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Stocks to watch on Thursday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange early on Thursday: AAX - AUSENCO LTD - up 14 cent at $4.55 BSE - BASE RESOURCES LTD - up two cents at 47.5 cents Engineering firm Ausenco has ..

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Wall Street closes mixed

Stocks have ended pretty much where they started on Wall Street, a day after the market had its biggest gain of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average on Wednesday eked out an increase of 16.42..

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Stockland extends buyback

Property developer Stockland Group has expanded its on-market buyback of its securities to up to 10 per cent of issued capital. The previous target for the buyback, announced in August 2011, was fi..

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Consumer sentiment slips

Consumer sentiment has fallen following the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decisions in February and March to keep the official interest rate on hold, a survey shows. The Westpac/Melbourne Insti..

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Stocks to watch Wednesday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange early on Wednesday: FUN - FUNTASTIC LTD - steady at 15 cents Kids toy supplier Funtastic has taken over KP Multinational Pty Ltd for almost $3 mi..

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Fitch upgrades Greece to B-

The Fitch ratings agency has upgraded Greece to B- from "restricted default" after the country carried out the biggest debt writedown in history in a bond swap with private creditors. Fitch said on..

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Aussie stocks finish higher

Australian shares finished stronger as investors shrugged off a mixed US lead and lower prices for some commodities overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 50.9 points, or 1.21 per cen..

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CUA’s interim profit slides

Credit Union Australia (CUA) is confident it can attract more customers and boost revenues despite a slump in first half profit. Australia's biggest credit union on Tuesday reported an unaudited ne..

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Fitch downgrades Macquarie

Macquarie Group is the latest Australian banking firm to suffer a ratings downgrade by Fitch as the reviews most of the world's major financial institutions. Macquarie said the one notch downgrade ..

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Stocks to watch on Tuesday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange early on Tuesday: COK - COCKATOO COAL LTD - up 4.5 cents at 41 cents A South Korean firm plans to increase its stake in Australian coal miner Coc..

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Greece completes debt swap

Greece has implemented the biggest debt writedown in history, swapping the bulk of its privately held bonds with new ones worth less than half their original value. Although the exchange will keep ..

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Stocks drift to weaker close

The Australian sharemarket drifted to a marginally weaker close amid lower trading volumes because of a public holiday in Victoria. Investors sat on their hands ahead of a raft of US economic data ..

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Paladin to drill in Canada

Paladin Energy can now start exploring its Canadian assets, after a three-year moratorium on uranium mining was lifted by indigenous landowners. The Africa-focused uranium miner on Monday said the ..

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