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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 ...

Australian Agricultural Co reports net loss

Australian Agricultural Co Ltd today booked a net loss for the first half of the current financial year, with costs associated with the drought and with an acquisition attempt weighing on its earnings. AACo said its full year earnings guidance remains ...

ANZ newspaper job ads rise 2.3% in Jan

Australian newspaper job advertisements rose 2.3 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in January to 20,783 a week - its sharpest increase in eight months. The January figures follows a revised 6.9 per cent fall in December and 0.8 per cent slip in November ...

Motor vehicle sales continue record run

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2004
The Australian car industry's record sales run continued in January with manufacturers and importers selling more vehicles than ever before. The best-ever January performance also came after a record 909,881 vehicles were sold in 2003. The Federal Chamber ...

Inflation rises 0.4% in January: report

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
Australian prices for consumers goods and services rose 0.4% in January, a report said. The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute Experimental Monthly Inflation Gauge said the firmer figure followed a flat result in December, to be 2.3% higher than a year ...

Regional recovery under way: report

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2004
... regions. According to the Westpac Regional Economic Report Summer 2004, the regional consumer sentiment index rose to 167 in January - close to a nine and half year high - and almost back to the level reached prior to the lift in interest rates by the ...