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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... "The supply-demand imbalance may favour back into the miners' court," IG chief market strategist Chris Weston said. BHP Billiton had gained 57.5 cents to $32.545, Rio Tinto was $1.28, or 2.2% higher, at $58.43 and Fortescue Metals had lifted 15.5 cents ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... until Tuesday to up its $1.4 billion takeover offer following a $1.6 billion rival bid from M2. As for the miners, BHP Billiton was flat at $32.04, Rio Tinto had lost 93 cents to $56.78 and Fortescue Metals had given up 18 cents, or 7.93%, to $2.09 after ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... ResMed dropped three cents to $8.10 and condom and glove maker Ansell was seven cents lower at $13.83. Mining giant BHP Billiton gained 25 cents to $32.67, but Rio Tinto dropped 24 cents to $58.55 while iron ore player Fortescue was down three cents ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... off that performance," CMC market analyst Michael McCarthy said. A 5% gain in the price of iron ore helped miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto push the materials sector and bring the key S&P/ASX200 index to a two-week high. McCarthy said the market also ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... free up banks to lend more by cutting reserve ratio requirements. He said mining stocks were also being helped by BHP Billiton's announcement this week that it will defer some port works, which investors hope will help ease the global supply glut for ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... resource stocks this morning with spot iron ore surging overnight," Quay Equities head of trading Tristan K'Nell said. BHP Billiton was up 59 cents at $30.86, Rio Tinto was up 88.5 cents at $56.085, and Fortescue Metals had gained 20.5 cents, or 10.8% ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... interest rate cut, but from today's data the RBA might take a bit of a conservative view and hold in May," he told AAP. BHP Billiton shares fell after it lifted full year iron ore guidance by two per cent to 250 million tonnes, although Mr K'Nell said ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... showed a 12 per cent fall in iron ore shipments during the March quarter, compared with the previous three months. BHP Billiton shares were up 65 cents, or 2.2 per cent, to $30.47 while Fortescue was down 1.2 cents to $1.878. Among the major banks, the ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... as investors take profits from recent gains and exercise caution due to concerns about Greece's debts. A fall in BHP Billiton's share price, despite an overnight rise in base metal prices, is a sign of profit taking after several days of gains, Patersons ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... retreated 65 cents to $38.91. A recovery in iron ore prices to above $US50 a tonne overnight boosted the big miners. BHP Billiton added 49 cents to $29.61, Rio Tinto gained $1.11 to $56.07, and Fortescue Metals firmed 3.75 cents to $1.8725. Gold and ...