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Market Wrap - late AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... plus October's new motor vehicle sales data. National turnover was 253.6 million securities worth $178.3 million, with 258 stocks up, 262 down and 273 unchanged.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after a mixed lead from the US where stocks gave up early gains on firm bank earnings and a rise in consumer confidence on Friday with worries about the new earnings season clouding optimism. At 0745 AEDT ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat after mixed leads from Wall Street and European markets. At 1021 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 3.7 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,487.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 4.2 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... 4,483.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 6.7 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 4,505.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed little changed after a solid rally sparked by surprisingly good data on weekly jobless claims fizzled out, in part ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australian stocks are half a per cent weaker, with declines in the materials and financial sectors leading the broader market lower. At 1029 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.5 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 4,466.2 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... 4,490.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 14.7 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 4,511.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed lower amid investor caution after Alcoa said that China's economic slowdown was hitting aluminum consumption and ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... are all adjusting to the changing economic cycle, he added. "Within resources, there is a great variation between energy stocks and mining stocks, with the latter running on exceptionally low PEs. For example, RIO is trading on a PE of 8 times, which ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... global economic growth. Gold was the worst-performing sector, falling 1.48 per cent, according to IRESS data. Industrial stocks (down 0.72 per cent) and consumer discretionary stocks (down 0.86 per cent) were also in negative territory. On a positive ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... cent, at 4,505.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 24.6 points, or 0.55 per cent, to 4,526.6. NEW YORK - US stocks have skidded after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecasts and investors braced ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... for the year," he said. "The materials and energy sectors are all up and are leading the market higher." Overall, energy stocks were 0.88 per cent higher and the materials sector, led by higher overnight iron ore prices, was up 0.68 per cent. The mining ...