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AMP Ltd announces $2 billion loss

AMP Limited has today announced a bottom line loss of $2.16 billion, reflecting the impact of writedowns and restructuring costs announced on 1 May 2003...

Standard & Poor's announces additions to the S&P/ASX Indices

Equity indices provider Standard & Poor’s has announced that, effective after the close of business on 26 August 2003...

IOOF Holdings appoints new board chairman following Macek resignation

IOOF Holdings Ltd has appointed Ray Schoer as the new chairman of the board, following Charles Macek’s resignation yesterday...

Morning market wrap: US shares weather bombings

Major US share market indexes rose overnight, although two separate bombings in the Middle East and a disappointing earnings report after the market from Hewlett-Packard have raised the spectre of renewed risk aversion

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from NMMT

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today announced that it had accepted an enforceable undertaking from NMMT...

Afternoon market wrap: Local shares eke out small gains

The Australian share market lost ground in afternoon trade, although the All Ordinaries index eventually finished 2.7 points higher 3,167.7.

Westpac leading indicator strengthens in June

Australian economic growth is poised to recover strongly in the first half of 2004, according to Bill Evans, Westpac’s Chief Economist.

Wattle director pleads guilty to 48 charges: ASIC

Anscor Pty Ltd director Anne Shirley Corbett has pleaded guilty, in the Brisbane District Court, to 48 charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests...

Macquarie Airports register positive results since March downturns

Macquarie Airports (MAp) have said that their international and domestic airport projects have shown positive growth for the first time since the...

Sales of new motor vehicles rise 1.3% to 78,316 in July

The number of new motor vehicle sales for July rose 1.3 per cent to 78,316 compared with 77,300 in June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today...