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Morning Market Wrap: International markets gain; Dollar weaker

The Australian share market is likely to move higher following gains in international markets overnight. By 0738 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange the December share price index contract, a key indicator of trading for the day ahead, was six points ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar up after employment announcements

The Australian dollar shot back towards near six year highs in response to a rise in the nation's employment level in September. The domestic unit bounced from $US0.6902 prior to the 1130 AEST announcement of the data to $US0.6927 at 1139 AEST, fractionally ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits six year high

The Australian dollar charged above $US0.6900 overnight to hit its highest level in nearly six years as the United States dollar crumbled across the board. The local unit hit $US0.6920 in New York - its highest level since January of 1998. At 0700 the ...

S&P affirms A-minus rating on Medicare Insurance

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2003
Standard & Poor's said today that it affirmed its A-minus counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Medical Insurance Society Ltd (MIS). The outlook is stable. The ratings on MIS reflect its position as a core operating subsidiary ...

Midday Market Wrap: Wall Street encourages Australian shares; dollar strong

The Australian share market, led by the banks, media and miners, continued to move higher to noon, encouraged by the solid rise on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index improved 27.8 points to 3187.0 while the all ordinaries added 27.6 ...

Afternoon market wrap: $A rockets to five-and-a-half year high

The Australian dollar rocketed to its highest level in five-and-a-half years today and looks set to fly past 70 US cents this year. Its faster than expected rise has some currency experts now raising their expectations about how high the local dollar ...

Company taxes feed $7.5 billion budget surplus: Costello

Australia's 2002/03 Budget surplus of $7.5 billion is largely due to better than expected company taxes, according to Treasurer Peter Costello. Australia's 2002/03 Budget produced a final surplus of $7.5 billion, compared to the $3.9 billion surplus ...

New appointment at Advance

Advance Funds Management has appointed Sue Mieog to the position of head of product. Ms Mieog was previously manager - employer super at ING and was also a senior product manager at BT for several years. Ms Mieog said she was committed to taking Advance ...

Morningstar awards five stars to AXA Bernstein's value-style investment

Morningstar has awarded five stars to AXA's Sanford and Bernstein value-style international equities investment management process, citing clear articulation, extensive pre-investment debate and screening and its centralised decision-making group. Bernstein ...

Morning market wrap: US shares weather bombings

Major US share market indexes rose overnight, although two separate bombings in the Middle East and a disappointing earnings report after the market from Hewlett-Packard have raised the spectre of renewed risk aversion. Shares in HP fell by over 10% ...