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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... lows around midday, after the US Federal Reserve cut the discount rate. Strongest performing sectors were banks and commodities. Britain's FTSE 100 index finished 205.3 points higher to 6,064.2 points. Over the week, the index gained 25.9 points. FRANKFURT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... its biggest daily decline since March 2003, as intensified credit market fears fuelled a sell-off that hit banks and commodities hardest. The index ended 4.1 per cent, or 250.4 points lower at 5,858.9 points, breaking below the 6,000 level and hitting ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... the market." That meant looking at blue chip resource stocks, like BHP, he said. "There's long term belief in the commodities story: the demand for commodities will continue to increase, because there's only a finite amount of commodities in the ground." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... 1.44 per cent, to 2,547.33. LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares ended down 0.57 per cent after commodities weighed on the market, but M&A activity continued to provide some support. The FTSE 100 closed 35.2 points lower at 6,189.1 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... The world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, 36 cents lower at $36.64, but Rio Tinto had plummeted $1.50 to $91.58. In commodities, Alumina Ltd posted a nine per cent jump in first half net profit to $284 million and says world demand for alumina and aluminium ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... more than $40 billion in infrastructure projects. We've had serious customer complaints from our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel, who spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly ...

NZ bourse doubles earnings ahead of KiwiSaver

... new product areas," said the group in a statement. Besides the planned launch of a range of options, derivatives and commodities contracts, the Exchange's revenue base will also be bolstered by the proposed May 2008 introduction of a carbon trading scheme ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... commodity prices had not helped the dip. "There wasn't really anything to speak of in the form of positive support for commodities overnight and that in itself didn't really give a cushion for the index today," he said. "But realistically, the focus ...

Market wrap - midday

The Australian share market continued its poor start to the week, characterised by losses among the big commodities and banking stocks. The performance echoed that in the US, where stocks fell on Friday. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index ...

Economic round-up: Lead balloon lifts exports

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2007
... and higher prices paid for our metals, oil and gas continue to buoy our export trade. One surprising new star of the commodities boom sees the previously unpopular, and highly toxic, lead playing catch up with other metals. Lead's price has been ballooning ...

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