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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... chance of being up here in Australia," Mr Smith said. A senior Rio executive on Tuesday said the company expected the iron ore price to fall in 2013. The two big miners were also subject to a number of analysts' downgrades during the overnight session. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... Fitzgerald, Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden and BC Iron managing director Mike Young at slated to speak at the Global Iron Ore and Steel Conference. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed lower for a second straight day after giving up ...

Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... wealthiest billionaires, coming in at number 36. Forbes estimated her wealth at $17 billion and suggested that lower iron ore prices may have knocked a billion off her net worth. Glencore's Ivan Glasenberg was the next highest-ranked Australian and 175th ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... up 36 cents. Rio Tinto also climbed 57 cents to $66.93, and Fortescue Metals was up 8.5 cents to $4.765. "We're seeing iron ore prices moving up once again so that's been a positive for that space," said Julia Lee, equities analyst at Bell Direct. "The ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... informing the broader mining space." BHP Billiton said its Western Australia operations produced 81.96 million tonnes of iron ore in the six months to December 31, up two per cent on the same period in the previous year. In the three months to December ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... "He's been with the company for a very long time. He started at the company in 1991 and he has been in control of their iron ore department for a very long time and has done very well under tricky and trying conditions." Mr Lucas said improved employment ...

Above trend growth bodes well for commodities

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013
... 2011, the prices in Australia's commodity basket are still 270% above their year 2000 level. As a case in point, the iron ore price has picked up sharply to be over US$150 a tonne - up 78% since its September 2012 low. Assuming that rising commodity ...

Commodities boom over: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... growth for most of the 2003-2008 periods, is now weaker and more cyclical." Aluminum, nickel, zinc, natural gas, oil, iron ore, hard coking coal and thermal coal are well off their highs while soft commodities like cotton and wheat have also fallen dramatically. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... business to Canada's Harry Winston Diamond for $US500 million ($A481.58 million). Rio Tinto gained 57 cents to $58.24 while iron ore miner Fortescue Metals was three cents better at $4 ahead of its Annual General Meeting in Perth. Also holding AGMs on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... open," he said. "The interest in a significant recovery in the US has helped, as has movement in base metal prices." Iron ore prices were up $US1 to $US120 overnight. BHP Billiton shares gained 69 cents to $34.51 at open, Rio Tinto was $1.40 higher at ...