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Telstra announces off market share buy back

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
Telstra Corp Ltd today said it would buy back between $800 million and $1 billion of its own shares in an off market tender process. Telstra, which had flagged the possibility of a share buyback when it announced its full year results recently, said ...

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 ...

Security technology firm Biometrics opens IPO

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
Security technology firm Biometrics Ltd has opened an initial public offering today to raise funds to develop sophisticated systems it said would have prevent recent Australian security breakdowns. Perth-based Biometrics is seeking to raise $2.63 million ...

ACCC initiates legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
The competition watchdog said today it had started legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar leader Henry Kaye and the National Investment Institute Ltd (NII). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged Mr Kaye and ...

NAB intends to buy back 25 million shares

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
National Australia Bank Ltd said today it intended to buy back up about 25.5 million ordinary shares. The bank said its current intention is to continue to seek to buyback a number of ordinary shares approximating the number of ordinary shares issued ...

Fosters announces broader capital management

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
Global beverages firm Foster's Group Ltd said today it would provide details on its broader capital management intentions after determining the net proceeds of the spin-off its Australian Hospitality (ALH) and Leisure pubs and gaming business. Earlier ...

Changes in weighting to Trade Weighted Index

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
The Reserve Bank of Australia has revised the weights for currencies included in the trade weighted index (TWI) of the Australian dollar. This reflects changes in the composition of Australia's merchandise trade in 2002/03. The new weights take effect ...

Foster's reports $239 million in bonds to be converted into shares

Global beverages firm Foster's Group Ltd said today that it had so far received notice that $US162 ($A239) million in exchangeable bonds on issue would be converted to 56.82 million ordinary Foster's Group shares. The bonds comprise 40.47 per cent of ...

NZCC delays Qantas-Air New Zealand decision to October 24

The New Zealand Commerce Commission has delayed the release of its determination on the proposed Air New Zealand-Qantas alliance by up to four weeks. "We are working on our final economic analysis and calculations," said Geoff Thorn, acting general ...

Westfield veteran to step down from executive duties

The Westfield Group have announced that Stephen Johns, executive director of capital markets for 33 years with the company had decided to step down from full-time executive duties and will assume a non-executive role from 1 October 2003. "Whilst this ...