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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Woodside Petroleum Ltd and OZ Minerals Ltd issue quarterly production reports. Metal Storm Ltd holds a general meeting, the Mining the Pilbara conference take places in Port Hedland, and Wah Nam International Holdings holds its annual general meeting ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... received a takeover offer valuing it at $1.44 billion. The stock was up eight cents, or 20 per cent, at 48 cents after Hanlong Mining Investment made a 50-cents-per-share cash offer. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,592.58 per ounce, up $US11.38 ...

Continuum sees value as active managers scrape past benchmark

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... adding value by picking up resource stocks, in Q2 they sold down some of those in favour of industrials benefiting from the mining boom, before turning their attention to financials in Q3 and back to resources in Q4 as values fell. The fund is currently ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... $15.50 Peabody Coal bid for Macarthur Coal," he said. Macarthur shares leapt $4.11, or 37.09 per cent, to $15.19 after US mining giant Peabody Energy made a $4.7 billion takeover bid for the Queensland company in tandem with the world's largest steel ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... per cent, to $3.03, but leaving Singapore Telecommunications - owner of Optus - unchanged at $2.41. Gold major Newcrest Mining turned positive during morning trading as the gold price tracked higher and the stock was up one cent to $38.80 by 1209 AEST. ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... expansion and along with it, continued demand for Australia's coal, steel and other minerals export. But while Australian mining and resources companies are basking in the glow of China, other sectors appear to be doing it tough. One such sector is retail. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon, extending gains from the open amid broad-based strength led by mining and energy companies. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 50.7 points, or 1.13 per cent, at 4,525.0 points, while the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... economics news scheduled on Wednesday. In equities news, Village Roadshow Ltd holds a general meeting, and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) heads into day two of its three-day convention in Perth. On Tuesday, the Australian ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Ltd chief executive Tom Albanese addresses an Australian Institute of Company Directors' luncheon, and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) opens its three-day convention, with addresses by Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott ...

Property up, interest rate rises: BIS Shrapnel

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... manager at BIS Shrapnel, said the investment house had assumed China's continued strong demand for resources, that scheduled mining projects would continue and that there would be no new credit squeeze. He said rising commodity prices would underpin ...