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		<title><![CDATA[Apollo Gas Shares Double on ASX Debut]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Newly listed petroleum explorer Apollo Gas Ltd has seen its share price double after its stock exchange debut on Tuesday.Apollo has an interest in seven exploration licences covering 23,600 square kilometres in the Sydney-Gunnedah Basin in NSW.The licences include potential coal seam gas and conventional hydrocarbon targets close to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Govt Spending Rose 0.7% in Sept: ABS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General government final consumption expenditure rose by 0.7 per cent in the September quarter in seasonally adjusted chain volume terms, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said on Tuesday.General government gross fixed capital formation rose by 6.7 per cent while gross fixed capital formation by public corporations rose by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:38:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Home Building Surges Nearly 10%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Builders started work on more than 34,000 new residential homes in the three months to September, a 9.4 per cent increase on the previous quarter, new data shows.This was the first growth in home building in a year, aided by low interest rates and a generous first home owners'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Personal Loans Fell 1.5% in October]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Total personal finance commitments fell 1.5 per cent in October, seasonally adjusted, to $6.953 billion, from $7.062 billion in September, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said on Monday.Total commercial finance was down 16.3 per cent in October, seasonally adjusted, to $25.778 billion, down from $30.803 billion in September.Lease...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Most Listed Firms Worse Off, Report Says]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most listed companies ended the financial year in worse financial shape compared with a year earlier, a report says.The Australian Corporate Health Index report from specialist advisory firm 333 Consulting found 71 per cent of listed companies had gone backwards over the past financial year.This was up from the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AP Eagers Lifts 2009 Earnings Estimate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Automotive retail group AP Eagers Ltd has lifted its earnings guidance for calendar 2009.Net profit before tax was expected to be within the range of $48 million to $50 million for the year ending December 31, 2009, the company said in a statement on Friday.The company's previous forecast, on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sept Quarter GDP Data Due to Show Growth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Australian economy continued to expand in the third quarter as fiscal stimulus, company stock re-building and a lift in construction compensated for relatively flat consumption growth.The Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS national accounts data due next week are expected to show that gross domestic product GDP expanded by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Macquarie to Buy Shares For Bonuses]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd will buy $350 million of existing shares for bonus payments to senior staff, after changing its remuneration arrangements in October.The shares will be bought and held under the Macquarie Group Employee Retained Equity Plan, a proposed new plan, the Sydney-based investment bank said in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Govt Expects Xmas Broadband Breakthrough]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Federal Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy says he is confident the government will have significant progress to announce by Christmas in the broadband negotiations with Telstra.Discussions with Telstra continue to be "very constructive", Senator Conroy told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.Telstra was committed to understanding what the government's direction was,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:31:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BoQ Expects Better Conditions in 2010]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bank of Queensland Ltd says economic conditions in the coming year and cost reduction and efficiency gains should provide better trading conditions for the regional lender."Economic data is pointing to more conducive trading conditions for the Bank in 2010 than the past 12 months," chairman Neil Summerson said in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:29:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cash Rate Unlikely to Hit 5%: Broker]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ While further interest rate rises can be expected next year, one mortgage broker believes it is unlikely that the official cash rate will top five per cent.Loan Market Group chief operating officer Dean Rushton says he would be surprised to see the Reserve Bank raise the cash rate again...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:52:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eastern Australia Gas Demand 'to Triple']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The nation's third largest natural gas producer Santos Ltd says demand for the energy source could triple in eastern Australia over the next 10 years.Santos vice-president for eastern Australia Mark Macfarlane told an investor presentation on Wednesday that gas demand in the eastern states was currently about 600 petajoules...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Caltex Expects Similar Result to 2008]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Caltex Australia Ltd says it expects its 2009 profit to be roughly in line with the previous year after incurring costs on the closure of an oil refinery.Australia's largest listed oil refiner said on Wednesday it expects an after-tax profit of between $180 million and $205 million for calendar...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:16:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rate Rises to Continue, Economists Say]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Homeowners face steadily rising interest rates during the next two years with the Reserve Bank's cash rate reaching 5.5 per cent in 2011, economists say.The results of the Australian Business Economists ABE annual forecasting survey, released on Tuesday, forecast the cash rate to reach 4.75 per cent in 2010,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CBA Bulks Up Equities Research, Sales]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia's biggest lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd, has bulked up its institutional equities business by poaching 16 employees, mostly from investment banks.A telecommunications analyst formerly at Credit Suisse, Mark Storey, has been appointed head of research product, Sydney-based CBA said in a statement on Tuesday.CBA appointed a further...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:33:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Current Account Deficit Hits $16b: ABS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia reported a seasonally adjusted current account deficit of $16.183 billion in the September quarter from a revised deficit of $13.133 billion in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said on Tuesday.The median market forecast was for a deficit of $16.8 billion in the September quarter.The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:50:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ING Industrial Completes $700m Raising]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ING Industrial Fund has completed a $700 million capital raising, which it used to repay debt and set aside for potential purchases of Australian industrial properties.The fund will issue about 443 million new units, representing the final close of the accelerated non renounceable retail entitlement offer, Sydney-based manager of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:43:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CBA Raises Home Loan Rate By 37bps]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia's biggest home loan lender Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd CBA has raised its standard variable lending rate by more than the central bank's increase.CBA said in a statement on Friday that it would increase its standard variable home loan rate by 37 basis points to 6.61 per cent,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Qld Budget Deficit Grows]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Queensland government is forecast to record a $2.351 billion deficit for 2009/10, blowing out from a budget forecast of $1.954 billion, Treasurer Andrew Fraser says.Releasing the mid-year economic and fiscal review on Friday, Mr Fraser said unemployment was now expected to peak at 6.5 per cent in 2010/11,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:37:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AACo New CEO to Be Paid Up to $A1.1m]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The new chief executive of beef producer Australian Agricultural Company Ltd AACo, David Farley, could receive an annual pay package of up to $1.1 million.Mr Farley took up his new position on December 1, 2009.AACo said on Friday that Mr Farley's annual remuneration comprised fixed remuneration of $600,000, an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:24:00 -0800</pubDate>
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