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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... best-performing sector at the open, rising 1.54 per cent, according to IRESS data. The metals and minerals (up 0.8 per cent) and materials (0.65 per cent) sectors also opened on an upbeat note. In percentage terms, gold miner Newcrest was the best-performing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... was down 1.5 cents at $2.555. Metals and minerals stocks were down 1.29 per cent, according to IRESS data, while the materials sector - a big component of the local bourse - was down 0.35 per cent. Wall Street closed flat with the Dow 0.06 per cent lower ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... stocks were the best-performing sector on the market at the open, rising 1.29 per cent, according to IRESS data. The materials sector - a big component of the local bourse - was up 1.1 per cent. Wall Street closed firmer as US markets cheered upbeat ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... worst-performing sector at the open, falling 1.77 per cent, according to IRESS data. Australia's two big market sectors, materials and financials, were down 1.71 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively. ANZ was down $1.10, or 4.31 per cent, at $24.41 ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... DAX 30 gained 0.10 per cent to 7,200.23 points and in Paris the CAC 40 fell by 0.44 per cent to 3,411.53. Locally the materials sector opened 0.31 per cent higher and the financials sector was up 0.25 per cent. In equities news, Macquarie Group increased ...

Market wrap - late AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... $US13.66 from Tuesday's local close of $US1,723.36 per ounce. Metals and minerals stocks (down 1.57 per cent) and the materials sector (down 1.51 per cent) had also commenced trading in red figures. RBS Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... purchase. Americans bought cars too - another item of discretion - up 1.3% last month from up 1.8% in August and building materials and garden equipments (up 1.1%). Oh yeah right, part of the increase in retail spending could be attributed to the 2.5% ...

Market Wrap - late AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... trade figures released on the weekend. But he said it had not led to gains for the mining giants. "Surprisingly the materials are one of the weaker sectors," he said. "I would have thought the materials would have got a bit of a boost from the Chinese ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australian stocks are half a per cent weaker, with declines in the materials and financial sectors leading the broader market lower. At 1029 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.5 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 4,466.2 points ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... from rural areas to the city, they require accommodation, transport, and hospitals. To build these, countries need raw materials and Australia is a primary provider of these, namely iron ore, he said, speaking at a roundtable with representatives from ...