proposed global mortgage backed securities issue under the Crusade securitisation program. St George said the issue is to be known as Crusade Global Trust No.1 of 2004. The securities ...

New NAB boss has own suspicions about rogue trading scandal

New National Australia Bank Ltd boss John Stewart today said investigations into the bank's foreign exchange trading scandal would likely find "people who were asleep on watch". While Mr Stewart said the truth about the rogue trading scandal would not ...

Macquarie Bank cuts commitment to MEAP fund

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2003
Macquarie Bank Ltd today said it was cutting its investment in its Canadian infrastructure fund, as the fund secured another $C100 million from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Macquarie Bank said it reduced its commitment to Macquarie Essential ...

Home building up, merchandise imports down in September quarter

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
Home building activity picked up in the three months to September, the first rise in a year, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the number of new homes begun in the September quarter rose 5.5 per cent after falling ...

AMP to offer $585 million shortfall from rights issue

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
Financial services group AMP Ltd said today it had received acceptances under its rights offer of $A600 million, leaving a shortfall of $585 million. AMP chief executive officer Andrew Mohl said the shortfall in the Rights Offer had been anticipated. ...

New name for AMP's demerged Australian operations

Following Federal Court approval last Friday of its proposed demerger, AMP today relaunched its Australasian investment management business under the banner of AMP Capital Investors. The business formerly traded as AMP Henderson Global Investors. "Our ...

AMP wins federal court approval for demerger

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2003
Troubled financial services group AMP Ltd today won final approval for its plan to split its Australian and British operations. AMP said its demerger had been approved by the Federal Court in Sydney. AMP said it had lodged the Federal Court order with ...

AMP shareholders vote in favour of demerger proposal

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2003
AMP Ltd shareholders today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the troubled financial services group spinning off its ailing British business from its Australasian operations. More than 300 shareholders turned up to a special meeting in Sydney to vote ...