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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... & Media Ltd's interim results are revealed to the market as are quarterly results of Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Cochlear Ltd, Count Financial, JB Hi-Fi Ltd and Leighton Holdings Ltd all report full year results. The Australian share ...

SWIFT protocols to slash transaction fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... cents if they adopt the new SWIFTNet Funds protocols. SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is the global co-operative for setting messaging standards governing how financial institutions communicate with each other. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... wine maker Evans & Tate Ltd is due. The Zinifex Ltd fourth quarter production report is due, while Singapore Telecommunications Ltd will hold its annual general meeting. In Perth, Wesfarmers Energy Ltd managing director Tim Bult is to address a lunch ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... steady at $4.71. The telco sector was lower, with Telstra down three cents to $4.64 and Optus-owner Singapore Telecommunications down four cents at $2.60. In other market news, business communications company Salmat Ltd launched today a $318 million ...

Another stellar year for the index

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... industrials sector was the best performer with a total return of 40.6 per cent, only 50 basis points ahead of telecommunications services at 40.1 per cent. Energy, despite being bottom of the table, still delivered a respectable 21.1 per cent. The rebalance ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... already reported on a massive shortfall in the budgeted infrastructure spending in areas such as roads, railways, telecommunications, electric power and sea and air ports. But the Federal budget's planned spend of $22.3 billion over five years, commencing ...

Biotech fund breaks into $4bn hearing loss sector

... technology company Sensear. Sensear is a Western Australian-based company that was spun off the Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI). It is due to launch its first commercial products later this year, hi-tech hearing muffs ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... will address a lunch of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia - the topic being the future of telecommunications in Australia. The Australian stock market closed weaker yesterday, with falls in China spooking investors and sending the bourse ...

Use super for national interests: Weaven

... of risk and return profiles." Among the sectors Weaven named were transport, logistics, power generation and telecommunications, all of which are currently under-invested according to the business community. "We have an ideal opportunity to build for ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... Australia's infrastructure, CEDA said, "Australia's infrastructure - investment in land, such as roads, railways, telecommunications, electric power, sea and air ports, and the like - is struggling to cope with the cumulative demands of Australia's sustained ...