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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas overnight, with Wall Street up but base metals down in London. But in Sydney, the futures index was up. At 0805 AEST, on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was up eleven ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has received mixed lead from Wall Street, with the Dow Jones index down 0.34 per cent, the blue chip S&P500 index barely changed and the Nasdaq technical index up slightly. But resources stocks may receive a boost from strong ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... raised its forecast for the price of aluminum, lifting shares of Alcoa Inc 6.6 per cent. Caterpillar Inc, a top maker of earth-moving equipment, also rose. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 130.43 points, or 1.02 per cent, to end at 12,876.31. The ...

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... where they can earn higher returns. "The markets were expecting this, so while the dollar has weakened it's been nothing earth shaking," said David Gilmore, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics in Essex, Connecticut. "There's some evidence that markets ...

Building green for the future

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... born by the building's developers. The result is a strong investment asset for investors and a contribution to slow the earth's deteriorating environment. "Green buildings are built to last longer. Research has shown that they have less tenants churn ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... to impose that here. We're concerned that if company directors can't comply with the current five day listing rule how on earth is there any hope that they can comply with a more stringent test?" he said. According to the research, there was no correlation ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... collapse in baby boomer birth rates. "We had discussed the challenges posed by our occupying the driest inhabited continent on earth, whose populated areas appear to be getting even drier, with poorly developed water markets and unsophisticated adaptation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... average ended flat, paring earlier losses as investors picked up shares of trading companies such as Mitsubishi Corp and earth-moving equipment maker Komatsu Ltd The benchmark Nikkei ended down 3.89 points at 13,622.56. The index rose 605.32 points for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in the black today, after both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 rose more than two per cent overnight, buoyed by the energy sector which benefited from a surge in oil prices. At 0734 AEST, the September Share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0815 AEST, the September share price index was down 12 points at 6376. In economic news today, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute will release its Indices of Economic Activity for May. In company news, Minara Resources ...