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Housing market slowdown arrives "with a vengeance": Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2004
... Australia and abroad. "The long-awaited slowdown in housing has finally arrived, and with a vengeance," Dr Morgan told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch. "We have seen a 20% decline in dwelling finance approvals over the last quarter, and we're getting ...

BAD tax to be scrapped

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2004
State and territory governments today agreed to shoot down the Bank Accounts Debit (BAD) tax more than four years after Treasurer Peter Costello put the tax in his sights. The meeting of federal state and territory treasurers agreed the BAD tax would ...

Single economic market for Australia and New Zealand getting closer

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... Prime ministers John Howard and Helen Clark said both countries were keen to see a single economic market crossing the Tasman, going beyond the Closer Economic Relations (CER) trade agreement that already links the two nations. And they also united in ...

Promina announce $200-$300 million capital raising for growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2004
Trans-Tasman insurer Promina Group has revealed plans to raise $250-$300 million for future growth after booking a full year net profit that topped its own prospectus forecast by more than $100 million. Promina managing director and CEO Michael Wilkins ...

January sees rise in job ads: ANZ

Job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose by 2.3%, seasonally adjusted, in January, to an average of 20,783 per week according to the latest survey by the ANZ bank. The increase was the largest recorded in eight months, the bank said ...

ANZ newspaper job ads rise 2.3% in Jan

Australian newspaper job advertisements rose 2.3 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in January to 20,783 a week - its sharpest increase in eight months. The January figures follows a revised 6.9 per cent fall in December and 0.8 per cent slip in November ...

Australia, New Zealand moving toward single economic market

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
... a meeting with New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen, said there had been significant progress made towards trans Tasman business integration. The two ministers, speaking to reporters last week said they were building on the Closer Economic Relations ...

Bridges chief to step down next month

... respected by both our group and also by the financial services market," he said. As part of a major restructuring, the trans-Tasman financial services group has decided to focus on core insurance and wealth management operations.

Midday Market Wrap: Banking sector boosts market

... dollar raised the bar further in trade today after New Zealand's central bank chose not to join its counterpart across the Tasman in hiking interest rates - further underlining Australia's widening yield advantage. At 1200 AEDT the local unit was trading ...

ANZ completes acquisition of National Bank of New Zealand

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2003
... said. ANZ catapulted to the top of the New Zealand banking sector with the $4.92 billion acquisition of NBNZ. The trans-Tasman deal will be partly funded through a $3.6 billion renounceable rights issue - issued at a discounted price of $13.00 per share ...