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Stocks to watch early on Tuesday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange on Tuesday, July 3 ALL - ARISTOCRAT LEISURE LTD - down 31 cents at $2.45 Shares in Aristocrat Leisure fell more than 11 per cent after the compan..

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Lend Lease shares rise on profit hopes

Lend Lease has cheered investors with expectations of a modest rise in operating profit for the 2011/12 financial year. Shares in the developer bounced by more than four per cent on Monday when Len..

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Stocks to watch early on Monday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange on Monday, July 2 DJS - DAVID JONES LTD - up 33 cents or 14.6 per cent at $2.59 David Jones has been offered $1.65 billion for a full takeover by..

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Metcash completes $325m placement

Grocery wholesaler Metcash has announced the successful completion of its $325 million share placement. Metcash announced that it had placed the $325 million in fully paid ordinary shares on the ma..

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Murdoch outlines the future of News

News Corp's Australian newspapers and pay TV companies will stay together while worldwide the media group's publishing assets are split off from TV and film under a restructure announced by the compan..

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Stocks to watch early on Friday

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange today: ALK - ALKANE RESOURCES LTD - down 1.5 cents at 77.5 cents Alkane Resources says it's on track to bring one of the world's largest undevelo..

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Wall Street recovers from steep losses

US stocks have slashed steep early losses in the last hour of trade to end moderately lower, amid short covering and hopes that EU leaders would agree measures to stem the eurozone crisis. Falls in..

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