25 November 2003 06:24
AAP MARKETS REPORT for Tuesday, November 25, 2003 =4 Sydney
INTERNATIONAL NEWS MOSCOW - Foreign students trapped by fire in a dilapidated university dormitory shrieked for help
and leapt in desperation from its upper stories in an early-morning inferno that killed 36 people and injured nearly 140
others. BAGHDAD - Iraqis began celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan today, but festivities were
subdued by intense US security after the grisly killings of American soldiers at the weekend. NEW YORK - Canadian tycoon
Edgar Bronfman and a group of investors today snagged Warner Music from Time Warner for $US2.6 billion ($A3.6 billion),
in the latest shakeup for the struggling recording industry. WASHINGTON - The US economy will rush to a 20-year record
growth pace next year, enough finally to shrink the jobless queues, a panel of top business economists said today.
CHICAGO - Boeing Co fired its chief financial officer today for negotiating the hiring of a missile defence expert while
she worked for the US government and was in a position to influence Boeing contracts. NATIONAL NEWS CANBERRA - Labor
will decide this morning whether to back a key element of the government's $2.4 billion Medicare package. CANBERRA
- University vice-chancellors will lobby the federal government and senators today for key changes to planned higher
education reforms. PARIS - A new visa accord between France and Australia allowing young people from each country to
work in the other for up to a year was hailed as a big boost to bilateral ties by the Australian ambassador in Paris
today. CANBERRA - The federal government is ramping up its border protection message after the Senate overturned the
excision of 4,000 islands from the nation's migration zone. MORE
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