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S&P predicts investment grade status for NBFI sector

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2003
Standard & Poor's has said the financially strongest companies in the Australian non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sector could potentially achieve investment grade status. However the sector remains dominated by a large number of non-investment-grade ...

Interstar launches MBS issue

Interstar Securities (Australia) Pty Ltd has launched the ninth AUD issue under its Interstar Millennium Trust Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) programme, Macquarie Bank Ltd announced today. Macquarie is arranger and lead manager for the issue, while ...

Domestic economic outlook improving: Costello

The outlook for Australia's economy was improving after a disappointing June quarter, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said today. Official figures last week showed the economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the June quarter, with exports savaged by the ...

Midday market wrap: Japanese, domestic stocks edge down to noon

Japanese shares erased early gains and edged down by midday on Friday as profit-taking took a toll on big banks and some tech issues such as NEC Corp after the key Nikkei average hit 14-month highs earlier this week. The Nikkei ended the morning session ...

Australian service industries pick up pace of activity: survey

Australian service industries have picked up the pace of activity, according to an inaugural survey published by the first Australian Industry Group - Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI), which had risen 0.5 points to 55.5 ...

Domestic wines sales rise 5.1% for the year: ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced that the quantity of domestic wine sales had increased 5.1 per cent for the year, and 0.8% from June to July to 34.6 million litres. The volume of white table wine sales was 17.47 million litres ...

Morningstar awards three stars to Perpetual and Macquarie international equities

Morningstar has given a three star rating for Perpetual Investment Management's international equities management citing that the company's competitive advantage lies in its depth of 'on the ground' research analysts. The ratings house has said that ...

Forecast of weakened non-farm economic growth in the near future: economist

The latest data released on the Australian and world economy reveal that the local economy has slowed with a weakened forecast of growth in the non-farm economy of between 2.5 per cent and 3% for the year. Whilst the global economy is expected to experience ...

Adelaide Bank to launch $600 million domestic securitisation program

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2003
Adelaide Bank Ltd said today it is launching a $600 million domestic securitisation program to assist in funding its continuing strong asset growth. The bank said the launch of its seventh domestic issue, under its Torrens residential mortgage lending ...

GDP rises 0.1% from March to June quarter: ABS

The Australian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded a 0.1 per cent increase from the March quarter to the June quarter this year, and a 2% increase for the year to June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) disclosed today in the release of their ...