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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
The Australian stock exchange was stronger at noon, led by energy and mining stocks, while the banking sector rebounded after yesterday's losses. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 48.9 points higher, or 1.02 per cent to 4863.2, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
Australian markets have received a strong lead from Wall Street equities overnight, which finished almost 1.5 per cent higher. Oil, silver and gold were down, while copper was marginally higher. At 0757 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's September ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... Victorian public sector clients including the Emergency Services & State Super, Victorian WorkCover Authority, and the Transport Accident Commission.

Rate cut? maybe not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... expansion in the first. Capital investment in 'other selected industries', which include wholesale, retail, construction, transport & storage, property & business services and finance & insurance, increased by 7.3 per cent, more than reversing the 2 ...

Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
... first quarter was dragged down by a 6.4 per cent drop in other selected industries - wholesale, retail, construction, transport & storage, property & business services, finance & insurance - and a 0.6 per cent fall in manufacturing. Higher commodity ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... aluminium all down between three and four per cent. Mr Lewis said there were some green patches in the financial and transport sectors. "We're seeing a bit of portfolio shifting out of the resources and into the financial as investors chase the potentially ...

Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... Fahy. "There will be massive investment in electricity generation primarily around brown coal and changes to public transport infrastructure."

Oil prices force end to corporate profit boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... higher debt servicing costs (due to the associated rise in interest rates) and increased operating costs (including transport and production costs)," he said. This means corporate profits have passed their peak and the outlook for share price growth ...

Resources boom has only just begun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
Anyone needing convincing that the resources and commodities boom only has years to run should listen to Rio Tinto describe the insatiable worldwide demand for minerals. Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto, speaking at yesterday's Australia-Israel ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... increased powers to drive priorities, develop more competitive national markets in areas such as water, electricity and transport and ensure market-based pricing of scarce resources such as water. In recognition of the changing capital markets, the reported ...