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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... depsite trading over 19 million shares by 1223 AEDT, after it said a dispute with local landowner groups at its namesake mine in Papua New Guinea had interrupted production. Crude oil fell in New York overnight, but that was from an almost three week ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received a mildly positive lead from Wall Street but stronger metal prices have pushed up the Sydney Futures Exchange. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 16 points higher at 3,345. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was a sea of red at noon with the materials sector leading the losses after a negative US lead and reports that the economies of Australia's three most important export destinations are softening. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Thankfully, the Obama mania that gripped the printed and electronic headlines around the world before and during his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States has drowned the negative media spin on the outlook for the domestic economy. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher, after healthy gains in securities on Wall Street, and oil, silver and copper rose in overnight trading. At 0808 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 46 points higher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... BHP Billiton declined 86 cents, or 2.97 per cent to $28.09 after the company said it would suspend the Ravensthorpe nickel mine, reduce production at its Mount Keith nickel mine and axe 6,000 jobs. Mr Walker said the announcement was not overly surprising. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market was 3.4 per cent lower at noon after falls in European equities and declining commodity prices overnight dragged the local bourse lower. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 124.9 points, or 3.48 per cent lower at 3464.4 ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Media coverage of Australia's employment statistics had been unanimously negative. But is it? The ink has barely dried on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was weaker at noon as local stocks had their biggest fall so far this year. There were heavy losses in both the resources and financial sectors after US stocks plunged overnight on more concerns over the depth of the recession. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was nearly two per cent lower at noon dragged down by a weak resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 64.6 points, or 1.75 per cent, at 3,618.7, and the broader All Ordinaries index had lost ...