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Economics

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open flat on a negative US lead and rising commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0711 AEDT, the March share price index contract was unchanged at 6017.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
The Australian share market was at a new intraday high at noon, as it continued to thrive on corporate activity in spite of a mixed night of trading on Wall Street.

Managed funds count carbon emission costs

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
While many investors and companies await the results of the Federal Government's task group set up to investigate the potential effects of introducing a carbon trading scheme, some investment managers are taking the initiative and developing models to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Average weekly earnings data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released yesterday showed that in seasonally adjusted terms full-time adult ordinary time earnings rose by 0.7 per cent during the period from August to November last year.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly weaker on the back of a poor lead from the US. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0654 AEDT, the March share price index contract was down one point to 5992.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
Strong commodity prices continued to bolster the Australian share market to noon today, as brokers shrugged off a weak lead from the US. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 24.7 points higher at 5976.5, while the ordinaries index was up ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
The Labour Price Index released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday shows that in seasonally adjusted terms the overall growth to December last year from a year earlier was 4 per cent.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0700 AEDT, the March share price index contract was down six points to 5925.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
The Australian stock market remained lower at noon, dragged down by weakness in the resources sector following softer commodities prices. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 21.7 points down at 5967.6, while the all ordinaries index was ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed an 'On Hold' rating on BlackRock's global small cap funds and downgraded the Australian small companies funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia (CSAMA) after the departures of their small cap portfolio ...