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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... were 0.88 per cent higher and the materials sector, led by higher overnight iron ore prices, was up 0.68 per cent. The mining giants all posted gains. BHP Billiton was up 29.5 cents to $33.54, Fortescue was 15 cents higher to $3.86 and Rio Tinto added ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... economist Su-Lin Ong, Colonial First State's Head of Investment Markets Research Stephen Halmarick. In equities news, Victory Mining Ltd is due to list on the ASX and Collins Foods holds its annual general meeting in Brisbane. In Australia, the market ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Australia, the market on Friday posted gains for a seventh consecutive day but unlike the rest of the week was led by cyclical mining stocks instead of high yielding banks. At the close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 42 points, or 0.94 ...

Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... an overall sector perspective the results season largely reinforced our key positions. We remain underweight metals and mining, insurance and telecoms. By contrast to our position on resources we are overweight energy. "We are also overweight transport ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... said. As well as its monthly board meeting, the RBA will also release its index of commodity prices for September. The mining giants and major banks all opened higher. BHP Billiton was up 29 cents to $33.41 and Rio Tinto added 39.5 cents to $53.75. ANZ ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... index advanced 0.98 per cent to 7,784.10 points. Sentiment was lifted in part by the announcement on Monday that Swiss mining group Xstrata and commodities giant Glencore had agreed new terms on a tie-up to create a company worth nearly $US70 billion ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... venture, China-owned Shenhua Coal's investment in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with a need to own water to service mining operations, said Lourey.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened lower after falls on Wall Street and losses for the mining giants. At 1015 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.6 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 4,352.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... firms that were excluded from the fund's portfolio include Freeport-McMoRan, KBR, Tokyo Electric Power Company and Zijin Mining Group. NZ Superannuation Fund said this decision were based on information from its specialist screening agency which identified ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... to see what happens next," he told AAP. "We're back to the old battle... This has been going on for a few years." Weaker mining stocks were also weighing down the local market, with the materials sector down 0.94 per cent, on possible concerns about ...