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Macquarie senior staff resign to take up positions elsewhere

Macquarie Funds Management (MFM) has been caught with its Christmas stockings down, as four senior staff suddenly announced their resignations yesterday. Following the trend evident earlier this year when former Colonial First State employees working ...

Midday Market Wrap: Market lower at noon

... Stockbroking head dealer Jamie Spiteri said. The Australian dollar was weaker at noon as sellers began lining up for some pre-Christmas profit taking, an analysts said. At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7365/70 compared with yesterday's ...

Christmas spirit replaced by outrage as FPA cut 22 staff

... staff member told the Financial Standard this morning. "Especially considering that the cuts were made right before Christmas. It's a shocking time of year to be made redundant." The cuts encompass all divisions of the FPA and are concentrated on its ...

AMP unwraps WealthView in time for Christmas

AMP has launched its WealthView eWRAP for AMP Financial Planning, the last of four eWRAP accounts developed as a result of an agreement between AMP and ASGARD, the financial services giant has announced. AMP's suite of four eWRAPs now comprise WealthView ...

Signs of slowing in property-related sectors: index

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... interest rate rise clearly had an impact on spending patterns. The services sector was continuing its healthy run to Christmas but spending patterns were starting to change and this could be expected to further influence consumer spending in the months ...

Rate hike expected, more to come: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... be a key development as to whether or when they raise interest rates again. "So if housing continues to slow over the Christmas period, then it might put off another tightening at that stage. "But we think there will be a bit of resilience in the housing ...

Homeowners, government brace for rate rise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
Homeowners and the federal government are bracing for a disappointing Christmas present today when the Reserve Bank makes its last announcement for the year on interest rates. The bank is expected to increase interest rates by a quarter of a percentage ...

Morning Market Wrap: New six-year high for dollar

... per cent to 5.25 per cent. Any decision will be known at 0930 AEDT tomorrow. Analysts have tipped a rate hike before Christmas, delivering a widening interest rate differential between Australia and the United States. National Bank of Australia head ...

MLC receives 13 AFS licenses

MLC, the National Australia Bank Group's wealth management arm, has been given an early Christmas gift from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), with the regulator issuing 13 Australian Financial Services (AFS) licenses to enable ...

RBA to hike rates to 5.25 per cent next week: economists

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003
... AMP Henderson, UBS and Royal Bank of Canada all tipped another rate rise, taking the cash rate to 5.25 per cent before Christmas. An improving global economy, tightening labour market and today's credit growth figures all pointed to a December rate hike ...