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Ansa
| 11 months ago
Financial markets slumped Thursday amid news that China's economy may have slowed, and policy makers in the United States are not considering more stimulus any time soon. The Milan Stock Exchange fell by fully 2% to 13,583.82 points as major...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
China will today release its weakest quarterly economic growth figures in three years have added to market pessimism on the mining sector. Yesterday, Australia's top mining stocks suffered another selloff as investment banks continued to trim...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
This year before this writing, the company's shares had shown a gain of 5.4 percent compared with the drops of 2.9 and 8.5 percent for Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton LTd, respectively. According to its director of sustainable development, the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
After early modest gains, the local share market capitulated after poor employment data released late in the morning. Yet it was not companies focused on domestic consumers that fell the most, rather it was the mining sector that fell almost 2.5 per...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
Signs are growing that weakness in the U.S. and European economies is spilling over to Asia, the world's global growth engine. South Korea on Thursday moved to prop up its economy with an unexpected interest rate cut, and the odds of a similar move...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Overnight key European markets moved higher, happy with the news that the Spanish government was looking at running a tight budget control. The US market lost ground after the notes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting showed that member were...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.2 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4,076.3, following the line of the broader All Ordinaries index which was also down 20.2 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4,144.8. On the ASX 24, the September share...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
Asian markets were little moved early Thursday, in another day of directionless trading, as investors sat on the sidelines ahead of further central bank announcements and China growth data. Investors were left uninspired by the minutes of the Federal...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Articles The boost would be a jump from the 4,520 tonnes of uranium produced in 2011, which are just 8 per cent of the global supply and enough to fuel only six one-gigawatt nuclear reactors. There are 386 operating nuclear plants throughout the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
THE notorious battlefield that is Olympic-year advertising last night threatened to ensnare the golden girl of Australian track cycling, Anna Meares. The industry lobby group Australian Mining was forced to pull its television and online advertising...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Overnight profit warnings from US companies compounded worries of an already slowing economy, sending US stocks into the red...European share markets managed some gains although volumes were once again very low...Energy stocks were the worst...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
On Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.5 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 4,096.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 2.9 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 4,135.0 points. On the ASX 24, the September share price index futures...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
The 1987 sharemarket crash put paid to that mentality, and for a few years we decried those excesses, most widely illustrated in the movie classic Wall Street, with the archetypal investment banker Gordon Gekko and his "greed is good" mantra. We'd...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
China's latest economic data point to a deepening slowdown that is adding to pressure on communist leaders to revive growth and avert job losses and political tensions.
The slump — the deepest since the 2008 global crisis — could hurt...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
On a positive note, a report has shown that Australia ns are more confident about their finances this month than expected. The recent rate cuts and lower fuel prices seem to be boosting sentiment. The official cash rate (the interest rate set by the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
Australia will produce enough uranium to fuel a third of the world's nuclear power plants if the Olympic Dam expansion goes ahead, Mineral and Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis says. The minister has offered the insight into the level of uranium...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
A tell-tale sign that we're at the logical frontier of monetary policy in a fiat money system is that central bank rate cuts no longer produce stock market rallies...The National Bureau of Statistics reported last week that Chinese electricity...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
Stock With Multibagger Potential Neha is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited. This company's stock has been beaten up black and blue in the past twelve months,...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
China's imports for May rose just 6.3%, less than half the 12.7% forecast, according to Reuters. The market staged an early rise, but the news from China hit our markets, and shares plummeted. China's imports from Australia in June rose just 1.7%...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
Chinese imports rose in June at only half the pace expected, government data showed Tuesday, suggesting the need for Beijing to do more to increase growth and stoking anxiety about the strength of domestic demand. Officials singled out the debt...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The property groups and the telcos managed to record strong gains today however most other regions of the market ended in the red. Family-owned Australian chocolate company, Darrell Lee is now up for sale after 85 years in business...This basically...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
Most of those low points were in October 2011, but the sector has been getting very close again recently. The underlying worry is the state of the world economy, in particularly the Chinese slowdown. It's also currently exacerbated by the forthcoming...
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Adelaide Now
| 11 months ago
More quietly, BHP itself has applied for licences in a huge arc stretching from north of Olympic Dam and around the eastern side of Lake Torrens toward Hawker and Port Augusta...The area claimed represents an unprecedented advance from the...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The gold price held steady near $1,585 per ounce on Monday as the yellow metal consolidated following last week's 0.9% decline. The price of gold stabilized alongside the U.S. Dollar Index this morning, which inched lower by 0.1% to 83.292. In...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
Fears of uncertainties from the forthcoming interim reporting season appear to be behind the wobble, though it may really be only noise following a couple of good weeks. But even if the index of top shares is down, individual companies are moving in...
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PRWeb
| 11 months ago
Magazine for the third year running. Colligo’s apps for SharePoint include a comprehensive suite of email and document management applications, with support for PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, whether connected or offline. Available now, the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1 per cent on Friday after a weak employment report, and the All Ordinaries index followed almost exactly, ending the day down 0.9 per cent at 4,160, while the ASX 200 lost 40 points to 4,118. Resources companies...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 39.5 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 4,118.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had shed 39.2 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,159.8 points. On the ASX 24, the September share price index futures...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Asian shares and the euro slumped on Monday as sluggish U.S. jobs data and cooling inflation in China deepened worries about slowing global economic growth and reinforced risk aversion ahead of a meeting aimed at defining steps to shore up Europe's...
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Chinadaily
| 11 months ago
For two years now, the prophets of doom have forecast that China is heading for a hard landing. But while China is not immune to the debt crises in the West, it is better positioned to cope with them. Last Thursday, the People's Bank of China lowered...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Asian shares slumped on Monday after sluggish U.S. jobs data deepened worries about slowing global economic growth, and reinforced risk aversion ahead of China inflation figures and a meeting aimed at defining steps to shore up Europe's banks. The...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
Earlier in the week, a stronger-than-expected ADP private sector jobs report had raised expectations that the non-farms figure might reverse a recent trend and surprise to the upside, but it wasn't to be with the headline number of 80,000 coming in...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
Analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg forecast a 1.8 percent drop in profits for Standard & Poor's 500 companies in the April-June period, which would mark the first year-over-year decline since 2009, even as revenue increased 2.5 percent. Analysts...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The global economic outlook for the second half of the year is at risk of a sharp downward revision this week when China , the main driver of world growth, publishes quarterly data that analysts widely expect to be the worst in at least three years.
