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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... last three years. Resources stocks have dragged the Australian market down following falls in most commodity prices overnight. BHP Billiton is 54 cents, or 1.65 per cent, weaker at $32.16, Rio Tinto has given up 59 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $55.21 and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after a mediocre report on US economic growth and the latest batch of uneven corporate earnings reports. At 0733 AEST on Monday, the June share price ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong rises on international markets overnight as traders focused on corporate earnings and brushed aside weaker-than-expected economic data out of Germany and China. At 0744 AEST on Wednesday, the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... and Oil Search had climbed 21.5 cents to $7.075. Rio Tinto told shareholders at its annual general meeting in London overnight it was a mistake to purchase aluminium maker Alcan six years ago and as a result the company was now more likely to favour ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... The Australian share market has opened firmer after markets in the United States pushed to new highs. On Wall Street overnight, investors were buoyed by a government report pointing to lower-than-expected jobless claims. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened flat despite a lift in overseas markets overnight. Early trading was marked by a massive 30 per cent drop in the shares of troubled surfwear retailer Billabong. Billabong said after the market had closed on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... ended talks with Hanlong Mining after the Chinese company ran into problems financing a $1.3 billion takeover deal. Overnight on Wall Street, stocks closed higher in anticipation of company earnings season, which kicks off this week. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

No promises, promises for Kuroda

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... cent, to $18.87. Energy stocks and the metals and minerals sectors were also deep in negative territory. During the overnight offshore session, futures contact prices for gold reached a nine-month low, while platinum prices were at their weakest level ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the close) overnight. Asia beware when your markets open today. But short of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and its virgin governor Haruhiko Kuroda announcing ...