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Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
The Australian sharemarket opened firmer on Wednesday and was 1.2 per cent higher in early trading on positive offshore leads and solid earnings results from heavyweights BHP Billiton and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). At 1045 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
The Australian share market received positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing higher and commodities and metals prices firmer. At 0815 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 40 points at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
The Australian sharemarket was suffering from broad-based weakness in trading by noon, with European sovereign debt concerns proving a counter to positive local corporate earnings results. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.9 points ...

Asia unseats South Africa in gold race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Indonesia, Tanzania and China reported the fastest growing output for gold last year - usurping South Africa, once the world's largest gold producer, which saw its production levels drop 5 per cent, according to a precious metals expert. British research ...

Investors gain sector-based ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Institutional investors and financial planners will soon be able to access locally listed sector-based exchange traded funds (ETF) after Australian Index Investments (Aii) announced plans to launch six ETFs to the market in the next three months. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from overseas markets, with Wall Street's main indices themselves mixed but oil and metals prices higher. At 0650 AEDT the on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
The Australian share market was moderately higher at noon following mild gains on Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.9 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4,546 while the broader All Ordinaries index had gained 30.5 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from overseas markets, with Wall Street's main indices closing slightly higher, and commodities and metals prices weaker. At 0725 AEDT the on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
The Australian share market continued to fall in morning trade, with major resource and financial stocks weighing on the main indices. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 40.2 points, or 0.86 per cent, at 4,607.7, while the broader ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Gold's spectacular run in 2009 appears to have run out of puff this early in the New Year. The yellow metal produced a hefty 27.1 per cent return last year as prices jumped from US$862.20 per ounce in January 2009 to a high of US$1,212.00 an ounce on ...