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PBL announces takeover offer for Burswood Casino

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2004
Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) last night made a takeover move on Burswood Ltd, seven months after becoming the largest stakeholder in the operator of Perth's casino and hotel complex. PBL subsidiary PBL (WA), currently holds 15.6 ...

TXU to sell Australian energy operations, pipeline unit for $3.41 billion

TXU Corp. has agreed to sell a gas pipeline unit and its Australian energy operations for US$2.5 billion ($3.41 billion) in a bid to slash debt and return to its roots as a Texas power company, it said on Monday. The move, which sent TXU shares up 13 ...

IMF says world economic outlook rosy

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2004
... and Asia. In good news for Australian exports, the global economy was expected to grow 4.6% this year - from 4% in September - and 4.4% next year. The US economy was tipped to grow 4.6% this year and 3.9% in 2005 while China, Australia's fastest-growing ...

Nine top AMP executives pocket combined $18 million pay in 2003

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2004
AMP's top nine executives pocketed a combined $18 million in 2003, a year in which the wealth management company presented shareholders with a massive net loss of $5.5 billion. According to AMP's annual report, issued today, chief executive Andrew Mohl ...

Challenger sells $71 million forestry assets to Great Southern

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group today announced it had entered into an arrangement with Great Southern Plantations (GSP) for the rights and obligations to acquire approximately 84,000 hectares of forestry assets. Under the terms of the arrangement ...

Home loan affordability lowest in over eight years

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
Home loan affordability across Australia was at its lowest in more than eight years at the end of 2003, making it even more difficult for first home buyers to enter the property market. During the December quarter of 2003, home loan affordability in ...

Rentenbank launches A$400 million June 2011 bond issue

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Germany's agency for agriculture, has today launched a $A400 million June 2011 bond issue into the Kangaroo market. The deal is expected to be priced at an approximate re-offer spread to the June 2011 Australian Commonwealth ...

Adelaide Bank launches $800 million local securitisation program

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2004
Adelaide Bank has followed up from last year's entry into the corporate bond market with another $800 million issue yesterday. The bank announced the launch of its eighth domestic issue under its TORRENS residential mortgage lending securitisation program. ...

House prices after surge 6% in Q4

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
Australian house prices skyrocketed in the final three months of 2003. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released yesterday showed a house price index jumped 6% in the December quarter - the largest quarterly rise in almost 15 years. This compared ...

Annual economic growth lifts to 4%: ABS

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2004
Economic growth picked up at the end of last year, new figures showed today, with annual growth lifting to 4% in the year to December. The latest national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the economy expanded by 1.4% in ...