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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
The Australian share market is flat, but the mining giants are bucking the trend to open in firmer territory. CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said rising commodity prices since the end of last week, on the back of upbeat Chinese trade data, was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases the lending finance figures for June. In equities news, Newcrest Mining, UGL and JB Hi-Fi are due to post full year results, while GPT Group is expected to announce first half results and James ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... ago." Telstra shares opened six cents, or 1.17 per cent, weaker, at $5.07, following a 2.4 per cent rise on Thursday. But mining giant Rio Tinto continued to perform well, adding 72 cents, or 1.21 per cent, to $60.20 a day after announcing a 71 per cent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force figures for July. Wang Jiahua, executive vice chairman of China Mining Association, is scheduled to speak at the Melbourne Mining Club. In equities news, Rio Tinto and Telstra are expected to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... 5,105.6 after Australia's central bank cut interest rates to a new record low to try to spur growth as the decades-long mining boom cools down. Seoul dropped 0.50 per cent, or 9.60 points, to close at 1,906.62 while Shanghai slipped 0.18 per cent in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... essentially what everyone is waiting for." As earnings season gets into full swing, Ms Saly said Downer EDI had gotten the mining sector off to a great start after the engineering company posted a net profit of $204 million for the 2012/13 financial ...

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

Gina Rinehart offers olive branch

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has written to her two children, making an offer which she hopes will bring their litigation to an end, a court has heard. Ms Rinehart's barrister, David Russell QC, told the Supreme Court on Monday that the "open letter" ...

Smokers' cough up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013

The recession we are promised to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013