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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market was stronger at noon on the back of positive gains in the finance sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 12.5 points higher at 6672.4 while the all ordinaries had put on 7.5 points to 6675.1. On the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... company Brickworks Ltd will report its full year results and AMCIL will hold its annual general meeting. The Australian stock market closed mixed yesterday, with losses from the big miners weighing heavily on the bourse. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
... Metals Ltd general meeting is due. Beadall Resources Ltd is to list on Australian stock exchange. The Australian stock market continued its record run yesterday, underpinned by solid gains from major miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... with this view and supportive of a higher AUD. Indeed, recent rises in commodity prices have propelled Australia's stock market to a record high, the ASX200 rising above the previous high hit on July 24 before the freezing in credit markets." The RBA's ...

Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
... on the planet. Our economy is the fifteenth biggest in the world and our economic growth is the tenth fastest. Our stock market is the second biggest in the region after Japan's and we have the highest proportion of floating stock compared to any of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
The Australian stock market has been buoyed by a big cut in interest rates in the United States which has helped ease fears that the US economy could slip into recession. In early trading today, the Australian stock market had lifted by more than two ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... survey for August. The Manpower employment survey for the last quarter of calendar 2007 also is released. On the stock market, Symbion Health Ltd holds its scheme meeting on a takeover proposal from Healthscope Ltd, and an information meeting will be ...

Return of the 'R' word

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
The Aussie market today can expect more bruises, as it seems that no sooner do the bandages come off that the markets cop another battering from somewhere else. US stock markets were mauled again on Friday by more bad news, this time from a surprise ...

Super fund members want a safe bet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... at just 7 per cent. Quadrant said the latest US sub-prime mortgage market crisis and its effect on the Australian stock market had raised concern among its super fund members. Wayne Davy, chief executive of Quadrant, said, "Sub-prime mortgages in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... economic news today, ABS labour force data for August are released as is the SEEK employment index. The Australian stock market closed in negative territory yesterday, with falls in the finance sector dragging the market into the red. At the close, the ...