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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 ...

Morning Market Wrap: Gains continue; US$ weakens

... indicator of trading for the day ahead, was eight points higher at 3291 on a volume of 577 contracts. In the news today, Westpac and the Melbourne Institute are due to release their October consumer sentiment survey. A number of companies will hold annual ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: AXS hits 16-month high

... 14 cents to $30.85, Commonwealth Bank of Australia dropped 12 cents to $28.21, ANZ was three cents lower at $18.19 and Westpac Banking Corp was three cents weaker at $16.50. Troubled life insurer and fund manager AMP, which revealed it will slash the ...

Westpac named Australia's number one company: RepuTex

Westpac has been named Australia's number one company, receiving the only AAA rating for corporate social responsibility in the RepuTex Social Responsibility Ratings (SR) announcement, at a National Press Club event in Canberra. "We are very much driven ...

Homeowners wait on Reserve Bank decision this morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2003
... fourth in a row. There is also concern in the agricultural sector that a rate rise might hit the post-drought recovery. The Westpac-National Farmers' Federation commodity price indicator dropped 4.6 per cent in September, almost totally due to the strengthening ...

Economists expect sedate employment growth for September

... period of the unemployment rate this low for decades and it will be a pretty good news story," he said. Geoff Kendrick, a Westpac economist, said that he also expected a rise of 10,000 in the workforce and a 6.1% unemployment rate. "We are looking at ...

Mirvac announces $258 million securitisation roadshow

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003
... 17. Mirvac said the issue would be in two tranches, $120 million of two-year notes and $138 million of five-year notes. Westpac Bank has been appointed lead manager and ANZ co-manager for the issue. Standard & Poor's has assigned preliminary ratings ...

Wollemi Trust issues inaugural portfolio credit linked notes

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003
... AAA rating to the A$50 million portfolio CLNs to be issued by Wollemi Trust, a special-purpose vehicle established by Westpac Banking Corp (WBC). The CLNs are debt securities whose payment of interest and principal are linked to the credit performance ...

Interest rate changes unlikely in tomorrow's RBA deliberation

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003
... for 16 consecutive months, last altering the cash rate in June 2002 when it raised it 25 basis points to 4.75 per cent. Westpac's global head of economics Bill Evans has said that no change in policy was almost a certainty. "Interestingly, in sharp contrast ...