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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... $44.65, and Rio Tinto was $1.37 lower, or 1.69 per cent, to $79.72. Other stocks to post significant losses were Medusa Mining, down 34 cents, or 4.15 per cent, to $7.85, Atlas Iron was down 13 cents, or 3.72 per cent, to $3.36, and OZ Minerals was 5.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... days and that's propping up the market." During late morning trade, Rio Tinto Ltd chief executive Tom Albanese said the mining giant was running strongly and benefiting from favourable, albeit volatile, markets for its products. Mr Peacock said this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... a barrel. And falling prices for oil and metals hurt the energy and materials companies whose fortunes depend on them. Mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc lost 3.9 per cent. Occidental Petroleum Corp lost 2.5 per cent. Earnings results were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... 928. TrustPower rose 8c to 760 and Infratil rose 1c to 190. Tower rose 2c to 188. OceanaGold eased 12c to 360 after higher mining and processing costs were a feature of its first-quarter result.

UBS lost fund finds a manager

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... providing analytical support to the fund during the transition period, including the Australian Large Cap Equities Team, mining and energy analyst Robert Turner. According to Morningstar, UBS had $402.9 million in funds under management in Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... Corporation reports first quarter results. In Perth, Kagara Ltd executive chairman Kim Robinson addresses a Western Australia Mining Club luncheon. The Electricity Price & Markets Dynamic Review conference begins in Sydney. On Wednesday, the Australian ...

Selection the key as mining stocks surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Australia's four biggest mining companies generated close to half of the total profits of the ASX's top 50 companies in 2010 but fund managers are highlighting the need to be extremely selective with investments. According to a study by accounting firm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Qantas Airways Ltd chief executive Alan Joyce addresses an Australian Institute of Company Directors luncheon. Newcrest Mining Ltd and Mount Gibson Iron Ltd release third quarter production reports, and Woodside Petroleum Ltd issues its first quarter ...

UBS staff gone, ratings on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... of the UBS funds family are providing analytical support to the fund, including the Australian Large Cap Equities Team, mining and energy analyst Robert Turner. UBS said they were well advanced in their search for replacements and had interviewed candidates. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... AEST, the price of spot gold in Sydney was $US1485.78, up $US9.98 from Friday's close of $US1,475.80. Gold miner Newcrest Mining was down nine cents at $41.21. In news on Monday, the Housing Industry Association and RP Data said Australian residential ...