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 ...
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Cleaning products manufacturer Ecover and Closed Loop Recycling have launched a new initiative to recycle waste plastics from the seas around the UK. The material will be recycled at Closed Loop's Dagenham facility and will later on be ...
Qantas’s biofuel partner Solazyme has seen sales increases of 35 per cent at participating test sites in the US, where B20 algae-derived diesel fuel was sold alongside mineral diesel. And a post-sale survey has shown that drivers ...
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The Australian dollar was half a US cent lower despite Wall Street stock markets making solid gains overnight, with the Dow Jones Index reaching fresh record highs. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 102.38 US cents, down from ...
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Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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Blue chips continued to climb to new heights, pushing beyond the record levels reached in yesterday's rally after a better-than-expected reading on the labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.47 points, or 0.3 per cent, ...
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The local sharemarket rose to a 4 1/2-year high yesterday as the economic outlook for the US and China brightened and eurozone worries eased, with National Australia Bank spiking higher on reports of a cost-cutting plan. The benchmark ...
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THE Dow Jones Industrial Average has edged closer to an all-time closing high, as investors brushed off steep losses in China's equity markets and pushed major benchmarks higher. The Dow rose 38.16 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 14127.82, to ...
US prices for all Formosa Plastics liquid caustic soda products will increase by $30/dry st immediately or as contract terms allow, the company said in a letter to customers Wednesday. The company did not provide a reason for the ...
Life Cycle Assessment shows high-build traffic paint markings made with FASTRACK HD-21A Binder leave a smaller environmental footprint compared to thermoplastic road markings Time-tested and field-proven to facilitate high-build systems ...
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Dow Chemical has expanded its Fortegra line of toughening technology designed to help improve the toughness of epoxy systems for electrical laminates, as well as structural adhesives, composites, castings and coatings. The new addition, ...
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 ...
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The Dow industrials posted their third triple-digit-point gain of the year, as Hewlett-Packard and American International Group AIG rallied on earnings and a reading on German business confidence topped expectations. The Dow Jones ...
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The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 has closed down 2.3 per cent at 4980.1, its biggest fall in nine months. More than $36 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares in the market's largest one-day decline since May 18, pulling back from ...
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A TOP BlackRock executive said there was little evidence of a meaningful switch by global investors into equities from fixed-income assets, even after recent strong sharemarket gains. "There appears to be a lot of cash coming off the ...
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