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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... miners were up, with BHP gaining $2.02 to $34.46, while Rio Tinto was up $4.04 cents, or 4.98 per cent, to $85.20. BlueScope Steel Ltd today announced it had doubled its annual net profit, and said the forecast for global steel demand was positive. In ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... AEST, the September Share Price Index was up 190 points at 5778 on the Sydney futures exchange. On the markets, BlueScope Steel Ltd and the website Seek Ltd will deliver annual results, while QBE Insurance Ltd will deliver interim results. In Auckland ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... infrastructure projects. We've had serious customer complaints from our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel, who spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly supply bottlenecks ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... nearly flat after hitting its lowest in nearly four months as a stronger yen weighed on Canon and other exporters, while steel shares supported the market on robust profitability. The Nikkei added 0.03 per cent, or 5.49 points, to end at 17,289.30. HONG ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... points to end at 18,002.03. HONG KONG - Hong Kong-listed China stocks increased by 1.2 per cent with outlooks for higher steel prices driving Angang Steel up and positive profit guidance triggering a rally in the insurance sector, which moved to an all-time ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... outstanding, but investors are certainly comfortable with it and they're happy to move into the sector." Speculation that BlueScope Steel is takeover target also pushed the bourse higher, Mr Anderson said, as did a strong lead from Wall Street. At 1216 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... 5957.16 points, dropping 160.80 points since last weekend. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei nudged just slightly ahead by 0.23 per cent. Steel shares including Nippon Steel did especially well, gaining on the back of solid output data. However, price war fears ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... as expectations of consolidation jacked up consumer finance shares while earnings hopes lifted Chugai Pharmaceutical and steel stocks. The Nikkei ended up 100.99 points at 18,116.57. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rebounded 0.8 per cent as investors bid ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Beattie to sort out the bottlenecks that are strangling the flow of resources to and from our ports. South Korea's biggest steel maker has already threatened to vote with its feet and take its business elsewhere if Australia fails to reinvest some of ...

Four international funds added to Zenith recommended list

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... portfolios from an Australian base, he said, and had achieved "impressive results in their own right." Others, such as Baker Steel (the underlying manager of the Select Gold Fund) and Schroders have a significant presence in Australia to complement offshore ...