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Macquarie Goodman to raise $150 million

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
Macquarie Goodman said today it will raise $150 million with the completion of a placement to fund business activities. The placement of about 91.46 million units at $1.64 each will be used to fund a recent acquisition, projects within the company's ...

Analysts rush to upgrade AMP forecasts after guidance rise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
AMP's $100 million upgrade to its earnings guidance caught the share market on the hop yesterday, leading to a flock of estimate revisions by investment analysts. Citigroup Smith Barney raised its forecast for AMP's core earnings by $93 million to $614 ...

Contango LIC to focus on micro-caps

Contango Asset Management has launched what it claims is Australia's first listed investment company (LIC) investing exclusively in the micro-cap sector of the Australian market. Shares in the LIC, Contango MicroCap, were available from yesterday with ...

London trader nets $A70 million bonus

A financial trader for US investment bank Goldman Sachs has earnt Britain's biggest ever bonus worth at least STG30 million ($A71 million), it was reported. Driss Ben-Brahim, who personally generated hundreds of millions in profits for the bank in 2003 ...

NAB and St George access offshore credit markets

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
National Australia Bank and St George Bank have both launched and priced debt transactions in the offshore markets overnight. National Australia Bank issued $US300 million in a 5-year Floating Rate Note (FRN) at an all-in price of 8.5 basis points over ...

Telstra announces off market share buy back

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
Telstra Corp Ltd today said it would buy back between $800 million and $1 billion of its own shares in an off market tender process. Telstra, which had flagged the possibility of a share buyback when it announced its full year results recently, said ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Shares rally on rosy earnings prospects

Shares in the Australian Stock Exchange Ltd rallied today, after two broking firms pointed to rosy earnings prospects for the company. The shares - which have gained nearly 40 per cent since mid-March - jumped 33 cents or nearly three per cent to $14.28 ...

NAB intends to buy back 25 million shares

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
National Australia Bank Ltd said today it intended to buy back up about 25.5 million ordinary shares. The bank said its current intention is to continue to seek to buyback a number of ordinary shares approximating the number of ordinary shares issued ...

Fosters announces broader capital management

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
Global beverages firm Foster's Group Ltd said today it would provide details on its broader capital management intentions after determining the net proceeds of the spin-off its Australian Hospitality (ALH) and Leisure pubs and gaming business. Earlier ...

BHP Billiton benefits from lnickel upswing underestimated: analysts

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
BHP Billiton Ltd's earnings benefits from the upswing in the stainless steel cycle had been underestimated, analysts said today. The comments came after the global miner updated the market on its plans to increase nickel production in a bid to meet ...