澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-08-09（在线收听）

Banking stocks have taken a battle as investors sold out spurred by tough new capital rules, ANZ shares lead the slump on the completion of 3 billion dollar capital raising, down to ensure it has enough spare cash to satisfy regulators. ANZ shares plunged over 7%, the rest of the big four followed. Orica hit a six year low in asset writedowns. The major banks make up a huge proportion of the border market, so not surprisingly the end is tanned. The All Ords droped 2.3%, the ASX 200 index lost 2.4. The Australian dollar rose after the RBA's quarterly statement with more rapid than expected. 

There is a * says that the unemployment rate in Australia has likely picked. In its quarterly statement how monitory policy the RBA expects unemployment to sit just about 6% for some time. The bank revised down its growth forecast for 2016, and expects a slump pick up in late 2017.


Virgin Australia's loss has narrowed as the domestic capacity war with Quantas's quotes. Virgin lost 93 million dollars last financial year, a 69% improvement on the previous period. Domestic corportion spring back into the black, the result was weighed down by the international division. The airline is on track to return to profitablity in this financial year.