Australian Shares Midday:No Buyers To Support S&amp;P/ASX 200
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Consideration is being given to the effects of the high Australian dollar against the US dollar, with &quot;buyers being held back while the currency remains at 76 cents,&quot; says Peter Morgan, of Tolhurst Noall in Sydney.
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Tony O'Reilly's bid to buy one of Australia's leading media groups is thwarted after it failed to win enough support.
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Asian stocks slid on Monday as  investors fretted over high oil prices and bleak earnings  prospects at technology firms, while Australian markets cheered  a resounding election win for Prime Minister John Howard.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--The Takeovers Panel has stamped on an attempt by Woolworths Ltd. (WOW.AU) to bluff shareholders into accepting an 11th hour takeover bid for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group Ltd.
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ASX Ltd , Asia-Pacific's second-biggest listed stock exchange, said on Tuesday there was no basis to support market speculation that it was intending to buy Nasdaq Inc's  31 percent stake in London Stock Exchange Plc  at this stage.
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Media & professional: Rupert Murdoch will not raise his $5bn (Â£2.5bn) bid for the Wall Street Journal's owner, Dow Jones.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index rose to a record. Foodland Associated Ltd. surged after Metcash Trading Ltd., the nation&#39;s biggest grocery wholesaler, offered A$846 million ($660 million) for Foodland&#39;s local business.
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The was plenty of news but not much in the way of price movements on the sharemarket today. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index was up 6.50 points to 2861.
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SYDNEY : Australian share prices returned to record territory, adding 0.28 percent as investors shrugged off disappointing results from National Australia Bank to send the market higher, dealers said.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Under pressure to boost investor interest ahead of aA$30 billion share sale, Australia&#39;s largest telephone company Telstra Corp.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index had its biggest drop in three months, led by BHP Billiton, on concern record high oil prices will slow global economic growth and demand for commodities.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index was little changed. News Corp. advanced as investors who track the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index bought shares ahead of the stock&#39;s addition to the US benchmark next month.
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Arm Holdings shares slumped 18pc yesterday after the semiconductor designer unveiled a surprise cash and shares deal to buy US technology firm Artisan Components.
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THE AUSTRALIAN stock market could open weaker today, reflecting Friday&#39;s late slump in US trading. A downturn would contrast markedly with the expectations of local traders who went home for the weekend believing
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 average is up about 0.4 percent by midday on Wednesday as a rally in US stocks inspired buying. Taiwan, New Zealand and Singapore are also higher, but there are slight falls in South Korea and Australia.
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London equities were losing ground by midday Friday, as financial stocks sagged with investor concern over banks&#39; and asset managers&#39; exposure to sub-prime mortgage assets in the United States.
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US equity fund Newbridge Capital Ltd., which is selling Korea First Bank, yesterday postponed its anouncement of a preferred bidder, indicating that it is having difficulty setting the sale price with HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc.