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Echo to raise funds by issuing shares

Casino operator Echo Entertainment Group plans to raise money via the issue of new shares. Echo shares were placed in a trading halt on Tuesday, ahead of the release of details of the capital raisi..

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Stocks to watch early on Tuesday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange on Monday, June 12: ANZ - ANZ BANKING GROUP LTD - down 25 cents, or 1.1 per cent, at $21.56 WBC - WESTPAC BANKING GROUP - down 34 cents, or 1.6 p..

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Stocks close lower

The Australian share market has closed lower as investors fretted over comments made by the head of the US central bank over the risk that the troubled euro zone posed to the US economy. On Friday,..

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Big banks cut interest rates

ANZ Banking Group has cut its variable interest rates on home loans and business loans by 25 basis points. Meanwhile, Commonwealth Bank has reduced it's interest rate by 21 basis points and Westpac..

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Stocks to watch at early on Friday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange today: AUT - AURORA OIL & GAS LTD - down 18 cents at $3.31 Shale gas producer Aurora oil and gas has joined Australia's top 100 companies on ..

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Renewable energy costs falling: IRENA

Power from renewable energy sources is getting cheaper every year, according to a newly-released study, challenging long-standing myths that clean energy technology is too expensive to adopt. Accor..

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Whitehaven sells stake in coal project

Whitehaven Coal says it is better placed now to develop the highly regarded Maules Creek coal project in NSW after it sold a stake in the development. The statement comes after Whitehaven sold a 10..

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