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Lend Lease in $15 million management buy-out of Texas-based HFF

Lend Lease Corporation has today announced that it had completed an agreement for a management buy out of the Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) business for a price of $15.15 million. HFF is a commercial real estate capital intermediary company that was ...

Australia has a highly mobile population: ABS survey reveals

Australia has a remarkably mobile population, with 42 per cent - or 6.8 million people - changing their place of residence between the years 1996 to 2001, the 14th national ABS Census of Population and Housing has revealed. The census results, released ...

Morning market wrap: Data spurs strong gains in US stocks

... stronger manufacturing activity in the state of New York. The Empire State manufacturing survey jumped 16.0 points to 26.8 in June - the highest level in the two-year history of the series - and helped investors shrug off concerns following news last ...

NAB Looking For Rate Cuts

The chorus backing local interest rate cuts continues to grow louder, with the National Australia Bank on Friday saying it expects the Reserve Bank to move following each of its next two board meetings. In its latest review of interest rate forecasts ...

Morning market wrap: US Stocks Slump Friday As Confidence Wanes

US stocks closed sharply lower Friday, following a survey showing consumer confidence soured in early June. The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment dropped to 87.2 in June from 92.1 in May, in contrast to forecasts of a modest rise. ...

Centro sells 19.9% stake in AMP Shopping Centre Trust

Centro Properties Group today announced that it had returned all acceptances for its takeover offer for the AMP Shopping Centre Trust (ART). "Centro has now sold its initial 19.9 per cent stake in ART at a $35.5 million profit before costs," Centro ...

RBA may cut interest rates, economy set to weaken: ICAP

The RBA seems set to cut interest rates soon, as the balance of risks slowly tilts and the economy looks set to weaken more than expected, the latest ICAP weekly insight has forecasted. "In its testimony to the House of Representatives Committee last ...

Standard and Poor's announces July 2003 quarterly changes to A&P/ASX indices

Standard and Poor's, the leading provider of equity indices in Australia, today announced that it had finalised additions and deletions to the S&P/ASX 20, S&P/ASX100, S&P/ASX 200 and S&P/ASX 300 indices. The additions will be reflected in the starting ...

Westpac launches EUR500million (A$885million) fixed rate note

Westpac Banking Corporation has launched a five-year EUR denominated fixed rate note, it announced today. This is Westpac's inaugural fixed rate Euro currency Eurobond. The issue was sold to over 60 investors across Europe and Asia, many of whom were ...

Morning Market Wrap: US Stocks End Up On Signs of Improving Sentiment

US stocks posted a second consecutive gain, fuelled by a major brokerage house lifting its recommendation on International Business Machines Corp. and a cautiously optimistic tone in the Fed's latest "Beige Book". The Dow Jones industrial average rose ...