Australian billionaire Ms Gina Rinehart's closely held Hancock Prospecting Pty posted a 74%jump in profit in 2011 as iron ore sales and royalties surged According to financial statements filed with Australian regulators,profit in the 12 ...
The sharemarket closed higher for a second day yesterday, buoyed by a last-minute budget deal in the US that drove global equities and commodity prices sharply higher on Wednesday night. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finished up 0.7 per cent ...
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The "stubbornly high" level of the dollar strengthens the case that the Reserve Bank will need to cut interest rates by as much as 100 basis points this year, according to ANZ Bank chief economist Warren Hogan. Despite the likelihood ...
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The sharemarket started the new year with a bang as US politicians agreed on a budget deal to avoid the worst of the so-called fiscal cliff, which had threatened to derail the world's biggest economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up ...
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Australian markets got off to a roaring start to 2013 yesterday, with the avoidance of the January 1 US fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts combining with rising iron ore prices to send the stockmarket on its biggest one-day ...
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The sharemarket started 2013 with a bang as US lawmakers agreed a budget deal to avoid the worst of the so-called fiscal cliff that had threatened to derail the world's biggest economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 1.2 per cent at ...
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The sharemarket is set to enter the final trading day of the year on edge after worries that US politicians would not be able to avert the looming fiscal cliff sent US stocks on their biggest one-day fall in more than a month. Futures ...
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The sharemarket ended the year on a sour note, falling for the first time in four days as the continuing US fiscal policy impasse weighed on market sentiment. However, the sell-off was limited by improved manufacturing data from China and ...
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Market watchers predict the local sharemarket will forge further ahead this year after surging almost 15 per cent last year, the result of a second-half recovery that defied concerns about sovereign debt in Europe and the US and a Chinese ...
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AUSTRALIAN stocks are set to rise today after the US avoided falling over its fiscal cliff -- at least for now -- and iron ore prices unexpectedly ended the year in positive territory. US tax and spending cuts due to start on January 1 ...
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Bloomberg reported that trading in iron ore swaps, used to bet or hedge on the future cost of the steelmaking commodity, rose almost threefold to a record this year as prices slumped to the lowest in nearly three years before rebounding. ...
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The Australian reported that Korab Resources has ended 2012 on a high, its stock more than doubling yesterday after selling its Winchester magnetite deposit in the Northern Territory for USD 33.2 million. Korab will receive a USD 16.6 ...
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While stock and bond traders fretted over the US fiscal cliff and its potential impact on broader markets earlier this week, Chinese iron ore buyers were unconcerned, continuing to push the price of Australia's biggest export higher on the ...
Bloomberg reported that steel reinforcement bar futures climbed to a five month high, heading for the best quarterly performance in two years, on optimism that a recovery in the real estate market in China, the biggest user may boost ...
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Xinhua reported that a Cambodian company and a Chinese firm on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to build a railway and a seaport in Cambodia to serve iron and steel mining industry. The deal was inked between Zhang ...
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