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Afternoon market wrap: Shares, dollar end higher

The Australian share market made it into positive territory just before the close of trading today, despite being weighed down by the banking sector for most of the session. Gains by market heavyweight News Corp and resource stocks managed to reverse ...

ANZ job ads up 1.4%

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2003
Australian newspaper job advertisements rose for the sixth consecutive month in October, the longest stretch of gains in four years, a survey found. ANZ job ads rose 1.4 per cent, continuing the upward trend since May and indicating further employment ...

Trade gap widens in September

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2003
Australia's trade gap widened in September as a rebound in imports outpaced a recovery in exports. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the trade deficit increased to $2.28 billion in September, from a revised $1.97 billion shortfall in August ...

No rate increases in near future: banks

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2003
In what should come as a relief to Australians with home loans, the head of the St George Bank and a senior executive from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia both said yesterday they did not expect official interest rates to rise in the near future. ...

Macquarie reaps benefit of increased tolls on highways

The latest toll hikes on Sydney's most expensive motorway is paying rich dividends to its owner Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG). The MIG disclosed today that toll-paying traffic on the Eastern Distributor, also called the M1, grew 5.3 per cent ...

Wattle Group saga claims yet another former adviser

A former Adelaide investment adviser and principal of Golconda Resources, was today sentenced in the District Court in Adelaide on 62 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Ian William Snook was sentenced to ...

Trade balance to remain in wide deficit in Aug: economists

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
Australia's trade deficit is expected to have remained wide in August as rising exports levels were nullified by rising imports. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will report the balance on goods and services (BOGS) for August on Monday. Market forecasts ...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

Australia's current unemployment rate, announced at a 13-year low 5.8 per cent yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), is far lower than the standardised unemployment rate of 7.2% (July 2003) for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...

Piet Walters appears on further ASIC charges

Piet Cornelius Walters has appeared before the Cairns Magistrates Court on a further 12 charges brought forward by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The new charges allege that Mr Walters engaged in dishonest conduct in relation ...

ACCC reject proposed air alliance, airlines to appeal

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today denied approval for a proposed alliance between Qantas Airways Ltd and Air New Zealand Ltd. "The proposed alliance would be highly anti-competitive and offer little benefit to the Australian ...