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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... its growth forecasts for the global economy to four per cent for 2011 and 2012, and warned of a return to recession if Western leaders fail to get their economies back on track. "It is a bit of a patchy market today, there's more sectors up than there ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... announcing its subsidiary Thiess had won a $100 million contract with Fortescue Metals for works on an iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,782.3 per fine ounce, down $US41.40 from $US1,823.70 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... giant Rio Tinto will invest $US833 million ($A813.00 million) in infrastructure to help it increase iron ore production in Western Australia's Pilbara region. SGT - SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD - up three cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $2.41 Optus will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... announced it would invest $US833 million ($A813.00 million) in infrastructure to help it increase iron ore production in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Fellow miner BHP Billiton rose 73 cents, or two per cent, to $37.63. Department store owner Myer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... in more than a month with a more than three per cent plunge on Friday, as worries about slowing growth prospects in the Western world triggered an unrelenting wave of risk reduction. Losses piled up across the base metals complex, with aluminum futures ...

Plan B names new CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... meeting shareholders, customers and stakeholder groups in Plan B before developing a new growth strategy for the group. The Western Australian-based firm has built a strong heritage in the western states, said Black, but has already begun implementing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... product for June quarter and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens delivers a luncheon speech to the Western Australian Chambers of Commerce and Minerals and Energy luncheon. The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association ...

WA adviser receives jail sentence and reparations

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
A Western Australian man has been sentenced to over three years in jail by the Perth District Court, in a case brought by ASIC. A reparation order of $1.7 million was also made. On 26 September 2008, ASIC suspended the Australian financial services ...

IFM hits back at claims it plays politics with super fund money

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... Government grant from the $1.5 billion Solar Flagships program to build a solar power project at the remote town of Moree in western NSW. The project was also given $120 million by the NSW Government. Last month the Australian Institute of Chartered ...

AMP Capital wins UK pension fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011