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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket was more than 1% higher at noon following gains on US and European markets and strong performances from resource and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 52.8 points, or 1.29 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat as investors look for signs of a solution in Europe on the last trading day of the financial year. At 1015 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.5 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,038.3, while ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower. At 0635 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down seven points at 4,013. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is set to release May's financial ...

PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Bagan Capital is already spreading the word among institutional investors and high-net worth individuals about its newest fund dedicated entirely to the former pariah state of Myanmar. With a local securities exchange ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
The Australian share market is trading lower after investors felt some disappointment over the latest moves by the US central bank to boost the US economy. The US Federal Reserve has extended a program that aims to encourage borrowing and spending by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... at $3.18 after it won a $71.7 million contract to install power lines and substations at BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Media publisher Fairfax was 3.5 cents lower at 61.5 cents, 24 hours after it announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street overnight and a mixed performance on European bourses after disappointing US retail sales data and concern remaining over the euro zone. At 0813 AEST on Thursday, the June ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
The Australian share market has opened flat with strength in materials stocks offsetting weakness across the financials sector after a disappointing trading session on Wall Street. At 1011 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.4 points ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
A CSIRO researcher has questioned where Australia's economic output will come from once the commodities boom ends. "We are a highly exposed market because three things that we make, make up 40% of our exports," said Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, principal scientist ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher after mixed results on Wall Street overnight. At 0756 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,017. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds ...