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ANZ poised to buy Lloyds NZ unit

... (NBNZ) will make ANZ New Zealand's biggest lender with a 34 percent market share, leapfrogging it over Australian rivals Westpac Banking Corp and National Australia Bank Ltd. Lloyds TSB is selling NBNZ after more than 130 years of involvement. The UK ...

Afternoon market wrap: Stronger dollar hurts stocks, lifts bonds

... $3.55. ANZ was the best of the banks, dropping four cents to $18.30. National Australia Bank shed 26 cents to $31.18, Westpac was 16 cents poorer at $16.35 and the Commonwealth Bank was nine cents lower at $27.85. Meanwhile, the Australian bond market ...

ABS announces a 0.6% increase in the September quarter's CPI

There has been a 0.6 per cent increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the September quarter of 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The bureau also said that the CPI had increased 2.6% for the year to September. The highest ...

Annualised growth rate beats long term trend: Westpac/MI

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2003
... economic growth would continue to improve in the second half of 2003 and into the first half of 2004, according to the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Economic Activity. The annualised growth rate of the index, which normally indicates the ...

Westpac announces lowering of merchant credit card fees

Westpac has today announced that it will reduce credit card merchant service fees to its 85,000 merchant customers. "We are writing to our customers advising them of the new lower Merchant Service Fees applicable to them, the benefits of which will ...

Sealcorp chief quits

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2003
... Graham Bradley resigned. Earlier this year, Commonwealth Bank of Australia's head fund manager Chris Cuffe and one of Westpac Banking Corp's top investors, Andrew Brown, both left their posts. St George shares fell eight cents to $21.26 today.

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar breaks $US0.7000

... with yesterday's close of 0.6939/44. The dollar reached a high of $US0.7004 in New York overnight and a low of 0.6923. Westpac Bank currency strategist in New York Richard Franulovich said the Australian dollar had a sterling night. In New York the Australian ...

Afternoon market wrap: Australian shares close at new highs

... Bank rising 14 cents to $31.41 while the Commonwealth Bank added four cents to $28.01 and ANZ gained six cents to $18.26. Westpac dipped three cents to $16.53. Among other financial services stocks, AMP fell three cents to $6.65 after the competition ...

Strong business investment to peak by mid-2004: Westpac economist

... for housing and consumer goods. In an exclusive interview with the Financial Standard, Justin Smirk, senior economist at Westpac, said the data released yesterday (Monday) on the Producer Price Indexes (PPI) was a good symbol of Australia's strong domestic ...

Consumer sentiment rises to nine-year high: Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2003
... nine-year high in October with Australian households more confident about the economic outlook, a survey has found. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose by 1.5 per cent in October to 117.8, the highest level since July 1994 ...