Forum Archive Index - May 2001

["Ben Dutton" <bendutton@sharechat.co.nz>]

Hi everyone, here's the summary of the ShareChat News from yesterday.

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Yesterday's ShareChat News:


Briscoes considers float

Another retail stock may soon be looking for investor's dollars.

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/20010518-NZBIZbriscoefloat.shtml

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RetailX announces key transaction

More than eight months after listing retail company RetailX has identified a
company called Retail Services as its key transaction.

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/20010518-RTXkeytransaction.shtml

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Weekly Diary: Friday 18th May 2001

A summary of dividend dates, company meetings, and other important
information on NZSE listed companies

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/20010518-weeklydiary.shtml

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A selection of articles from this week's NBR are online now.

Market warns of Air NZ risk
Institutional investors yesterday warned that Air New Zealand urgently
needed a deeply discounted rights issue, similar to that which
re-capitalised Fletcher Forests, or it would be the next local airline in
receivership
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-01-frontpage.shtml

Lion piles on pressure in Montana war
Lion Nathan yesterday continued piling the pressure on rival Montana bidder
Allied Domecq, grabbing a further 5.67% to take its stake to 57.67%
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-03-news.shtml

Report Card: Waste Management shows enthusiasm
Waste Management's latest annual report makes much of its first full year
as an enlarged entity following the mid-1999 acquisition of Waste Care,
which almost doubled the size of its business
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-09-money.shtml

The O'Brien Column: Windfall investors chase sinking pool of local equity
investments
The current rash of full and partial takeover activity could have adverse
effects on New Zealand equity investment
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-10-money.shtml

Deadline looms for Metropolis bonds
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-02-news.shtml

Market warns of risks Air New Zealand is running
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-04-news.shtml

Timber Globalco idea mooted as a crisis looms
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-05-news.shtml

Trans Tasman rebels poised to vote down the takeover move
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-06-news.shtml

PPCS renews its raid on Richmond
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-07-news.shtml

Big three banks pick slower next half year in weakening economy
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-08-money.shtml

$US28m air deal signed and sealed
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-11-news.shtml

Technically Speaking: Monetarism hits the skids while challenges mount
around globe
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-12-money.shtml

CEO restarts efforts to make Air NZ profits fly
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-13-travel.shtml

The Shoeshine Column: The more it changes the more it's BIL
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/articles/nbr/20010518-14-money.shtml

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Best Regards

The ShareChat Team



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