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April 2, 2024

Market closes in the red after testing news highs in early trading

The Australian share market ignored the softer lead from US markets overnight to test new highs in early trading, before late afternoon selling pushed the index into the red.  The sectors creating the greatest drag on the day were Communications Services, Property & Healthcare. Gold, Metals & Mining & Materials stocks were the key drivers

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BHP completes sale to Whitehaven Coal

BHP (ASX:BHP) and its partner, Mitsubishi Development, have completed the sale of their unwanted central Queensland coal mines at Daunia and Blackwater to Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC). BHP and Mitsubishi are 50-50 per cent partners in BMA, owners of the world’s richest coking coal reserves and export operations. In a statement to the ASX Tuesday afternoon,

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Return of doubts about Orora

A weak trading update, especially for its expensive French buy in late 2023, has seen the return of investor doubts about packaging group (and Amcor spin off a decade ago) Orora (ASX:ORA). The shares fell 13 per cent in the first minutes of trading on Tuesday after the Easter break off the back of a

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Gold vs bonds

Gold bugs celebrated yet another record for the metal on Monday with the price — spot and futures — rising sharply in early trading, before losing puff as US bond yields surged by the most in a month. Spot gold hit an all-time high of US$2,265.53 per ounce in the early hours of trading on

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