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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 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... the US and Europe. "The market often does surprise us as it has today with fresh highs for the year," he said. "The materials and energy sectors are all up and are leading the market higher." Overall, energy stocks were 0.88 per cent higher and the materials ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Mosaic, said weak demand from China and India have hurt its profits. Mosaic, Dupont and stocks of other companies in the materials industry fell. But utilities and health care stocks, where investors often retreat in a slow-growing economy, helped pull ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... battle... This has been going on for a few years." Weaker mining stocks were also weighing down the local market, with the materials sector down 0.94 per cent, on possible concerns about waning global growth. BHP Billiton shares were 22 cents weaker ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... IRESS data. Metals and minerals companies (down 1.04 per cent), consumer discretionary (down 0.94 per cent) and the materials sector (down 0.98 per cent) were also lower in early trade. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... leading the broader market higher at the start of the trading week, with metals and minerals stocks up 1.75 per cent and materials sector up 1.38 per cent, according to IRESS data. BHP had risen 75 cents, or 2.25 per cent, to $34.06, while Rio Tinto ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... at $32.61. Other sectors in positive territory at the open included metals and minerals stocks (up 2.53 per cent) and materials stocks (up 2.22 per cent). Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan the prospect of the US Federal Reserve announcing ...