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Chinese demand for iron ore weakened squeezing the price for Australia's largest mineral export. It's a similar story for most of the nation's other top mineral exports, says UBS analyst Daniel Morgan...
Asian shares recovered on Tuesday while commodities won a break from recent selling pressure after the information that China's massive factory sector outwent the market's bleak expectations...
AUD/USD hit 0.8923 during late Asian trade; the pair subsequently consolidated at 0.8909, gaining 0.41...
Today emerging-market stocks dropped to a 15-week low, led by technology companies and raw-material producers. Chinese shares rose after a manufacturing gauge topped estimates, Bloomberg reports...
In the forex markets this morning, sterling was trading against the greenback at 1.6345 and against the euro at 1.2711. The US dollar was trading at 0.7776 against the euro and 108.86 against the Japanese yen...
Multinational giants, such Google and Apple, should find it harder to cover their profits from tax from the next year, as G20 finance ministers meeting in Cairns this weekend welcomed progress towards finalising measures that will crack down on multinational tax avoidance and promised to wrap-up...
According to a prestigious global forecaster, the decrease in China and a tighter federal budget will drive Australia's growth as low as 2 per cent next year, allowing interest rate cuts and a 20 per cent devaluation in the Australian dollar...
On Monday Asian shares slid, as investors awaited data this week that could provide more evidence of a slowdown in China, while the dollar gave back a little of its recent gains...
Reuters: European markets rally on Friday as Scotland's decision to stay in the United Kingdom eased investors past the latest in a recent run of global political obstacles...