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AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... ore price," he said. "But exports were better - that gives reason for hope." At 1018 in the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was 15 cents higher at $36.82, Rio Tinto added 42 cents to $63.05, and Fortescue Metals dipped three cents to $4.14. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... stocks such as the banking and healthcare sectors. The major miners were all down on the back of lower iron ore prices as BHP Billiton dropped 39 cents to $36.49, Rio Tinto slid 83 cents to $62.23 and Fortescue fell 6.5 cents to $4.07. Grocerer Woolworths ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... more than 0.8 per cent down. The big miners fell as the iron ore price hit $US88 a tonne and was close to five year lows. BHP Billiton had lost 19 cents to $37.14, Rio Tinto shed 74 cents to $63.39 and Fortescue Metals had lost 11 cents to $4.20. Qantas ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... ex-dividend stocks will be a loss of 13 index points. Resource stocks were mostly up despite iron ore prices reaching two year lows. BHP rose five cents to $37.27 and Rio Tinto climbed 23 cents to $64.34 but Fortescue bucked the trend and fell two cents ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... prices. "I think that drag will overwhelm this opening positive impulse and we're likely to finish in negative territory today." BHP Billiton dropped 14 cents to $37.11, Rio Tinto dumped 55 cents to $63.99, Fortescue Metals dipped 1.5 cents to $4.325 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... lifting 24 cents to $80.85 and Westpac up 13 cents to $35.02. The big resource players continued their recent trend of losses. BHP Billiton dropped 37 cents to $37.43, Rio Tinto shed 56 cents to $64.84 and Fortescue Metals was three cents weaker at $ ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... able to lift its dividend thanks to an influx of cash from the massive PNG LNG project. Elsewhere in the resources sector, BHP Billiton fell 21 cents to $37.83, while Rio Tinto fell 28 cents to $65.32 and Fortescue Metals lost six cents to $4.42. Among ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... year. Its shares had added 55 cents at $9.27. The resources sector was impacted by the weaker Chinese manufacturing data, with BHP Billiton shedding most of its earlier gains to be up 13.5 cents at $38.265, Rio Tinto down five cents at $65.93 and Fortescue ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... six-year high as a positive investor response to a generous payout from Coles owner Wesfarmers outweighed a sharp fall in BHP Billiton shares. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.8 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 5,634.6 points, according to preliminary ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
The largest fall by BHP shares in five months is dragging the share market lower. After confirming plans to offload its aluminium, manganese, nickel and silver assets into a new company, BHP shares fell heavily, dropping $1.56, or 3.9 per cent, to $38.12 ...