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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2004
The Australian market is likely to open slightly firmer, although it could slip into the red over the course of the day as weaker oil, gold and base metal prices impact resource stocks. US markets nudged ahead overnight as other offshore stockmarkets ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2004
The Australian sharemarket is expected to continue to gain ground, following a strong lead from offshore markets overnight. All three United States indices rose by more than one per cent overnight and this, coupled with solid gains from European stock ...

Invest Victoria to lure investment to state

The Victorian Minister for the Financial Services Industry Tim Holding has announced the launch of a new state government body that will consolidate all current investment activity under one umbrella, and market Victoria as an attractive location for ...

Southcorp dumped from S&P/ASX 50, Tempo dumped form ASX 200

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
Wine group Southcorp Ltd will be dumped from the S&P/ASX 50 index and Tempo Services Ltd will be dropped from the S&P/ASX 200, Standard & Poor's said today. Also ditched from the S&P/ASX 200, the Australian share market's benchmark index, will be Amalgamated ...

Australian United Investment reports profit jump

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2004
Australian United Investment Company said dividends received through participation in share buy back schemes had contributed to a significant rise in first half net profit for 2003-2004. The equities investment group said revenue for the half year to ...

Ex-AMP man to head Invest Victoria

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2004
Former AMP China representative Ben Foskett has been named chief executive of Victoria\'s new investment attraction agency Invest Victoria. Victorian Minister for State and Regional Development John Brumby said Foskett\'s business experience in Asia ...

ATO draft ruling casts doubt on buyback structure

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
Capital loss benefits for shareholders involved in share buybacks could be reduced following a draft ruling from the Australian Tax Office. The Australian Financial Review reported the ATO's draft determination, released yesterday, raised concerns that ...

Midday market wrap: Shares, bonds both ease on stronger US data

The Australian share market opened in negative territory, following a fall in the United States market on Friday night. At early trade the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 9.3 points weaker at 3239.2 while the all ordinaries index fell 7.6 points to ...

RBA says little to be gained by delaying rise in interest rates

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2003
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said today there would have been little to be gained in delaying a rise in interest rates, given the stronger growth prospects both domestically and abroad. The RBA said in its November Statement on Monetary Policy ...

ALP to lift veil on super strategy

ALP shadow treasurer Mark Latham will next week begin to spell out in detail the Federal Opposition's plans for the superannuation industry, as part of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA's) annual conference to be held in Brisbane. ...