| | Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand |
 | | National Australia, in the middle of a three-year recovery plan since Stewart took charge in February 2004, will more than double investment in its domestic businesses to A$1.8 billion over three years, the bank said in September. |
 | | If margin pressure in the domestic banking business in the second half is larger than 5 basis points, ``this may provide some indication that National Australia has been pricing aggressively to win share,'' Jeff Emmanuel, an analyst at UBS AG, said in a report before the result. |
 | | Analysts will focus on the bank's interest margin, which measures the profitability of loans, after it slumped 21 basis points in the first half from a year earlier to 2.19 percent as rivalry increased and National Australia sold cheaper loans and paid higher interest on deposits. |
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