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Morning Market Wrap: Soft start

... said. Traders said investors favoured the Australian and New Zealand currencies given strong growth prospects in both nations. All Ordinaries 3274.7 +0 NASDAQ 1934.55 +2.29 Dow Jones 9777.20 +28.89 FTSE-100 4265.70 -7.20 Hang Seng 12130.51 +38.63 Nikkei ...

New tax amendment to strengthen investment ties with Malaysia: Coonan

... royalties and other income." Malaysia is Australia's third largest trading partner in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and the nation's 11th largest partner overall. Australia is Malaysia's 12th largest export market for goods and a major ...

Australian SRI efforts rewarded by UN

... socially responsible investment. The Royal Award for Responsible Investment is an inaugural citation developed by The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives (UNEP FI) and the Royal Awards for Sustainability. Judged by an international ...

APEC launches five-day Investment Mart

... Russian presidents attend and make public addresses, is not going to have a lasting effect on markets but will help the nations gel together and address key issues. The main objectives of the investment mart will be to showcase the economic potential ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

... focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 member nations that represent 2.5 billion people, a combined GDP of $25.71 trillion and 47 per cent of world trade. "I believe that we ...

Dollar consolidates ahead of $US0.70 push

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2003
... dollar, combined with the Australian economy remaining strong and expectations the RBA will lift rates ahead of other nations. Early this week European Central Bank departing president Wim Duisenberg's suggestion a further fall in the US dollar was inevitable ...

Commonwealth ministers meet in Brunei, focus on poverty

... economies and still heavily dependent on agriculture. Of the 54 members, only four are apparently considered to be developed nations, even though the grouping's 1.7 billion people account for a third of the world's population. "This whole issue of agriculture ...

Afternoon market wrap: Lacklustre performance by the All Ords

... the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference in Cancun ended in failure as the international delegations from presiding nations failed to hammer out an acceptable deal. WTO officials warn that the deadlock could lead to continued problems for the poorer ...

NZ mergers and acquisitions actvity rises 37.26% for the quarter

... million while the Australian involvement in New Zealand, with NZ$66.3 million, put them at second place among acquirer nations. The largest individual merging and acquisitions activity in New Zealand for the first quarter period of 2003 was that of TrustPower ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries at 42-month low

... upward climb as fears of war heightened with the US, UK and Spain bringing forward a resolution on Iraq to the United Nations stating that Baghdad was in breach of UN resolution 1441. In the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang was testing US and South Korea's ...