Business Services Industry
Foreign investors help ease fall.
Australasian Business Intelligence, March, 2006
Byline: Tim Findlay
Mar 08, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Although the Australian sharemarket remained in negative territory on 8 March 2006, bank and health stocks helped somewhat. The
S&P/ASX 200 index lost 6.7 points to close at 4,873 and the All Ordinaries Index fell 7.9 points to finish at 4,835.7. Resources stocks remained under pressure from falling
commodity prices, such as BHP Billiton closing down $A0.40 at $A23.60 and Rio Tinto losing $A1.65 to $A67.95. Major positive
contributors to the index included CSL and Woolworths, which rose $A1.55 to $A54.80 and $A0.18 to $A19.14 respectively.
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