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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 ...

Liquidator sees big rise in failing small business

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2004
A veteran liquidator said he had seen a huge rise in the number of small businesses folding because they were unable to come to grips with the tax system. Dean McVeigh of Melbourne's Foremans Business Advisers said he has been dealing with more distressed ...

Telstra faces hostile shareholders

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2003
Angry Telstra Corp shareholders last week applied their collective war paint for what turned out to be an unexpectedly hostile annual general meeting in Sydney. In a marathon session which stretched beyond five hours, the airing of grievances ranged ...

ANZ poised to buy Lloyds NZ unit

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group is poised to announce a deal to buy Lloyds TSB Group Plc's New Zealand banking operations for around 2.34 billion pounds ($3.96 billion), a source close to the situation said on Thursday. ANZ is hoping to announce ...

ANZ launches proceedings over NHB insurance recovery

ANZ has issued proceedings in the Victorian Supreme Court regarding ANZ's $130 million insurance claim, consequent upon settlement in January 2002 of its former subsidiary Grindlays Bank's 1992 dispute with India's National Housing Bank (NHB). The proceedings ...

Anti-spam bill passed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Australians may soon get relief from annoying, unsolicited emails after the House of Representatives today passed a bill to combat spam emails. The bill will give the Australian Communications Authority the power to issue formal warnings, seek injunctions ...

Nearly half of all Australian employees not happy with their jobs

In the 2003 Seek Survey of Employee Satisfaction and Motivation in Australia almost half of employees were not happy with their jobs, with 49 per cent of employees responding that they were unhappy or very unhappy, compared with just 25% of employees ...

Norwich Union Australia to adopt global Aviva brand

Norwich Union Australia has today adopted the global Aviva brand for its business, however its Navigator business will continue to use the well-recognised Navigator brand. Aviva chief executive Allan Griffiths said the brand change was part of the group's ...

Stockland continue property construction expansion

Stockland has announced the acquisition of an 8,442 square metre prime waterfront site located on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin within the Kingston Foreshore Development in Canberra's premier urban redevelopment project for $27 million. "The acquisition ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail lower

The All Ordinaries dipped lower by 23 points or about 0.72 per cent in trading today whilst Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 44.22 points or 0.41%. The Nikkei index plunged 309.99 points or 2.94% as technology stocks reacted badly to a video tape of ...