The sharemarket finished more than 0.4 per cent higher following a wave of investor enthusiasm in Japan and the US. CommSec market analyst Juliette Saly said local shares finished strongly after a slow start as Japanese shares pushed ...
Tags: stocks, sharemarket, shares
THE Australian sharemarket closed higher, boosted by mining stocks after the release of a bumper trade report in China. IG Markets analyst Stan Shamu said the local bourse narrowly missed posting a fresh four-year high, despite a late ...
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2 per cent at 5109.2 after hitting a 4 1/2-year high of 5135.7 in early trading. Share trading value worth $5.2 billion slipped just below the 20-day moving average of $5.3bn. Asian markets were ...
Tags: benchmark, economic data, finance
The stockmarket traded marginally lower as disappointing trade figures pulled shares back from a modestly positive start. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the Australian market had opened slightly higher, but had descended ...
The Australian sharemarket has finished lower, despite some resilience in the resources and materials sector. Options XPress market analyst Ben Le Brun said the local market had bounced back in afternoon trade as investors looked ahead ...
Tags: Australian sharemarket, financial space, Australian economy
Australian miner Rio Tinto's mining operations contractor South Africa-based Eqstra Holdings has said that Rio Tinto should not have declared force majeure on coal exports from its Benga mine in Tete province, Mozambique since the flood ...
Tags: Rio Tinto, mine, Eqstra Holdings
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has suggested that the global miners have been manipulating the iron ore market by holding back cargos, artificially creating a supply shortage in the market, according to media ...
Tags: iron ore miners, iron ore, iron ore market
The sharemarket has shot up by more than 1.5 per cent at noon, with investors using yesterday's falls to lap up cheaper stocks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner describes it as a relief rally following Monday's decline. The ...
Tags: Stocks, sharemarket, ANZ
In the week ended March 4, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.6 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 20.8 percent ...
Tags: Coal exports, Coal, coal producing
The S&P/ASX200 is down 0.3 per cent as resources stocks including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Fortescue and Oil Search are down 1.2 per cent to 2.7 per cent on commodity weakness and with ex-dividend falls today worth about 11 index points. ...
The local sharemarket retreated from a 4 1/2-year high yesterday before last-minute budget talks at the White House aimed at avoiding $US85 billion ($83bn) of automatic US spending cuts, the so-called sequester, which were due to take ...
Tags: sharemarket, Shares, benchmark
The Australian sharemarket retreated from a four-and-a-half year high before last-minute budget talks at the White House aimed at avoiding $US85 billion of automatic spending cuts, the so-called sequester, due to start taking effect today ...
Australian stocks were lower early today after below-view Chinese manufacturing data, while Japanese shares took pause at the end of a violent week of trading. Chinese manufacturing data was the main data point today, with the official ...
Tags: sharemarket, shares, US dollar
Thelocal sharemarket fell sharply yesterday as an indecisive national election in Italy raised the prospect of another sell-off in European bond markets that could rekindle the continent's debt crisis. Italy was headed for a political ...
Tags: debt crisis, economy
The sharemarket rose yesterday as defensive and high-yield stocks had broad-based gains after stronger-than-expected German business confidence data brightened the eurozone economic outlook and US earnings reports beat expectations. The ...
Tags: earnings, stocks, sharemarket