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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2004
The Australian market should benefit from a positive lead from the US and local gold producers should see renewed interest after bullion soared past the $US400 mark overnight. US stocks ended slightly higher overnight as investors nibbled at technology ...

TCV says 2004/04 funding requirement will be $1.7 billion

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV), the state\'s central financing authority, today said its funding requirement for the year ending June 30, 2005, would be $A1.7 billion. TCV said the requirement comprised refinancing of $1.4 billion of maturing ...

BT, Invesco rank highest; Mercer

BT Financial Group and Invesco funds have closed the financial year at the top of the Mercer pooled fund survey for 2003/2004. According to the June edition of Mercer Investment Consulting's pooled fund survey released on Tuesday, average superannuation ...

Paying off debt still top priority for households

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
Paying off debts remains the most popular use of new savings for Australian households, followed closely by investing in real estate, a new investment survey revealed on Tuesday. The latest ING Melbourne Institute Household Savings & Investment Report ...

Intersuisse says biotechs performing best since 2000

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
Australian biotechnology stocks were performing at their best since the technology boom of 2000, brokerage Intersuisse said today. Intersuisse said share prices for biotech companies had risen 24% to the year to June 2004, outperforming the All Ordinaries ...

September quarter expectations remain soft, survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
Sales and profit expectations fell for the September quarter providing further evidence that the new financial year will be soft, a survey has revealed. The D&B national business expectations survey has reported that despite a small rise across all ...

Retail spending to soften over course of year - Costello

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
Treasurer Peter Costello today predicted that retail spending would soften over the course of the financial year as consumption falls away. Handouts in the Budget, particularly a $600 payment per child for around two million families, is thought to ...

Family allowance boosts Australian retail sales in June

The federal government\'s family allowance benefit helped lift Australian retail sales to an uncharacteristically high level in June, a monthly index has revealed. The Cashcard Retail Activity Index for June, based on data from electronic card transactions ...

Invesco wholesale diversified scores highly

Invesco released performance data for its wholesale diversified growth fund on Friday, revealing outperformance against the benchmark across all investment sectors. During the year to June 2004, the Invesco wholesale diversified growth fund returned ...

Bumper year for ASX

The Australian Stock Exchange released its financial year-end statistics yesterday, recording an annual 16.8% increase in the value of the benchmark S&P/ASX-200 and a 17.7% increase in the smaller All Ordinaries index. The sharemarket posted a new record ...