Australia move lifts credit hopes
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Actions by Australia's central bank hint that the recent credit crunch problems could be easing.
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Pressure grew on Australia's central bank on Wednesday to raise interest rates despite the turmoil in global stock markets and fears of a US recession after new data showed core inflation surged to a 16-year high in the final quarter of 2007.
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Share prices in Sydney are boosted by hopes of a fresh round of economic liberalisation, following the re-election of Australian prime minister John Howard.
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Moody's Investors Service may downgrade  A$83 billion ($75.5 billion) worth of Australian  mortgage-backed debt, in the latest spillover from the U.S.  subprime crisis.
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THE Australian dollar strengthened today as some commodity-based trading helped pushed the domestic unit higher. At 7am (AEST) the local unit was trading at $US0.
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The Australian sharemarket finished sharply higher today as resource giant BHP Billiton helped lead the market to a recovery from yesterday&#39;s falls.
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Australian inflation surges in the three months to the end of September, raising the prospect of an interest rate rise.
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Growing world markets for minerals and energy will help push Australia&#39;s commodity exports up 15 percent to a record 95 billion Australian dollars (US$71 billion; euro54 billion) this fiscal year, the government&#39;s chief commodities forecaster said Monday.
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Northern Rock is to lift the rates on its range of fixed-term mortgages to borrowers with patchy credit histories.
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SYDNEY : Australian share prices returned to record territory, adding 0.28 percent as investors shrugged off disappointing results from National Australia Bank to send the market higher, dealers said.
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SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Bank of Australia said it expects increased earnings in the current financial year even though home lending had eased and margins are being squeezed in an increasingly competitive financial sector.
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News Corp.&#39;s shift will improve trading liquidity and give better access to US capital markets. The company, which already has a secondary listing in London, will also seek a listing on the Australian Stock
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There was a measure of relief for the banking sector on Tuesday after the Treasury extended its guarantee beyond Northern Rock's customer deposits to its wholesale banking products.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--As Australia consigns the lengthy federal election campaign to history, the outlook for interest rates returned to center stage Monday as housing
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MILLIONS of homeowners were given a boost yesterday after the Bank of England opted to keep interest rates at 4.75%. Economists had predicted the move after a string of surveys
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The Bush administration has gotten a boost from an improving employment picture in Australia, which was being credited by analysts yesterday for a solid weekend re-election
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The Australian share market has rebounded and recovered almost all of its losses from yesterday. At the end of trade the All Ordinaries was 23.