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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 ...

Business indicators show firm end to 2003, but lowers GDP forecast

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
While Australian business indicators for the December quarter pointed to a robust finish for the economy in 2003 economists have sharply revised down their expectations for the December quarter GDP outcome. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported ...

Westpac comfortable with market expectations

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2004
Westpac Banking Corp said today that it was comfortable with market expectations for the 2004 financial year as it met with institutional investors. At the same time the bank said that cash earnings for all business units in the year to date are ahead ...

Capital expenditure in line with strong Q4 growth

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2004
A rise in the amount businesses spent on capital equipment in the December quarter bodes well for strong economic growth but as spending intentions soften growth will slow, economists said. Real private capital expenditure rose 2% in volume terms, seasonally ...

RBA to look to wages data for inflation outlook

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Figures out today will give the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) an indication if it needs to tackle potential wages inflation when it meets on interest rates next month. Earlier this month the RBA warned that the strength of the labour market may boost ...

Sydney median house price hits $500,000 in December: REI

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2004
The median price of a house in Sydney reached $500,000 in the December quarter 2003, according to figures released today by the Real Estate Institute (REI) of New South Wales. Prices in the state's capital increased 6.4% from the September quarter.

Margin lending for direct share investment rises: St George

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2004
Margin lending for direct investment in the share market picked up in the December quarter, according to St George Bank head of margin lending, Andrew Black. Black said Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) data showed there had been a move towards borrowing ...