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ASX in strong position for full year, but warns of unpredictability

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Strong growth in trading volumes in January and February means ASX Ltd is well positioned for a strong full year results, although the company warned of the unpredictability of the market. ASX today posted a half year net profit of $42.489 million ...

Jobs at SMEs strongest since GST

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2004
Employment in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) grew to their strongest levels in the January quarter since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax, a business index found. The Sensis Business Index for Small and Medium Enterprises showed that ...

FRM diversified Aus fund records 10.86% return

Financial Risk Management (FRM) has announced that its diversified Australia fund recorded a return of 10.86% for the 12 months to January 2004, with a standard deviation of 1.86%. Meanwhile, the FRM master fund recorded a return of 8.10% in US dollar ...

Credit card charges hit record $14.7 billion in December

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
Australia's Christmas credit card binge hit record levels in December as consumers ignored rising interest rates in favour of spending up big, figures released today show. Australians put an all-time record $14.68 billion on the plastic in December ...

APRA raised concerns with NAB before rogue trading scandal

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2004
The banking watchdog raised concerns about National Australia Bank's (NAB) risk management early last year, more than six months before the rogue trading scandal that cost the bank's two top jobs. NAB suspended four currency traders in January but foreign ...

ING Industrial Fund to buy Wonderland site

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2004
ING Industrial Fund yesterday announced it had contracted to purchase the Wonderland Sydney site in a joint venture with The PacLib Group for $52.5 million. ING Industrial Fund said $10 million was paid in exchange, with the balance payable on settlement ...

Merchandise imports down in January: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Merchandise imports dropped in January to $9.942 billion, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said imports fell 9.6% in the month, from $10.998 billion in December. Imports of food and live animals fell to $408 million ...

Summer crop up 32%: ABARE

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Australia's 2003/04 summer crop production would rise by 32% to 3.8 million tonnes on the back of heavy summer rain, Australia's chief rural commodities forecaster ABARE said today. ABARE's February crop report said summer crop production would be one ...

Market Wrap

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in gains from the previous session after disappointing jobless claims data and lackluster earnings news. No. 2 computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. dragged down the Dow Jones industrial average after saying ...

January sees rise in job ads: ANZ

Job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose by 2.3%, seasonally adjusted, in January, to an average of 20,783 per week according to the latest survey by the ANZ bank. The increase was the largest recorded in eight months, the bank said ...