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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0720 AEDT, the March share price index contract was trading down 19 points at 5,624. On the equities front today, Silver Mines ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0712 AEDT, the March share price index contract was trading down five points at 5620. On the equities front today, Woodside Petroleum ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The Australian share market was weaker at noon as sluggish commodity prices and a low trade volume took their toll. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 23.1 points to 5650.3, while the all ordinaries dropped 21.1 points to 5,629.3. On the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower, despite a positive lead from Wall Street, following a drop in commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0819 AEDT, the March share price index contract was trading down 13 points at 5,643. ...

Former Treasury head to be Westpac chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Westpac Banking Corporation's board of directors have appointed former Commonwealth Treasury head Ted Evans as chairman to replace Leon Davis, effective March 2007. In the interim Evans has been appointed deputy chairman to assist with a smooth transition. ...

Orix sells to Allco

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
Finance company Orix Australia has sold three of its five business divisions to Allco Finance Group. The business, equipment and commercial property finance operations will form part of the restructure of Allco Hybrid Investment Trust, which was announced ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
The latest Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey reveals a continuing level of pessimism among business executives with more than a third anticipating a fall in profits for the coming March quarter compared to that of a year earlier. Fuelling ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The returns to the house prices of the Australian capital cities has shown a weighted average return over the year to September of 9.5 per cent of which Western Australia property values increased a staggering 45.9 percent, Darwin a healthy 17.3 and ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The ANZ job series released yesterday showed the number of major newspaper and internet job ads rose by 5.8 per cent in October to an average of more than 195,000 per week, 25.3 per cent higher a year ago. The earlier September increase of 0.3 per cent ...