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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... per ounce, up $US3.25 from Friday's local close of $US1,732.95 per ounce. The big miners were firmer at noon - BHP had advanced 62 cents to $35.82 and Rio Tinto was up $1.20 at $67.77. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said the market has been ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... points at 4,241 points, with 6,079 contracts traded. Gold stocks opened up 0.88 per cent, while the telecoms sector had advanced 0.7 per cent, according to IRESS data. On the minus side, metals and minerals companies were 0.69 per cent weaker and the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... cent at 5,901.07 points. In Paris, the CAC-40 index jumped 1.52 per cent to 3,427.92 points and in Frankfurt the DAX 30 advanced 1.67 per cent to 6,766.67 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mixed ahead of the release of US jobs data. Investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... per cent, or 42.1 points, to 4,267.8 and Seoul was 1.26 per cent higher, putting on 25.06 points to 1,984.30. Hong Kong advanced 2.00 per cent, or 406.08 points, to 20,739.45 and Shanghai climbed 1.96 per cent, or 44.18 points, to 2,312.56. WELLINGTON ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... slowed to 8.9% in the December quarter from 9.1% in the previous three months. China being China, perhaps it did know in advanced. But who cares? At least they acted on it - unlike that other region in the globe that's appears to be holding summits almost ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... and Rio Tinto had added $1.49 to $69.84. Among the major banks, Westpac was up 24 cents at $21.54, Commonwealth Bank advanced 64 cents to $51.64, ANZ lifted 26 cents to $21.68 and National Australia bank found 15 cents at $24.35. Among other stocks ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... it would fall below 7.7% of GDP in 2014-15. "This is less than a tenth of the average net debt position of the major advanced economies, which is expected to reach 92.9 per cent of GDP in 2016," he said. "The Government's record of fiscal discipline ...

HK tops US as most advanced financial economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... IPO activity and growing insurance sector. The UK has meantime held its ranking as far and away the most financially advanced European nation, indirectly making a mockery of reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to vetoe to changes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... might be dragged down by their close connections to the unstable European financial system. LONDON - European stocks advanced and bond yields fell after France and Germany announced eurozone reform proposals and Italy fresh austerity measures at the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Exchanges was up 2.1 per cent at HK$132.60 due to improved trading volume this month, while banking heavyweight HSBC advanced 1.6 per cent to HK$61.60. Edible oil producer Hop Hing jumped 59.1 per cent to HK$0.70, after announcing on Thursday that it ...