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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed up more than one-and-a-half per cent. BRISBANE - Coal seam gas (CSG) companies will pay for the Queensland Water Commission (QWC) to manage the state's groundwater supplies with ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... on Monday, Australia's largest rail freight operator QR National rose two cents to $3.28 after it struck a deal with eight coal companies to build a $900 million rail line called the Wiggins Island Rail Project, to carry coal to a new terminal at Gladstone. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Bank of Austrlaia expected to take up $10 million of the issue amount. In equities news, Premier Investments and Cockatoo Coal both post full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday pared back earlier gains to close slightly higher, buoyed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... performing stock on the S&P/ASX20, having climbed 3.21 per cent, or 80 cents, to $25.69. Making news on Tuesday, Macarthur Coal advised its shareholders to accept a revised, $4.8 billion joint takeover offer by the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal ...

Politicians spar over future of superannuation guarantee

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
Politics flared today on the proposed increase in the superannuation guarantee with each side remaining entrenched in their positions. Minister for Superannuation Bill Shorten called on the Coalition to support the lifting of the superannuation guarantee ...

China demand for Australian resources to fall: JP Morgan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... economy, she wrote. About 22% of Australia's exports went to China last year, Ulrich said, with iron ore the biggest followed by coal, copper and natural gas. Ulrich said 75% of China's power is generated by coal. The Asian giant uses that energy to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... looked okay, so JB Hi-Fi is bucking the trend in the retail space," Ms Saly said. JB Hi-Fi shares were up 12 cents at $14.47. Coal and Allied shares soared after its largest shareholders, mining giant Rio Tinto and Japan's Mitsubishi Development, made ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... carbon tax, calling the tax of "no gain". ATIA includes the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Australian Coal Association, Australian Retailers Association, Housing Industry Association, Manufacturing Australia and the Minerals Council ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... forecasts thanks to a poorer outlook for economic growth. He pointed to the high Australian dollar, the slow resumption of coal exporting following the Queensland floods and the weak housing market. On a macro scale, worries about Europe and Italy in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Resources, up 85 cents at $18.61, Paladin Energy had added 12 cents to $2.74 and Atlas Iron was up 17 cents at $4.22. Macarthur Coal shares were up 23 cents at $15.78 after it told shareholders to take no action after Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal ...