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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
The Australian market could continue with yesterday's retracement as weaker commodity prices overnight may have a negative impact on resource stocks. However, this could be tempered by moderate gains in US stocks. By 0655 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Telstra returns $1.5 bln a yr to shareholders over next

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2004
Telstra Corp today pledged to return $1.5 billion to shareholders annually for the next three years, in a move chief financial officer John Stanhope said should dent its credit rating but boost its shares. Australia's biggest telco also lifted its dividend ...

Lend Lease completes $414 million share buyback

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2004
Real estate group Lend Lease Corp today said it has completed a $414 million on market share buyback designed to trim about 10% of its issued capital. The property developer has bought back 41,958,434 shares between 13 June, 2003 and 12 June, 2004 at ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2004
The Australian market is likely to eke out some small gains on the day, although traders may struggle for direction given that the US market will be closed tonight and the Australian market is closed on Monday. Overnight, the US market gained ground ...

Fitch ups News Corp rating to BBB from BBB-minus

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2004
Fitch Ratings upgraded the senior unsecured debt rating for News Corp and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, News America Incorporated ("NAI") and News Corporation Finance Trust II ("Trust") to 'BBB' from 'BBB-minus'. The rating outlook is stable. News ...

Optus planning to buy Commander for $250 mln: report

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2004
Singapore Telecommunications subsidiary Optus is upping the stakes and planning an assault on Telstra Corp by buying small business telco provider Commander Communications, according to a report in The Australian Financial Review. The newspaper said ...

AAP Market Wrap

The Australian sharemarket fell at the open today, with a weak banking sector dragging the bourse down as a strong News Corp provided some support. At 1018 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 3.5 points lower at 3367.3 while the all ordinaries ...

Competition leaving little room for bank fee hikes, says Westpac

Competitive intensity among banks was leaving little room for lifting bank fees, Westpac Banking Corp chief executive David Morgan said [on Sunday]. Mr Morgan said there were no plans in the pipeline for across the board hikes in fees, although a moratorium ...

Banking chiefs extra vigilant after NAB scandal

No bank can assume there will never be an error but big losses signified a fairly significant breakdown of controls, Westpac Banking Corp head David Morgan said [on Sunday]. Mr Morgan declined to comment directly on the NAB foreign exchange scandal ...

News Corp in talks with Liberty ? Now clearer and muddier

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
Are they in talks? Are they not? Apparently they are. A fortnight ago Liberty Media's John Malone told the UK's Financial Times newspaper he was in "fairly active" talks with Rupert Murdoch about buying some of News Corp's media businesses. Mr Malone ...