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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... expected to post full year results and Macquarie Group is slated to release half year results. Echo Entertainment, Newcrest Mining and Hills have annual general meetings scheduled. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed higher as the big banks resumed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... grand scheme of things we are seeing just a modest pullback this morning," Mr Daghlian said. "Yesterday, was a bad day for mining stocks, so there were already losses flowing through the resource space. So, perhaps that's why they're not doing as badly ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... growth at all in real GDP per person over the following 20 years." Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, I thought to myself... data mining are we? After all these are just two countries. But then I remembered the rage that was going on back in the early 1980's (when ...

Cbus sacks alleged leaker, plans governance review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Cbus employee allegedly responsible for leaking member information to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has been sacked, according to Cbus chief executive David Atkin. Appearing at a hearing for the Royal Commission into ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... Santos rose 14 cents, or 1.09 per cent, to $12.94, while Woodside Petroleum gained 27 cents, or 0.68 per cent, to $39.95. Mining giant BHP Billiton climbed 37 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $34.12, after announcing a strong production result and expectations ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... analyst Leanne Jones said. However, she said, Chinese data out later on Tuesday could either boost or weaken stocks in the mining-related materials sector. "The positive leads from Wall Street and a pickup in iron ore and gold prices have helped our ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... August. "...more of the sort of 'animal spirits' needed to support an expansion of the stock of existing assets (outside the mining sector), not just a re-pricing of existing assets." This is the same observation that the panel of experts lamented over. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... merchandise imports data. And, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out. In equities news, Newcrest Mining is slated to post its quarterly production report, Southern Cross Austereo a and Bradken have annual general meetings, while ...

OneVentures Innovation and Growth fund raises $60m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... growth technology-based companies in Australia. These ventures will increasingly fill the void left by manufacturing and mining as traditional drivers of economic growth and job creation. "OneVentures is intent on supporting innovation beyond the start-up ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... markets follow the downward trajectory of US and European markets. Weaker commodity prices, apart from gold, are kicking the mining-related materials sector. Bargain hunters are also absent, OptionsXpress analyst Ben Le Brun says. "We've got all sectors ...