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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon on Wednesday, with strong profit results driving higher share prices. But the market was weighed down by losses in BHP Billiton shares. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.6 ...

DKN prepares for big reforms ahead

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... overall positive affect on the company and its advisors. DKN's share prices rose by 0.02 cents after the announcement to the ASX to 0.60 cents.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with equities markets generally strong and metals and oil all trading higher, too. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Count posts double digit profits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... tax to $24 million for the year ending 30 June, and it expects its double-digit growth to continue this financial year. In ASX statements released today, Count Financial announced $23.99 million in NPAT to the end of June, an increase of nearly 25 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
The Australian share market edged into positive territory in intra-day trading, buoyed by the industrials sector and some positive corporate earnings results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.9 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 4,458.4 ...

Capital raisings shun small investors: ISS

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... offerings, new ISS Governance Services research show. The review found that nearly half of the $98.94 billion raised by S&P ASX/200 companies between January 2008 and December 2009 was placed directly with existing shareholders specially selected by ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overnight trade offshore. Wall Street indices were flat to marginally higher, whilst metals were higher, but oil was slightly lower. At 0739 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The Australian share market was down in intra-day trading by noon, but gained off its lows of the session, buoyed by earnings results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 35.6 points lower, or 0.8 per cent, at 4,424.0 points, while the ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... landscape. According to research by Rainmaker, ETF assets in Australia totaled $3.3 billion at the end of March, compared to an ASX stock market capitalisation of about $1.3 trillion. But, as Fuhr pointed out, "many institutional investors in Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The Australian share market has received overall negative leads from offshore trading over the weekend. Wall Street indices were slightly lower, and most metals and oil also were down. European markets were middling. At 0721 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...