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Morning Market Wrap: Dollar weaker on US unit comeback

The Australian dollar was weaker at the open following an overnight US dollar comeback triggered by an improved US economic outlook. At 0700 AEDT the local unit was trading at $US0.7394/99 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7397/02. It reached a high ...

Another Wattle administrator convicted after ASIC investigation

Graeme Charles Coote, a former director of Brisbane-based The Fund Administrators Pty Ltd (TFA), has been sentenced in the Brisbane District Court in relation to charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Coote ...

Home lending falls for first time in almost 12 months: ABS

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2003
Home loan approvals fell in October for the first time in almost a year, new figures showed today, driven by a drop in people buying established homes. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said lending increased for building and buying new ...

Business conditions strong, but confidence falls: survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2003
Business conditions continue to strengthen markedly to near record levels but expectations of more rate rises have led to a fall in confidence, a new survey has found. NAB's Monthly Business Survey, released today, showed business conditions improved ...

Increase in newspaper and internet job advertisements: ANZ

The latest ANZ job advertisement series, for November, reveals an increase in major metropolitan newspaper job advertisements by 0.1 per cent to an average of 22,148 per week (the highest level since November last year) and internet job advertisements ...

Growth funds post negative returns in November: Mercer

The median growth fund delivered a return of -0.7 per cent in November, according to the latest survey of pooled funds by Mercer Investment Consulting. The negative return followed a 2.02% fall in the S&P/ASX 300 during the month and what Mercer described ...

ASIC begins investigation into NRMA complaints

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun enquiring into a number of complaints made in relation to the recent half-board election and AGM of the National Roads and Motorists' Association Ltd (NRMA). ASIC explained it established ...

Midday Market Wrap: Weak financial sector puts pressure on local bourse

The Australian share market was marginally higher at noon as a weaker financial sector continued to put pressure on the local bourse. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 2.9 points at 3232.7 while the all ordinaries index gained 2.2 ...

Australian Unity reveals rapid growth in funds under management

Less than a month after appointing former Perpetual Trustees executive Rohan Mead as group managing director designate, Australian Unity has confirmed a strong surge of inflows in the first half of the financial year. According to Australian Unity Funds ...

Rate hike expected, more to come: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
Australia's central bank is expected to increase interest rates again in February, after a strengthening global and domestic economy sparked an 0.25 percentage point hike today, according to economists. They said the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) ...