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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today after a mixed lead from Wall Street. In London, base metals prices all were down. At 0807 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 38 points to 6446. Today ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Australian sharemarket remained in negative territory this morning, with the only bright spot miner Rio Tinto, which rebuffed a takeover proposal last week from fellow miner BHP Billiton. A lower market on Wall Street and patchy base metal prices ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, China's rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. Australia's employment growth was softer than expected in October, however Westpac's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower following a weak lead from Wall Street on Friday after investor worries intensified about bank troubles from the US housing crisis. At 0800 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
The Australian share market remained in positive territory at noon following last night's takeover bid by miner BHP Billiton for rival Rio Tinto. At 1219 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 37.9 points to 6559.5 while the All Ordinaries was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open trading higher this morning, with anticipated impact on the mining sector after BHP Billiton last night announced it had made a STG120 billion ($A272.05 billion) takeover bid for Rio Tinto. If successful ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
The Australian share market remained lower at noon, carrying on the morning's trend, which was triggered by steep Wall Street falls and lower base metal prices overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 161.8 points or 2.42 per cent ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
While the sub-prime mortgage monster continues gnawing away at financial stocks, oil is boiling towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to begin today's trade lower, with Wall Street down in afternoon trade and metal prices also down overnight. At 0819 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 138 points to 6549. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
Australian shares continued to trade in the black at noon, following a strong lead from the US overnight as oil prices rose to a record high of more than $US97 a barrel and gold hit a 27-year high. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 55.3 ...