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Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell in a Asia-Pacific region-wide sell off, as offshore uncertainty spooked investors. Steel & Tube Holdings, Auckland International Airport and Fletcher Building fell. The NZX 50 Index fell 6.035 points, or 0.1 per cent ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... Russell Investments chief executive for Asia Pacific Pete Gunning said. "With the chances of a prolonged downturn in China's steel consumption and volatility in bank stocks, investors are becoming skittish - with good reason." Speaking about property ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... property. "China has been through a massive industrialisation process and has driven the most rapid increase in demand for steel that the world has seen," Fenton explained. "But what do we do when the mining boom winds up? This is not a cycle that's ...

China slowdown will hit Australia

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... 2014, to 7.1% in 2015, 7.0% in 2016 and 6.9% in 2017. China is a major buyer of Australian iron ore, which is used to make steel. "In China, as it shifts to a consumption-led, rather than an investment-led, growth model, the main challenge is to implement ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... Statistics releases lending finance data. No major equities news is expected. Meanwhile, in Perth, the Global Iron Ore and Steel Forecast Conference continues. In Australia, the market on Thursday enjoyed its best gains in almost a month due to jobs ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... president Jimmy Wilson and Rio's iron ore chief executive Andrew Harding are slated to speak at the Global Iron Ore and Steel Forecast Conference in Perth. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum reversed 32 cents to $34.52 and Santos shed six cents ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... chief executive Andrew Harding and BHP Billiton iron ore president Jimmy Wilson are slated to speak at Global Iron Ore and Steel Forecast Conference in Perth. And, OrotonGroup is expected to post half year results. In Australia, the market on Monday ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... finish with no real reason to push higher after the mixed bag of reportings from this morning," Mr K'Nell said. BlueScope Steel was one of the worst performing stocks, despite a 62 per cent rise in underling half year profit, as investors were underwhelmed ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) professionals must steel themselves against the criticism levelled at the sector, said AMP SMSF head of policy and technical Peter Burgess, who set out to dispel some of the charges made against SMSFs in a presentation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
The share market is more than one per cent higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to boost the eurozone's ailing economy. The ECB will buy 60 billion euros ($A85 billion) worth of private and public sector bonds per month between ...