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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... first half results and Ruralco Holdings Ltd holds its annual general meeting. The Australian share market rose strongly on Friday following a solid lead from Wall Street, higher prices for base metals, and investors searching for high-yielding stocks. ...

Valad splurges $138m for debut purchase

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... purchase is the first investments made by the fund which raised $340 million in debt and equity in its first close last Friday. The fund has also exchanged contracts on five office buildings at Parkway Court, Oxford Business Park ($19.7 million) and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... dipped 44 cents to $36.36, while Rio Tinto lost $2.03 to $116.47 and bauxite miner Alumina fell seven cents to $5.21. On Friday, Rio Tinto announced a joint venture with the world's largest copper producer, CODELCO, to explore for copper in Chile. Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... parties. Australian financial markets were closed yesterday for the Australia Day public holiday, and will reopen today. On Friday, markets finished in the black for the third straight session. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 279.9 points, or ...

Market plunge drives record margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... there is some volatility you would get 100 or a maximum of 200 calls; last week we got up to around 500 on Wednesday and Friday, and to have two days in close proximity to each other with that number of margin calls is very unusual." Of the borrowers ...

City Pacific withdraws MFS offer

... two businesses. City Pacific said in ASX statement this morning that the group informed MFS chief Michael King late last Friday that "it intended to withdraw its merger proposal, while maintaining an interest in either the business or assets of the MFS ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
The Australian stock market was sharply lower at noon, dragged down by losses on Wall Street on Friday caused by lingering recession fears. At 1212 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was down 103.6 points to 5,643.7 and the All Ordinaries had shed 104.4 points ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... unaffordable housing markets. Underlying sentiment within a speech delivered by RBA's governor Glenn Stevens in London last Friday suggests the bias remains on interest rates going up. Steven's decision will be impacted by recent independent increases ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... Investments Ltd releases its half year results. The Australian stock market closed in the red for the tenth session in a row on Friday, a 17-year first, as nervous investors dumped industrial stocks, although the decline was pared by a late surge in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... Japanese financial markets were closed for a public holiday, Coming of Age Day. The markets will reopen on Tuesday. On Friday, the Nikkei closed at 14,110.79. HONG KONG - Stocks fell with mobile phone maker Foxconn, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd ...