Virgin Blue
Toll Holdings, the largest shareholder in Australia's second largest Airline, Virgin Blue Holdings plans to scrape its majority stakes in the airlines. Virgin Airlines is also Australia's biggest freight carrier owned by Virgin Group. Toll shall offload its holdings via a special dividend scheme according to which Toll shareholders shall get one share of Virgin Blue for every Toll share they own.
Here is an update on the different sectors of Australian market from market analyst Macquarie Research Equities.
Record Oil - The Impact of Black Gold
Qantas (QAN) and Virgin Blue (VBA) are two airline companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Stock analyst, Macquarie Research Equities (MRE) have noted the dramatic decline of the oil price as of late. This is a positive catalyst for airline companies with oil comprising about 30 percent of an airline company's cost base. MRE have updated their QAN and VBA forecasts in light of this recent trend in the oil price.
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Top 50 Public Companies Listed on the Australian Stockmarket as at 18/07/2008
- BHP Billiton
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
- Rio Tinto
- National Australia Bank (NAB)
- Telstra (TLS)
- News Corporation or NewsCorp (NWS)
- Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC)
- Woodside Petroleum Limited (WPL)
- ANZ
- Woolworths Limited (WOW)
- Westfield Group (WDC)
- Westfarmers Limited (WES)
- Fortescue Metals (FMG)
- CSL
- QBE Insurance
- St. George Bank Limited (SGB
- Newcrest Mining Limited (NCM
- Origin Energy Limited (ORG)
- Maquarie Group (MQG)
- AMP Limited (AMP)
- Leighton Holdings (LEI)
- Suncorp-Metway Limited (SUN)
- Brambles Limited (BXB)
- Santos Limited (STO)
- Coal & Allied (CNA)
- Incitec Pivot (IPL)
- Foster’s Group Limited (FGL)
- Orica Limited (ORI)
- BlueScope (BSL)
- AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA)
- Woodside Petroleum Limited (WPL)
- Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG)
- Stockland (SGP)
- Lihir Gold Limited (LGL)
- Qantas Airways Limited (QAN)
- Oxiana Limited (OXR)
- Sims Group Limited (SGM)
- AGL Energy Limited (AGK)
- OneSteel Limited (OST)
- Transurban Group (TCL)
- Oil Search Limited (OSH)
- Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCL)
- Crown (CWN)
- Alumina (AWC)
- ASX (Australian Securities Exchange)
- Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG)
- Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TEL)
- Computershare Limited (CPU)
- Aneka Tambang (Persero) TBK (ATM)
- Tabcorp Holdings (TAH)