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APEC launches five-day Investment Mart

... the Thai Minister for Industry. "The APEC Investment Mart 2003 will encompass a wide range of exhibitions, trade fairs, country presentations, seminars and other activities."

Australia secures fourth place on global managed fund ranking

... increased by 7.1%, whereas assets of mutual funds in the United States rose by 8.8%. Stock price indexes rose in almost every country in the second quarter, with most indexes showing double-digit gains. These increases contrasted with widespread weakness ...

Labor marks Anti-Poverty Week with new proposals

... Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty for any Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country, with 2.4 million Australians now living below the poverty line, including one million working Australians. The party said ...

Morning Market Wrap: International markets gain; Dollar weaker

... of 0.6941/46. The local currency rose to a high of $US0.6959 in overnight trade, as buying momentum continued after the country's unemployment rate registered a 13-year low for the second consecutive month. But a stronger United States dollar pushed ...

Macquarie spends $40 million in South Korea

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... in Daegu-Busan Expressway Co, developer of the 82-kilometre expressway linking the cities Daegu and Busan. Daegu is the country's third largest city, with 2.5 million people, and Busan is its second biggest, with a population of four million. Macquarie ...

ARF weighs in with ASX 100 shares investment plan

... 500,000 members and over $4.5 billion in funds under management, the ARF is one of the biggest superannuation funds in the country. The Plan will be available from December 2003 and will allow eligible members to invest in any one or combination of shares ...

Investors stick to property, despite lure of rising sharemarkets: ING

... sharemarket's offer when they cover." The report is based on a representative survey of 1,200 households from all over the country.

ANZ Bank gets thumbs down from NZ customers again

... ANZ service good or very good compared with 88 per cent of people who used the National Bank, which was the best of the country's top five banks. But the big banks were all outclassed again by the provincial-based Taranaki Savings Bank (TSB), which won ...

IGA joins discount petrol bandwagon

... program will be trialled by 189 IGA outlets in Queensland and northern NSW before being rolled out gradually across the country. Andrew Reitzer, chief executive of IGA owner Metcash Trading Ltd, will release details of the offer at a media briefing in ...

AACo injunction to face Federal Court today

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2003
... action. AACo lodged the injunction late yesterday afternoon, after the failed in its $541 million bid to purchase the country's largest beef holdings. Stanbroke was sold last week for $490 million to Nebo Holdings, a consortium involving Stanbroke director ...