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  • Macarthur Coal in trading halt

    Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

    Trading in Macarthur Coal has been suspended at the request of the company, which has been approached by a third party regarding a possible takeover.

    The halt will last until April 6, or until an announcement is made to the market.

    Yesterday Macarthur, (the world’s largest producer of low volatile pulverized injection coal for steel making) confirmed its full year sales forecast, which was unaffected despite fears of the potential impact Cyclone Ului threatened on its Dalrymple Bay shipments.

    Macarthur Coal Share Price Chart

    Macarthur Coal
    ASX Code: MCC

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    MacArthur Coal Ex Dividend On 25/3/2010

    Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

    MacArthur Coal (MCC) will go ex dividend on 25/3/2010. The current dividend payment is 8 cents and it is 100% franked. The record date is 31/3/2010 and the dividend will be paid on 21/4/2010. Based on the full year payment the dividend yield is 1.8%.

    *Current Yield: 0.7% Franking: 100% DRP Discount: Not Available

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    *Yield has been calculated on the closing price on the 5/3/2010. Current yield is based on the current dividend payment only.

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    Asciano Secures $250 million Contract With Macarthur Coal

    Friday, February 5th, 2010

    Asciano (AIO) announces today that it has executed a long term, take or pay contract with Macarthur Coal Pty Ltd (MCC) for the movement of  7 million tonnes of coal per annum from the Coppabella and Moorvale mines in Queensland commencing on 1 November 2010. The signing of this agreement will generate total revenues of approximately $250 million for Asciano and confirms Macarthur related entities as Asciano’s largest coal haulage customer in Queensland with annualised tonnes in excess of 10 million.

    Asciano Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Rowsthorn said, “Asciano’s entry into the Queensland market has immediately raised the bar on service quality and we are extremely pleased with the confidence that Macarthur Coal has shown in our performance to date. Macarthur is a dynamic organisation that is focused on delivery and performance and we look forward to continually searching for ways to contribute to their ongoing success”, Mr Rowsthorn said.

    “We originally planned on securing contracts totalling 30 million tonnes by the end of 2010 and that box has well and truly been ticked and what’s more, every contract signed to date will deliver returns at or above our internal benchmarks”, Mr Rowsthorn said. “With our first ten train sets in Queensland contracted, Asciano will now proceed to purchasing further train sets to support its ongoing growth in this extremely important market”, Mr Rowsthorn said. “The coal haulage opportunities presented by the northern and southern missing link infrastructure projects, as well as the development of the Surat and Galilee basins, are clearly next on our agenda”, Mr Rowsthorn said.

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    Better than expected earnings for Macarthur Coal

    Friday, January 15th, 2010

    Macarthur Coal has upgraded its first half earnings guidance and full year sales forecasts, following healthy sales in 2009.

    First half profit is now pegged at between $37 million and $42 million, up from a forecast of between $30 million and $38 million.

    Sales for the December 2009 quarter were the second highest in the company’s history, with production also helped along by favourable weather and faster cargo loading.

    Forecasts for the second half of this year expect sales will be lower than in the first half.

    Macarthur Coal
    ASX Code: MCC

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    The Age: “Strong sales drive Macarthur guidance higher”

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    Massive share price surge for Gloucester Coal

    Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

    Gloucester Coal shareholders will be smiling, after yesterday’s 25.5% surge in the share price.

    The dramatic increase was triggered by a $1.2 billion takeover bid from rival coal player Macarthur Coal.

    Macarthur has offered Gloucester shareholders 0.84 Macarthur shares for every 1.00 Gloucester share held.

    Gloucester Coal
    ASX Code: GCL

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    MacArthur Coal Ex Dividend On 7/9/2009

    Monday, September 7th, 2009

    MacArthur Coal (MCC) will go ex dividend on 7/9/2009. The current dividend payment is 13 cents and it is 100% franked. The record date is 11/9/2009 and the dividend will be paid on 30/9/2009. Based on the full year payment the dividend yield is 1.5%.

    Current Yield: 1.5% Franking: 100% DRP Discount: Not Available

    www.macarthurcoal.com.au

    *Yield has been calculated on the closing price on the 4/9/2009. Current yield is based on the current dividend payment only.

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    Macarthur Coal Share Purchase Plan

    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

    Macarthur Coal (MCC) announced on the 18/6/2009 that they would be conducting a Share Purchase Plan to raise additional capital. The record date was the 24/6/2009 on which shareholders must own the share to participate in the SPP. The closing date for the offer is 16/7/2009. Shares will be issued on 24/7/2009 and begin trading on the 27/7/2009. A maximum of $15,000 can be purchased by each shareholder at $6.00.

    Discount : 6.6% Liquidity : Good Profitability : Good Stability : Good

    www.macarthurcoal.com.au

    * Note: Discount is based on the closing price on the 29 June 2009.

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    Stock Market Analysis: Thursday 27th November 2008 Cube Morning Wrap

    Thursday, November 27th, 2008

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    Good Morning and welcome to Cube Wrap for Thursday the 27th of November.  I am Michael Hevern for Cube Financial.

    The information provided within this presentation is general advice only and you should consult the services of a financial professional in order to ascertain whether the information is applicable to your investment strategies and risk profile.  Again, it is general advice only.

    Stock Market Analysis

    Well, Dow took another slide this morning pushing its head up against that downtrend line and managed to close above that and is down 5% and lot of that selling was down in the last out trading.  We saw the autos weigh.  The Fed has revised the quarter figures up to 7.5% for 2009 that was up from 5% the previous 6 months.  This concern about the visibility, volatility, and buyers down.  US market finished at 12.5 lows and 98% of the volume that was traded was traded to the downside, so that all were 0.2, further weakness seen in the market.

    We see that the NASDAQ was down 5% as well and we also saw yahoo gets sold down and it was closed to 20% with down 2 dollars on the session. Very nice technical move for the last 10 days and it is not very good for the world as it steadily controls and also trekking the low out of that which can continue for sometime.

    US Markets

    Elsewhere in the US, the key stories were that the Feb are releasing minutes for their previous meeting, saying that they are open to more rate cuts, we will see how that unfolds.  US trying on construction and consumer prices dived with October highs starts stumbling to ripple low from 4.5% is easily adjusted and US consumer prices take the biggest months in 61 years, dropping 1% to significantly adjusted 9%.

    The autos exerts in Washington at the moment trying to get the hands on some of the bailout package money and also trying to get all of it as soon as possible.  We also see that the standard portraying industry saying that they haven’t risen to 4.2% for September shooting a new high and the average is 3.9% for the third quarter.

    We also saw that there was investing concerned about the 700 million dollar package not being enough to stabilize the markets going forward and that may be even more impotence for getting holds of more money going forward.  We saw Citigroup shared 14% to that level since 1995, and financials sent its way liberally with the financials with the index down 7% on the session.

    In the NASDAQ, we saw Apple down 4%, Microsoft down 7% and Cisco down 8% on the session.  The FTSE in the UK was down close to 5%.  It is below the mid levels of that support level that it managed to hold for those days, but it closed below that on the close.  We saw energy pulled back considerably on the back of that gain, so that had previous session. The Bank of England has also said that they are open to more and more rate cuts and will continue to cut as necessary.

    Energy Stocks

    Energy stocks, we see BP, Shell, and BG group all down between 3.5% to 6% on the session on the back of oil prices.  We saw banks better yet again as J.P. Morgan has slightly turning customers.

    European Markets

    On the UK banking sector, we see HSBC down 9%, Barclays down 13%.  We see Lloyds down 9% as well.  Investors were also sold down almost 10% as Lloyds bank cutting price tag and going forward.  The miners weren’t spared either all down in between 12% and 18% on the session.  That’s not going to go very well for our miners either.

    The CAC was down 4% and the DAX was down 5% on the session.  Chemical stocks is a big story in Europe as BASS said it will temporally shot down 80 plants world wide and production of another 100 plants as it announced that its profits was sliding and so that may be some excuse as to why articles sold off so heavily yesterday. We saw BASF plunge 14% on the back of that news and elsewhere stocks were also under heavily selling pressure in Europe.

    Asian Markets

    We see that in Asia, the Nikkei did perform too bad and is down 0.7%. Exporters suffered on the back of stronger Yen, but banks did come under pressure as financial group was reportedly to raise about 4.1 million dollars going forward and weighted on the other financials as well with Mitsui down 6% on the session.

    Elsewhere in Asia, we see that Hong Kong was down 8.8% and Chinese shares are also down over 6% on the session.  We see that in the commodities market that oil continues to slide looks like it’s going to test the flowing trend line there at a 22-month lows.  The inventories have risen in the US for the eight straight weeks so that continued to give pressure on the oil price.  Gold was fluctuating somewhat due to the weaker US dollar, but it could be some fairly flat as 735 on the session.  Doesn’t really know which way to go there you can see on the chart, it is just trading in the top range and it does break outside and it will be fairly exposing.  We are unsure as to how long that will take to be with being in there for approximately twenty trading days at the moment, so you expect it to be closing atone way or the other.

    We see that in the ASX our market was down and finished below the 3500 level obviously with testing that down trend line again. Interestingly was SPI was down 165 and around about 4% overnight and so that’s not very good for our markets and we saw broad-based selling in the ADRs as well.  We see AWC and Alumina down 17% on the session.  The insurer AIG was down 20% in the US.

    BHP and RIO were down 10% and 11% and Chevron and Exxon which were up previous session with both down 3.8%.  Gold stocks index was down 6% and the oil stocks index down 5.6%.  We also see that in gold miner in the US is down 5% on the session. Our markets we see that all the commodities are down as well with silver down 3.5, aluminum down 2%, lead down almost 6%, copper down 4.3%, and nickel down 5%, and zinc down 4%.  But it is worth saying that analysts are predicated Zinc will be in for a short coming rally in the next few sessions so that we need to watch.

    In news in our market we have the removal of the short selling ban in our market yesterday and as expected we saw the bear step in there continued to be in the news. Macarthur Coal came up said that they are expecting their Iron or Coal to fall in the next 12 months based on the back of lower world steel production, so that was lots of that will be affected there will be the other coal miners also.  The steel makers in Australia such as CSR have risen to 315 million dollars, but it was at a discount to the uploading price.  Oz minerals have responded to ASX queries and have announced a profit warning they were sold down heavily yesterday. Babcock and Brown are going through yet another restructure selling and asset sales in attempt to appease their bankers and BHP due to announced project confirm that they are going to proceed that market was down especially since the reduction has made, were not sure what the cost will be and were going for a lower economic demand, you will expect that the demand on that facility will actually be ascending at the moment but I guess you need to look at the big picture and they have actually promised the miners that will expand the port facilities so it will be interesting to see how that proceed. Telstra futures goes out of escrow today and we expect that market to open tomorrow with broad-based selling there is a special report that wave published and you can read reports on stocks you should be wary of.

    Should you have any questions about the information provided within this presentation, please call the equities options desk of the CFD advising desk on the numbers provided, as always trade carefully.

    By Michael Hevern
    Cube Financial

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    Friday 17th October 2008 Cube Morning Wrap

    Friday, October 17th, 2008

    Presented by Michael Hevern
    Cubefinancial

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    Good morning and welcome to Cube Wrap for Friday the 17th of October.  I am Michael Hevern for Cube Financial.

    The information provided within this presentation is general advice only and you should consult the services of a financial professional in order to ascertain whether the information is applicable to your investment strategies and risk profile.  Again, it is general advice only.

    Well, the Dow went through another roller-coaster ride last night.  This is intraday chart we have here indicating that we possibly could have a double bottom.  We would need to trade above the highs of earlier this week in order to confirm that, but there is a fairly low risk going to be there that obviously institutions are looking at making an entry with a stock below last week’s low.  We can see the focus there was on earnings in the US and we also saw Citigroup has losses on the write-downs.  Their third quarter loss was $2.8bn for Citigroup and we saw write-downs of $4.4bn with securities and banking as they blame the weakness in revenue.  They also cut down 11,000 jobs in the US.  The shares were down 4%.  Meryl Lynch was also down after winding their write downs to $9.5bn and the third quarter loss of $5.5bn, the shares is cutting 98% of its exposures to the US and the shares were down 4%.  We also saw confidence in the home building area down in October and the September figures were also revised down.

    In the NASDAQ, this number intraday chart, you can see the possible double bottom there as well.  It is testing the lows of 2003.  The market was up 5.5% on the last-hour trading and the DOW was actually up about 4% or 400 points on the last hour of trading as well.  Google reported towards the end of the day and their profits were actually up 26%, which was seen as good and also surprised analysts to the up side.  AMD released their earnings as well.  They did release a fall in profits, but it was better than expected and that a turnaround story there.  Also, the stocks that we look at in the market that impact or which have ADRs in Australia, BHP was up 2.4%, Rio up 2.4%, and saw James Hardie up almost 10%.  US steel was still the makers of the US, up 8%, and the energy stocks Chevron and Exxon were up 5% and 11% on the back of a rebound from the previous day’s sell off.  We saw the oil stocks index up 8% on the session, which is a bit surprising given that oil price pulled back.  Obviously, investors are thinking that oil is getting close to the bottom there.  I will discuss that later in the presentation.  Gold is down 7%, so it has not seen as much of a safe haven.  I think the institutions are starting to weigh back into the market given that volatility is up so high and also the market is retesting the lows of last week.  We saw the DOW up 4.6% on the close and S&P 500 was up 4.2% on the session.  We saw NASDAQ up 5.5% on the close.

    In UK, we saw that market down, looking slightly weak there.  It is a weekly chart I think I have got there.  You can see there that it is still testing the lows of 2003.  It is yet to test the ultimate low there around the 3500 mark.  We saw the energy, mining, and bank stocks in the UK all struggle.  We saw BHP, Anglo, and Xstrata all down between 10% and 15% in the UK, but they did recover somewhat in the US.  This is following on from our sell off as well, Rio down 13% and energy stocks dropped to 12% on the back of weaker oil prices.  We saw BP, Shell, and BG Group down all between 3.5% and 5% on the session.  Banks also struggle with hPlus, Barclays, and Standard Chartered all down between 2% and 12% on the session, and Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland were steady.  Elsewhere in Europe, we saw the markets down there as well with the CAC down 6% and the DAX down 5% on the session.

    In the Asian markets, we saw that market also sold off 14% on the session, which was the biggest 1-day loss in the history of the index.  We actually suggested yesterday as it was up, counter trend to everybody else in the previous session.  It did miss on this week on that market, have been exacerbated by the fact that they did have a holiday early in the week, so they play catch up on Tuesday when they get their turn on Wednesday, but now they have pulled back and down to the lows of looking to test the lows of last week.  Same old story, export is lower and banking lower in the Asian markets.  We saw Sony down 13%, Canon down 12%, Honda down 10%, Toyota down 9%, so all the exporters are reflecting the outlook of the global economy and weakening sales revenue figures going forward, and Mitsubishi Corp was actually down 15%, Mitsui down 17%, so the two big financial houses there are also down heavily.  Elsewhere in Asia, we saw Hong Kong down 5% and China down 4.2%, so weakness over there.

    In the commodities market, we saw oil did get close to the $70 mark.  That was on the back of weaker global demand.  Also, inventories were up in the US as well which did calm the situation.  You can see there it is going to test that trend line.  If you can see a rebound from that level, you can see another run up to $5 or $10 in the short-to-medium term.  However, if you believe all the news, then there is only one direction for the oil market at the moment that is down.  Gold was also down as we saw forced liquidations in that sector and I guess the money is being taken out of the gold market and put in to the stock market with the view that we are seeing a double bottom at the moment.  We also see USD strength because of that influx of money into the US markets.  We saw silver down 5%, gold down 4%, West Texas crude down 6%, copper down 6%, lead down 10.5%, zinc down 11%, aluminum up 0.7%, and nickel down 10%, so all those commodities were sold off quite heavily overnight.

    We saw our market sell off yesterday.  This again is an intraday chart just to give you a feel for what is happening and where we are up to with respect to a potential double bottom there.  It would not be confirmed until it traded above last week’s high, but there is obviously low-risk entries trading opportunity there with the lows of just last week being the ultimate stops.  We see the SPI 4% overnight, up over China 6 points.  Woodside reported yesterday and confirmed their forecasts for earnings going forward and also put in 84% rise in revenue. Macarthur coal called profit up $160m.  CSR reported their forecasts back in line.  They did increase them the last time they reported.  They have pulled everything back in line with their previous year’s figures.  NAB is in the news today, rumored to be looking for a capital rising between $2bn and $2.5bn and as a result of that there is speculation whether they will be looking at Sun Corps’ banking assets going forward.  They also have brought forward their annual reporting to Tuesday and it is rumored that their profits will be down around about 11% or $4bn.  Again, cash is key looking at miners.  Many of them are trading below cash on their books at the moment.  So, that is one possible way to enter into the market at the moment.  ASX will open high today and there will be some bargain hunting there, but remember it is Friday.

    Should you have any questions about this presentation, please call the equities option desk or the CFD advisory desk on the numbers provided, and will be available to help.  As always, trade carefully.

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