The Australian dollar was little changed yesterday in Asian trading, in a muted response to remarks from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the world's largest economy still had quite a way to go towards recovery, despite recent ...
Bloomberg reported that China, buyer of 65% of the world’s iron ore cargoes, expanded the destinations it got the commodity from this year with the first reported spot shipments from Oman, the Philippines and Sierra Leone. According ...
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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 sharemarket closed higher yesterday as US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holiday to return to Washington for talks aimed at avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff. Locally,investors remained optimistic that ...
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