Forum Archive Index - August 2002

["The ShareChat Team" <info@sharechat.co.nz>]

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

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Fletcher Building exceeds market expectations with $93 million

Fletcher Building has announced a June year net profit of $93 million, a huge 
improvement on the previous year's loss of $272 million

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/1068ad87

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Fletcher Chairman disappointed, unshaken about failed deal

Fletcher Forests is reviewing its options in the wake of a shareholder vote 
rejecting its $1.4 billion purchase of the 160,000ha Central North Island 
forest estate

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/98b21ab5

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RB leaves cash rate unchanged because of global storm warnings

Acting Reserve Bank governor Rod Carr today bowed to the influence of a wobbly 
world economy and left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.75 percent

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/00404238

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Straightedge signs North American deal

Carter Holt Harvey's Straightedge Division said today it had signed a deal with 
Canadian company Silk Systems

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/0f25cc56

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More rate rises not urgent and may be unnecessary - Carr

Acting Reserve Bank governor Rod Carr today left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) 
unchanged and said further interest rate rises were not urgent and may be 
unnecessary

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/10151edc

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Fletcher Building exceeds market expectations with $93 million

A construction revival has helped Fletcher Building exceed market expectations 
for its annual profit and stage a major turnaround from the previous year's 
loss

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/1068ad87


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The ShareChat Team

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