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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... Composite Index was up 28.76 points at 2,792.67. LONDON - Britain's top share index rose one per cent as brewer Scottish & Newcastle leapt after rivals Carlsberg and Heineken said they planned a joint bid for the British firm. The FTSE 100 closed up ...

Sydney on $24 million a day

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... offer, some protesters are already enjoying free accommodation after getting creative on the side of a coal ship in Newcastle. On Tuesday morning, 12 Greenpeace activists rowed little inflatable boats into the world's biggest coal port and, in a play ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 1.2 per cent as credit market fears returned to global equities, but Scottish & Newcastle rose on hopes Carlsberg may bid for the brewer. The FTSE 100 ended down 75.5 points, or 1.2 per cent, at 6,143.5 after a ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... as in reality they may have limited alternatives. However, they are concerned about "very grave" coal ship queues at Newcastle and Dalrymple Bay and will be attending an all-day briefing with coal mining and transport companies, before seeing the Premier ...

Sustainable stock exchange set for opening

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
The Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX) is set to open a new trading board on the Newcastle-based National Stock Exchange (NSX), with high profile green campaigner and former US Vice President Al Gore to give an address at the opening. The FEX Sustainability ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... bottlenecks were only compounded by severe storms that necessitated dramatic cuts to the number of coal ships leaving Newcastle port. The port, which accounts for around a third of Australia's coal exports, continues to attract tourists to a large coal ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... close in two weeks as commodity shares and concerns over US economic growth weighed on the market, but brewer Scottish & Newcastle leapt on bid hopes. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,418.7 points, down 50.7 or 0.78 per cent, a drop of 50.7 points from Thursday. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... shares ended down, weighed by both AstraZeneca and Barclays but boosted by heavyweight oil stocks and brewer Scottish and Newcastle. The FTSE 100 closed 7.1 points, or 0.1 per cent lower at 4,479.7. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 7335.62 points ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... sellers are distressed". This follows the research and comments made by Professor Bill Mitchell of the University of Newcastle who said last week that despite the nationwide resources boom, the interest rate hikes of last year were negatively affecting ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... returns of approximately 10 per cent a month. The court also declared that the operators of the businesses, Mark Hughes of Newcastle, George Angelopoulos and Helen Gougas, both of Melbourne, had breached the Corporations Act in operating an unregistered ...