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NZ interest rates rise

... Zealand now sits at 6.5 per cent after Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) again raised interest rates by 25 basis points, the sixth such increase since January 2004. RBNZ Director Dr Allen Bollard cited the strength in New Zealand's economy and inflationary ...

Suncorp MD collects $3.29m

... the Queensland banking and insurance group after presiding over a record annual profit. Mulcahy, lured to the country's sixth-largest bank from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in January 2003, received a base salary of $1.1 million for the 12 months ...

Aust interest rates on hold in June - RBA

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2004
... have been spared higher mortgage repayments after the Reserve Bank of Australia today left interest rates on hold for the sixth month in a row. In a widely-expected move, the central bank announced the official cash rate would remain at 5.25% in June. ...

Aust economic growth slows to just 0.2% in March qtr - ABS

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2004
... figures showed today, the worst result in more than a year. The economy expanded by just 0.2% in the March quarter - about one-sixth of the revised 1.3% growth recorded in the previous quarter, and substantially below economists' expectations. The slowing ...

Aust property investment recovers in March - ABS

... In contrast, the value of new loans to owner-occupiers fell 0.1% after a 1.2% slump in the number of new mortgages, the sixth fall in a row. AAP

CBA launches sixth global mortgage securitisation

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
The Commonwealth Bank has launched its sixth global issuance of A$3.4 billion mortgaged backed securities through Medallion Trust; its Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) programme. The assets comprise fixed and variable rate loans originated from the ...

Consumer confidence at decade-high: index

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2004
... Asia and Australia for the past 11 years, and is the longest running survey of its kind in Asia Pacific. Australia ranked sixth out of 13 countries across the region. In particular, the survey showed Australians have rarely been as optimistic as they ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2004
The Australian dollar opened lower for a sixth consecutive day as a public holiday in the United States saw that nation's dollar consolidate gains made last week. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7547/52 compared with yesterday's ...

Merrill Lynch survey reveals upbeat global sentiment on equities

... positioned for cyclical recovery in 2004. While, two thirds of the managers surveyed expect single-digit equity returns, one sixth are expecting double-digit performance over the coming 12 months. Two thirds of the total also expect bond yields to be ...

OECD leading indicator data reveals moderate to strong recovery ahead

... seventh consecutive month. The Euro area's CLI rose by one point in October and its six-month rate of change was up for the sixth consecutive month, following 11 straight months of declines. In October, the CLI for Japan was unchanged and its six-month ...