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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... steel maker deemed its latest offer too low. Arrium shares were down nine cents, or 11.5 per cent, at 69.5 cents. Whitehaven Coal holds its annual general meeting on Thursday, and major shareholder Nathan Tinkler is expected to oppose the re-election ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... Group/Pricewaterhouse's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for October. In equities news, GUD Holdings and Whitehaven Coal are due to hold annual general meetings. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed higher despite low volumes of trading ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... wave of internal reforms including the move towards lower carbon emissions that would cruel demand for Australian thermal coal. The third was the current "cyclical" downturn that was likely to continue." "It's an accident they're coming all at once ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... Reserve Bank of Australia releases its financial aggregates for August. In equities news, managing director of Rio Tinto Coal Australia Bill Champion is scheduled to deliver a speech at Griffith University. NEW YORK - Wall Street posted its first gain ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... water market at far higher rates than domestic funds. While Tyndall AM remains impartial on the venture, China-owned Shenhua Coal's investment in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with a need to own water to service mining operations, said Lourey.

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
In a major speech on military policy to the Returned Services League national conference this morning, opposition leader Tony Abbott vowed to index military retirement pensions if elected next year. "An incoming coalition government would finally offer ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... profit to $43.3 million. Washington H Soul Pattinson (WHSP), which owns 44.5 per cent of Brickworks plus a major stake on coal miner New Hope, posted a 60 per cent fall in full year net profit to $143 million. Brickworks shares were down four cents at ...

New hedge fund rules for post-GFC environment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... Capital in August 2007 and a number of BNP-sponsored hedge funds in Europe in September. Whether they were 'canaries in the coal mine' or real precipitators of the crisis, hedge funds had at the very least not fulfilled a role as price moderators in ...

Peak in investment spend to herald lower growth: Barclays economist

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... eventually kick-in later this year, and lead to a notional pick-up in demand. "Commodity prices, notably on iron ore and coal are a barometer on China and should provide a pretty good reading on what's going on," says Davies. Over the short-term, Davies ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... with news it had secured a new $US4.5 billion ($A4.31 billion) credit facility from Credit Suisse and JP Morgan. Thermal coal miner New Hope was 37 cents richer at $4.55 as it said it was reviewing the pace at which it is developing new projects because ...