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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon on Tuesday, pulled back by mining and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 46 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,925.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
The Australian market has received a mostly positive set of leads from weekend offshore trading, with Wall Street closing higher and commodities prices ending firmer. At 0805 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 11 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... million ($A228.42 million) to advance a feasibility study for extending the life of Kennecott Utah Coppers Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City, in the United States. Major lenders were mixed. National Australia Bank gained 19 cents to $26.14, Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight. Key securities markets were higher, oil reached a new record, and metals also rose. At 0714 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The Australian share market had slid into the red by noon on low trading volumes as investors waited for direction from forthcoming offshore economic news. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.7 points, or 0.14 per cent, at 4,893.4 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... preliminary hearing opened in Greymouth on Tuesday. NZOG has a 29 per cent shareholding in Pike River, the West Coast coal mine where an explosion last November killed 29 men. The market did not react to the release of the New Zealand Institute of Economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
The Australian share market was higher at noon on Tuesday as traders showed confidence in equities following news that the US was unlikely to raise interest rates soon. At 1220 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 11 points, or 0.23 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... cents to $2.06 after it terminated an agreement with a Chinese steel manufacturer for the sale of 80 per cent of life of mine production from the Extension Hill mine. Atlas Iron climbed nine cents to $3.79 as it said it was on track to export 1.5 million ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... per cent, to $46.45 on the company's announcement it will invest $US319 million ($A310.51 million) in its Escondida copper mine in Chile. Mr Saffer said the miner's announcement late on Wednesday that its planned Olympic Dam expansion had reached feasbility ...

Record NSW election loss could slow federal reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
A record breaking 16.5 per cent swing last weekend against the NSW Labor Party has the potential to derail many of the Gillard federal government's reforms, pushing a nervous federal government to pull more of its punches on major changes to the financial ...