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Macquarie Office Trust announces 41% increase in net profits for the year

... being awarded the number one ranking office trust in the listed property trust survey for 2003, from BDO Parkhill, for the third year running. Our objective of renewing major customers leases well before expiry together with an 81% retention rate has ...

Reserve Bank keeps interest rates on hold for 14th month in a row

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced today that the official cash rate would stay at 4.75 per cent, the third longest rates freeze (14 months in a row) since it began announcing rate movements in 1990. Tim Toohey, senior economist at JW ...

Australian economists expect RBA to leave rates unchanged in August

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2003
... most experts believe Ian Macfarlane and his board can afford to extend that streak. Economists said this timeframe - the third longest period of rates on hold since the RBA began announcing rate movements in January of 1990 - has been characterised by ...

Government calls for inquiry into housing affordability

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to inquire into the affordability and availability of housing for families and individuals wishing to purchase their first home, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced. "The Commonwealth Government ...

Rising job ads signal strengthening employment growth: ANZ

... number of weekly newspaper job advertisements rose by 1.4 per cent to 20,767 in July, the ANZ bank has announced. It was the third consecutive monthly increase, although the ANZ's series has yet to recover all the ground lost after a 12.1% drop in April. ...

ANZ arranges highest project finance for Australasia: Dealogic

... quarter, about 20 per cent of all finance arranged. Westpac was second with $320.4 million, whilst National Australia Bank was third with $241.7 million. Total project finance arranged during the quarter was $1.984 billion. -with AAP

Morning market wrap: US bonds continue sell-off

... Bonds were further undermined by the Conference Board which reported its leading index rose a further 0.1% in June, the third consecutive monthly increase. Amid the collapse in bonds and a rush of generally supportive earnings reports, US stocks also ...

POF advises unitholders of alternative takeover proposal

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2003
... takeover bid from Investa Property Group. In a letter to unitholders, Principal said its alternative proposal is set out in a Third Supplementary Target's Statement released to the Australian Stock Exchange yesterday. It said the Independent Directors ...

SG prices $220 million of super-senior notes

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2003
... oversubscribed, with particularly strong demand for the Super Senior tranche of notes. The RBS Trust 2003-1 transaction is the third public mortgaged-backed securities (MBS) issue of residential mortgage loans originated by the Rock Building Society ...

Morning market wrap: US shares sharply lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2003
... 439,000, while the level of continuing claims was also the highest since 1983. In London the FTSE 100 closed lower for the third day in a row, the index shedding 25.9 points to finish at 4,028.8. US Treasury yields also edged lower, although investors ...