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Stockland raises $538million in first US private placement of an Australian LPT

Stockland, one of Australia’s largest property groups, today confirmed terms and pricing of an issue of unsecured notes into the US private placement market...

AiG & QBE expected to unveil healthy profit results

Two of Australia's biggest insurers, Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) and QBE Insurance Group Ltd...

AUI posts 30% profit increase

Equities investment group Australian United Investment Company Ltd (AUI) lifted profits by more than 30 per cent for 2002/03...

Midday market wrap: Markets quiet in early trade

Australian bond and share markets moved sideways to slightly higher in morning trade...

FSIU launches unique ratings product

The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit today launched a new series of investment performance review (IPR) ratings for 480 Australian wholesale managed funds...

Westpac submits application to New Zealand Commerce Commission

Westpac Banking Corporation announced today that it had submitted an application to the New Zealand Commerce Commission regarding the sale...

Westpac expected to bid for NBNZ

Westpac Banking Corp Ltd is expected to reveal today it is in the running for the $5 billion auction of the National Bank of New Zealand...

National Exchange, David Tweed in court over OneSteel offer

ASIC has won a court action temporarily preventing National Exchange Limited, and David Tweed, from making further unsolicited offers to shareholders in OneSteel...

Morning market wrap: US markets quiet amid lingering power outage

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2003
US financial markets endured wafer-thin trading volumes Friday, as electricity was only brought back haltingly to areas, including New York, hit by a major outage the day before...

Former NTI managing director sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

Trevor Gregory Smith, a former managing director of National Transport Insurance Ltd (NTI), has been sentenced in the Southport District Court in relation to 13 charges...