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Australians abandon property investment plans

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2004
More than 100,000 Australians have abandoned plans to invest in property this year, according to research by Wizard Home Loans. The non-bank lender said research it commissioned found the number of Australians who planned to invest over the next 12 ...

December quarter final PPI up 0.1%

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2004
Australia's producer price index (PPI) at the final stage of production rose 0.1% in the December quarter for an annual rise of 1%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. This compares with a rise of 0.5% in the September quarter. In the quarter ...

Housing finance falls 3.9% in November

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2004
New figures today pointed to a further cooling in the housing market, with a drop in owner-occupied housing finance in November. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the total housing finance commitments in November were down 3.%, seasonally adjusted ...

EIB to sell $500 million kangaroo bonds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2004
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will today sell $500 million of kangaroo bonds due September 2009. The bonds will be sold at between 25 and 26 basis points more than the Commonwealth Government bond of similar maturity, joint lead managers Deutsche ...

S&P assigns first AAA rating to Australian equity fund

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2004
Standard & Poor's announced today that it has assigned its first AAA rating to an Australian equity fund, assigning the top rating to the CFS FirstChoice Investments - 452 Australian Share Fund. The fund is offered through an alliance between Colonial ...

Convicted director brought before Court on new charges

A former Melbourne director has been charged in the Melbourne Magistrates Court with two counts of managing a corporation whilst disqualified, following an ASIC investigation. ASIC alleges that between September 2001 and January 2003, Charles Northam ...

Share trading climbs to record $56 billion in October: ASX

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2004
Share trading on the Australian stock market reached a record monthly total of $56 billion in October 2003, up from the previous record in September with $54 billion traded according to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). October was also the second ...

GDP up 1.4 percent in December quarter

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2004
Australia's economy was gaining pace at the start of the year as rising exports combined with resilient domestic demand to lift growth in the final quarter of 2003, economists said. The AAP economic indicator for January showed gross domestic product ...

ASIC releases SRI guidelines to facilitate product disclosure

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released guidelines for the inclusion of information relating to labour standards, and environmental and ethical factors in the product disclosure statements (PDSs) of investment products. ...

Morning Market Wrap: $A rises to fresh six-year high overnight

The Australian dollar rose to a fresh six-year high above 74.50 US cents overnight as traders anticipated key US economic data would show inflation remained weak. At 0700 AEDT the local unit was trading at $US0.7432/37 compared with yesterday's close ...