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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2004
The Australian stock market is expected to open slightly firmer as strong performances from offshore equity markets set the tone despite the US markets enjoying a long weekend. However, some Australian stocks will be heading ex-dividend today, which ...

Govt's preferred fee disclosure model due this week

Sources have revealed to the Financial Standard, the Government's soon-to-be released preferred fee disclosure model will separate the treatment of product fees from advice fees. Industry sources have revealed that the government, through Treasury ...

Abacus Property Group to acquire to Liverpool Plaza

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2004
Abacus Property Group (ABP) today announced that the Abacus Trust will acquire Liverpool Plaza Shopping Centre in Sydney for $29.8 million. Income from the property is expected to be about $2.7 million per annum with completion of the sale scheduled ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2004
The Australian share market should get a boost from Wall St and open higher, continuing a winning streak that ran through most of last week. Higher base metals and precious metals prices at the weekend should also propel resource stocks, which ended ...

ACCC tells Boral to abandon Adelaide Brighton takeover

The consumer watchdog on Wednesday told building company Boral to abandon plans to take over cement and lime producer Adelaide Brighton or face legal action. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said its investigation found the ...

Biota to sue GlaxoSmithKline over Relenza flu drug

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
Biotech Biota Holdings is suing global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, alleging that GSK failed to support and promote Biota's flu drug, Relenza. Biota said it had issued a writ in the Victorian Supreme Court. Biota, which licensed Relenza to ...

Structural change strengthens regional bank credit ratings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
Structural change in the risk profile of Australia's regional banks since the 1990s has strengthened their credit ratings, a new report has shown. Standard & Poor's (S&P) industry report card on regional banks in Australia found this progressive structural ...

Business expectations stay flat for quarter ahead: survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2004
Business expectations remain flat for the quarter ahead, as the outlook for profits and sales stay at 12 month lows, a new survey has revealed. The latest Dun & Bradstreet National Business Expectations Survey showed executives' expectations for the ...

Farms still struggling to turn a profit: ABARE

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
The business of farming just keeps getting harder with almost a quarter of all primary producers tipped to make a loss this financial year. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), at its annual Outlook conference, today ...

Summer crop up 32%: ABARE

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Australia's 2003/04 summer crop production would rise by 32% to 3.8 million tonnes on the back of heavy summer rain, Australia's chief rural commodities forecaster ABARE said today. ABARE's February crop report said summer crop production would be one ...