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Downer on the up

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Share price rockets as engineering company beats analysts forecasts

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Property group increases profits 141%

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

GPT Group (ASX: GPT), the Sydney-based real estate and fund management company, released its full year 2012 results this morning,…

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Vege-mitey rip-off

| Mike King

Australian icon, Vegemite cheaper in the UK, despite being made here

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Which bank posts $3.8bn profit

| Mike King

Shares hit record high above $67

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WorleyParsons worry

| Mike King

Engineering group reports flat profit despite 14% jump in adjusted revenues

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CSL's healthy result

| Mike King

CSL maintains forecast for 24% earnings growth

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Boral reports first half loss

| Mike King

Building materials company doing it tough

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Computershare's sales rise but profits sink

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Shares of Computershare (ASX: CPU), the investor, business and technology services provider, have risen 2% this morning after the company…

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3 of the best ASX stocks today

| Mike King

ASX ends flat, despite briefly passing through the 5,000 mark. These three rose more than 8%

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Mining tax widely panned

| Mike King

Even Kevin Rudd gets in on the act

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50% of mines to close by 2040

| Mike King

Half of Australia's mines will be exhausted within 7-18 years, with 20 expected to close within the next five years

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Will Tabcorp's digital strategy be a winner?

| Tim McArthur

Online sales helping to offset licensing woes.

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RBA sells Securency interest

| Mike King

Stake in controversial money printing firm to be sold

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Aldi heads west

| Mike King

Discount supermarket chain reported to be looking at expansion in South Australia and Western Australia

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3 ASX stocks that rose more than 7% today

| Mike King

ASX falls 0.2% in lacklustre trade, but these three went bananas, rising by more than 7%

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Tech giants summonsed

| Mike King

Apple, Adobe and Microsoft ordered to explain high Australian prices for their products

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Retail investors drop smaller non-dividend paying stocks

| Mike King

Focus shifting to larger companies that pay consistent, fully franked dividends

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Wages gush higher for Aussie workers

| Mike King

Australian oil and gas workers highest paid in the world

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3 ASX stocks that smashed the market today

| Mike King

ASX rises 0.7%, but these three added more than 6%

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Mining boom still has legs

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China's exports and imports surge

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Insurers face $0.7 billion in claims

| Mike King

Figure could go higher as more cyclones, floods and bushfires remain a strong possibility

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Westpac cuts mortgage rate below 5%

| Mike King

Two-year fixed rate home loan drops to 4.99%

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News Corp. continues to soar

| Tim McArthur

News Corp results are good, so why the stock drop?

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Health insurance premiums to rise

| Mike King

Government expected to announce 5-6% increase

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Dividends paid in gold?

| Mike King

Gold miner comes up with radical plan

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Australand: What property downturn?

| Mike King

A tale of two developers

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Tablets rapidly gaining on PC sales

| Mike King

Could we see the death of PCs?

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Virgin-Tiger reservations

| Mike King

ACCC concerned that Virgin's 60% acquisition of Tiger will return Australia to a duopoly

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Banks to slash deposit rates?

| Mike King

Pressure building on banks to cut deposit rates

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Primary Health Care: 50% profit rise

| Mike King

But looks can be deceiving

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Retailers' unhappy Christmas

| Mike King

ABS data shows retail sales fell 0.2% in December

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Origin signs up Lockyer

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League legend to spruik the benefits of coal seam gas

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PC maker Dell goes private

| Mike King

Third largest PC maker to delist to revamp its business

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How to become a millionaire

| Tim McArthur

New investors (and old ones, too!) can learn a lot from great businessmen.

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Why Westfield Group's shares are up 32% for the year

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Shares of Westfield Group (ASX: WDC), Australia's largest property group, have risen 32% in the past twelve months, vs. a…

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3 ASX stocks that were hammered today

| Mike King

ASX drops 0.5%, but these three fared worse, dropping by 5.9% or more.

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Aussie super fourth largest in the world

| Mike King

Superannuation assets reach more than $1.5 trillion

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Builders struggle as house prices rise

| Mike King

Developers resorting to discounts, gift cards and other incentives to entice buyers, despite rising house prices

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Investors drown out Cochlear

| Mike King

Market takes dislike to $77.7m half year profit announcement

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British Airways cuts Qantas ties

| Mike King

Qantas deal with Emirates blamed

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