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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... anticipation of further weakness in our dollar," he said. "They're mainly in the top 100 stocks. The banking sector, the resource sector: they're the main two sectors that they focus on and we've seen that weakness across the board there." The big four ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... Jones Day is to host a seminar in Sydney on Australia's foreign anti-bribery legislation and its relevance to the resource sector, while Wesfarmers is expected to release its second quarter sales results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed higher ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... Wednesday provided a bullish outlook for China. "We've had some numbers out from Rio that's really propelling the resource sector, the numbers were slightly better than expected and more importantly they've raised the dividend which is going to put pressure ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Australian shares opened stronger, buoyed by overnight leads and hopes the European Central Bank will take action soon to relieve the euro zone debt crisis. At 1015 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.6 points, or 0.15 per cent ...

Lazard faces losses on Hastie collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
Private equity firm Lazard is among the Hastie Group creditors facing potential losses, after the engineering firm yesterday entered voluntary administration and operations were suspended. Lazard invested in the firm last year as part of a $160 million ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... points at 4,041, with 16,810 contracts traded. "It was a positive opening, but it looks like the banks and the resource sector are the ones that have rolled over, and energy too," Burrell Stockbroking adviser Jamie Elgar said. The early gains may have ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... the government's determination to return the federal budget to surplus" (AFR) and not the weakness in the non-resource sector of the economy and below target inflation. If that's the case Wayne, why not deliver an even bigger surplus by slashing fiscal ...

ASX bolsters mid to small caps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... listed companies which fall into the definition of 'mid to small caps', more than half are operating in WA in the resource sector. The ASX had been undertaking a consultation process on a reporting framework specifically for mining, oil and gas companies ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... assessment last month that growth is "somewhat below trend" and recent indicators showing a softening in the non-resource sector of the economy and still uncertain global conditions. Only yesterday, we got proof of this. The AIG performance of manufacturing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
The Australian share market has extended its gains from early trade as investors return to equities on renewed optimism a solution is near at hand on the eurozone debt crisis. The local bourse opened more than one per cent higher on Thursday after Wall ...