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Business conditions strong, but confidence falls: survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2003
... measured by the Composite Index. In November, most sectors reported stronger business conditions, with double-digit improvements in wholesaling, transport and storage and agribusiness. However residential construction and related services, communications ...

CBA expands adviser support for Financial Wisdom

... recognise the importance of Financial Wisdom and will be growing this part of our business through various service improvements and a focus on updating financial planners' skills and expertise and the support we provide.\"

Commonwealth Bank chief calls for raised labour productivity

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
... that these things happen." He said a well managed, stable financial system could play a vital role in facilitating improvements in productivity. As well, the way governments chose to intervene in the financial sector was central to its performance. "They ...

Treasury boss pushes reforms to maintain growth

... past, most of Australia's projected future annual growth in GDP (gross domestic product) will come from productivity improvements." He said the Government has forecast 3.25% economic growth in 2003-04, and 3.5% over the following three years, but may ...

ASX reports $19.4 million profits in Q1

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2003
... same period a year earlier. "This revenue growth reflects strong trading activity in equities and options, modest improvements in listings revenue and a stable performance in market data," the company said. "Costs continue to be effectively managed." ...

Economy strong; rates will rise: NAB survey

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2003
... said. The survey says business confidence increased by 4 index points to a very high level of +19.4 index points. The improvements have been broad based, with strong improvements in confidence in transport, agribusiness and business services. However ...

Lenders could withstand substantial housing correction: APRA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... depositors' safety over the medium to longer term. "For a few institutions, nonetheless, APRA has identified specific improvements that are required to risk management policies and APRA will be working with these institutions to achieve this." More than ...

Low rainfall sparks hopes of high insurance earnings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... the next two years. As well as benefiting from a lower claims environment, IAG and QBE are also poised to gain from improvements on global investment markets. The analysts said that given IAG was in such a strong capital position, Australia's biggest ...

Jobless rate down, could go lower: Costello

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... Minister Kevin Andrews said the latest unemployment figures confirmed the strength of the economy and pointed to further improvements in the Labour market in the months ahead. "While labor force figures can vary from month to month, today's results confirm ...

Midday market wrap: Nikkei edges up while All Ords deteriorate

... edged up by midday on Wednesday, with the topside capped after investors focused on indications of a slowdown in improvements to sentiment in the Bank of Japan's "tankan" corporate survey. The Australian stock market continued to deteriorate at noon ...