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US Federal Reserve holds key short-term rate at 1%

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2004
... at a 45-year low today. Wrapping up a two-day meeting - the first regularly scheduled session of the year - Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues left the federal funds rate unchanged at 1%. The funds rate, the interest that banks charge each ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2004
... and a half year high overnight, as the United States dollar gained strength from comments made by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7773/78 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7786/91. The ...

Tower strengthens board with new director appointment

Financial services group Tower has appointed William Falconer to its board of directors, following the retirement of Alan Eyes. New Zealand based Falconer is currently the chairman of five companies, including Hellaby Holdings, Kiwifruit International ...

Bridges head to depart early 2004

... completes his commitment made to shareholders at the 2003 Annual Meeting, to restructure and revitalise the Tower board. Alan Eyes, who was elected to the Tower board in 1999, will retire on 31 December. Mr Falconer\'s appointment is effective from that ...

Property seminar spruiker Kaye companies placed in receivership

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2003
... training programs. At the time, court-ordered mediation resulted in Mr Kaye, Novasource Consulting Pty Ltd and consultant Alan Meagher agreeing to change the way they ran seminars which had promised to teach Australians how to become real estate millionaires. ...

Jail, rather than fines, needed for corporate crime, says lawyer

... others - fines and loss of reputation are not sanction enough." He said the jailing of former West Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond in the wake of the collapse of his $9 billion business empire was a "one-off". "Alan Bond was one of the few business ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar weaker after US jobless claims plunge

... boost to the US dollar from the employment report card was then enhanced by positive comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan who said the labour market appeared to have stabilised. This pushed the Australian dollar further south as the ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, dollar end higher

... news out of the United States tonight on weekly jobless claims as well as an upbeat speech from US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.

Agribusiness conditions improve marginally for the September quarter: NAB survey

... relatively weak level, the latest National Australia Bank (NAB) quarterly agribusiness survey has revealed. According to Alan Oster, chief economist at NAB, agribusiness conditions remain weak relative to the rest of the non-farm business sector. The ...

Economy strong; rates will rise: NAB survey

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2003
... conditions, forward orders and capex spending have all continued to accelerate through the September quarter. NAB chief economist Alan Oster said the bank remained comfortable with its GDP forecasts of 2.5 per cent growth for 2003, mainly reflecting ...