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Afternoon market wrap: Australian stocks close lower

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2003
... also sank 24 cents to $11.75 and Fairfax gave up 10 cents to $3.50. However, Southern Cross Broadcasting bucked the trend to leap 49 cents to $11.05 after forecasting strong earnings growth for the current half year. Among other blue chips on the slide ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, dollar end higher

... April 25, 2003. Yesterday the bank flagged another two years of double-digit earnings growth, after reporting a 64 per cent leap in net profit in 2002/03. News Corp rose 22 cents or 1.73 per cent to $12.97 after it doubled its net profit for the first ...

Afternoon market report: Trade thins as Melbourne Cup takes precedence

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2003
... to 57.0, exceeding prior expectations of an index of 56.0. The index's move from 53.7 points in September was the largest leap by the survey since January 2000. The Australian dollar was knocked from its perch at $US0.7092 when the ISM was released ...

Midday market report: Shares surge higher on US data

The Australian stock market opened higher today following a surge by stocks on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 16.6 points higher at 3273.1 in early trade while the all ordinaries index had leapt 20.0 points to 3273.1. Overnight ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar sinks below $US0.7000

... to 57.0, exceeding prior expectations of an index of 56.0. The index's move from 53.7 points in September was the largest leap by the survey since January 2000. The Australian dollar was knocked from its perch at $US0.7092 when the ISM was released ...

ANZ poised to buy Lloyds NZ unit

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group is poised to announce a deal to buy Lloyds TSB Group Plc's New Zealand banking operations for around 2.34 billion pounds ($3.96 billion), a source close to the situation said on Thursday. ANZ is hoping to announce ...

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 ...

Worrying increase in Australian household debt: ALP

... Insolvency and Trustee Services Australia (ITSA) showed that while bankruptcies are down slightly, there has been a worrying leap in debt agreement by 35% for the financial year. Debt agreements are an alternative to bankruptcy that more and more ordinary ...

Principal Office Fund leaps to six-year high

Principal Office Fund units have jumped to a six-year high, following Investa Property Group's purchase of an 8.4 per cent "strategic" stake in the trust. Principal units rallied 22 cents or 16% to $1.62, eclipsing the $1.58 paid by Investa in an overnight ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries falls, in tandem with Asia

Paul Cully The All Ordinaries index slipped lower today, resisting the upward trend of US and UK shares at the end of last week, as events over the weekend suggested that war with Iraq was now approaching fast. The prospect of conflict appeared to rattle ...