Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2931 - 2940 of 2958 results for "August 27"

August survey reveals a market bare of bears

Australian shares will show significant increases in value over the next six months according to both investors and financial planners sentiment regarding the share market, a survey has revealed. The Australian Investors Association (AIA) and Adviser ...

Building approvals rise 6.2% in June: ABS

Australian building approvals rose 6.2 per cent to 14,604 units in June, seasonally adjusted, from an upwardly revised 13,757 units in May, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has reported. This puts the number of new houses in the pipeline at ...

Great Southern Plantations to be Added to the S&P/ASX 200 Index

Standard & Poor's, equity indices provider, has announced that it has added Great Southern Plantations (Code: GTP) to the S&P/ASX 200 index. The addition will be effective after the close of business on 1 August 2003 and will be reflected in the starting ...

Holcim Finance prices $260 million MTN

Holcim Finance Australia today priced the Australian bond market's largest ever BBB-plus debt issue in its debut offering to the local market. The two tranche $260 million medium term note (MTN) offering was oversubscribed with both domestic and offshore ...

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 ...

Local rate cut still possible: ICAP

The US economy is on the mend, and global bond markets will continue to feel the ripples over the balance of 2003, according to interdealer broker ICAP. But ICAP says the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will maintain an easing bias through this period ...

Australia's economic growth rate to pick up: Westpac

The latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity has predicted that Australia's economic growth rate is likely to pick up in the first half of 2004. The index shows the likely pace of economic activity for six to nine months ...

AMP SPP price at $4.82 per share

AMP has announced that shareholders who participated in its recent Share Purchase Plan (SPP) would pay $4.82 per share, following the close of the pricing period. This price represents a 5 per cent discount to the volume weighted average price over ...

Treasury Group, Campbell Boag partnership establishes new boutique fund

Treasury Group in partnership with Campbell Boag has established a new boutique funds management business, Confluence Asset Management Ltd, which will focus on the management of smaller companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Under the terms ...

$A at 5-year high after RBA decision

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2003
The Australian dollar jumped even higher than its overnight rise, following news from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that it had decided to leave interest rates unchanged. The RBA left the official cash rate at 4.75 per cent today, despite some ...