澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-07-24
时间：2013-12-23 06:53:38
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The share market is edging up in early trade after a relatively1 flat finish on Wall Street. Right now, the ASX 200 is a quarter of a per cent higher. Taking a looking, overnight in the US, weaker than expected existing home sales and disappointing earnings2 from Mc Donalds weighed on the market. Across the Atlantic, markets closed before the arrival of the royal baby. The FTSE 100 shed point-one per cent
The Australian dollar is buying close to 93 US cents now.
And commodity prices jumped overnight.Golds saw its biggest jump in three months, while oil prices are also rising.
An anti-coal
activist3 has been given
unconditional4 bail5 over charges of releasing a fake press statement that forced a trading halt on Whitehaven Coal. Jonathan Moylan issued the
hoax6 release in January, saying the ANZ bank had
withdrawn7 funding from Whitehaven Coal's Maules
Creek8 Mine in northwestern New South Wales. The release saw more than 300 million dollars wiped off the share price before it later recovered. Moylan appeared
briefly9 in court today and the matter has been
adjourned10 until September.
And the biggest story of the day. The royal baby boy isn't just a
boon11 to the royal family, but the UK economy as well, according to the UK's Centre for
Retail12 Research. The parties are expected to net 87 million pounds for
retailers13. Toys and souvenirs 80 million pounds and media of the event will come in just under that, totalling 243 million pounds or nearly half a billion Australian dollars.
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