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Midday market wrap: Shares fall in line with US

The All Ordinaries index gave up some ground during the morning session as fears of sluggish growth in the US exacerbated existing SARS-related woes in global equity markets...

Midday market wrap: All Ordinaries trail lower slightly

The All Ordinaries drifted lower by 1.3 points despite positive movement by some of the bigger listed  companies and the banking sector.ANZ share price was up...

Westfield Trust completes $200 million equity raising

Westfield Trust announced that it had completed a $200 million issue of ordinary units at a price of $3.30 today with distribution entitlements from July 1 2003...

ANZ profits up by $1.14 billion

ANZ Bank today announced an operating profit after tax of $1.14 billion for the half year ended March 2003. This is an increase of 8.7 per cent for the same period last year...

Morning market wrap: All Ordinaries at three month high

The All Ordinaries will begin trading on a three month high today following good returns from the banking sector yesterday. ANZ announced a profit of $1.14 billion...

$4.6 billion Retail Employees Super Trust to decide on asset consultant

The $4.6 billion Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST), which has 1.2 million members, of whom 713,000 are active, making it Australia’s biggest super fund...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries dip slightly

The All Ordinaries dipped slightly in close of trading prior the Anzac Day weekend. Qantas shares in particular experienced a significant fall, with its share price falling $0.12 to $3.00 or a fall of 4 per cent...

ING Australia in CEO change of guard

The Board of ING Australia has announced the appointment of Paul Bedbrook to succeed John Wylie as chief executive officer of ING Australia as of July 1 2003...

Flight Centre records $68.8 million in profits

Flight Centre today announced an increase of 21 per cent in its pre tax profit of $68.8 million for the nine months to March 31, 2002 and  a 31% increase in gross ticket sales and other revenue to $3.14 billion...

Hartley's sells margin lending book

Hartleys Limited today announced the settlement of the sale of its margin lending book to Adelaide Bank. The sale, made with a book value of approximately $130 million...