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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... opening. ANZ lost three cents to $25.35, Westpac gained 10 cents to $25.44 and Commonwealth Bank added 12 cents to $57.43. The mining giants were all higher. BHP Billiton gained 12 cents to $34.09, Fortescue added three cents to $4.13 and Rio Tinto was ...

Bank dividends under threat

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... additional levies to be mounted," he explained. "We saw that in Europe with the extra pressure put on the telecoms industry and mining, rent and resources tax on the commodities sector in Australia." Platypus Asset Management founder Don Williams said ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The financial services and insurance industries contribute more to percentage growth in the Australian economy than mining and natural resources, according to CommSec's Craig James. Sensing that delegates at the annual Association of Financial Advisers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... a bit unwarranted as Australian investors exercised a bit of caution ahead of the weekend," he said. Mr Shamu said the mining and energy sectors were posting the highest gains but trading could be volatile throughout the day as Hurricane Sandy threatened ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... general meetings while Peabody Energy chairman and chief executive Gregory Boyce is scheduled to address the Melbourne Mining Club. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed marginally higher on a day defensive stocks shone. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... first quarter sales results and Mirvac Group its first quarter update. Echo Entertainment, Suncorp Group, Amcor, Newcrest Mining and Suncorp Group are scheduled to hold annual general meetings. Crown chairman James Packer is scheduled to speak at a Australian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
The Australian market opened almost one per cent higher as rising iron ore prices led to strong opening gains for the mining giants. At 1020 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 40.4 points, or 0.89 per cent, at 4,568.6 points, while ...

Market Wrap - late AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... due to stronger than expected Chinese trade figures released on the weekend. But he said it had not led to gains for the mining giants. "Surprisingly the materials are one of the weaker sectors," he said. "I would have thought the materials would have ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... adjusting to the changing economic cycle, he added. "Within resources, there is a great variation between energy stocks and mining stocks, with the latter running on exceptionally low PEs. For example, RIO is trading on a PE of 8 times, which is incredibly ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... that our trade with Asia and China and Europe and the US declines. Woe to our terms of trade. Woe to the resources and mining capital expenditure plans and the employment they're meant to generate. Then there are my neighbours - three of them I exchanged ...