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Construction materials company, Boral (ASX:BLD) reports its first half results for FY2012-13 to the Australian stock market to investors and stock traders.

• Boral made a net loss of $25.3 million in the first half to December. In the previous corresponding period the company made $152.7 million profit.

Building and construction materials manufacturer Boral (ASX:BLD) have released their full year financial results for FY 2012 to the ASX stockmarket.

• Boral net profit rose to $176.6 million, up 5 percent from $167.7 million the previous year.
• Excluding significant items, full year net profit came in at $101.2 million.
• Total revenue increased by 6.4 per cent to $5 billion, from $4.7 billion.

The year comes of with a rough start for some and a smooth for others as companies trade stocks for the second week of 2012. Here are the lists of the best and worst traded stocks in the ASX100, ASX200 and All Ordinaries in the Australian Securities Exchange for January 9-13, 2012.

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Boral (ASX:BLD) says that its full year net profit will be $160-175 million and that the company was on track to meet its profit guidance. Despite weather disruptions and soft residential markets in both Australia and the United States earlier in the year, Boral said that its year to date guidance supports the previous full year net profit after tax.

Construction materials supplier Boral (ASX:BLD) says it will purchase assets and operations from Wagners Group for $173 million. Quarry, concrete, and land assets in Darling Downs, South East Queensland, and Townsville are the assets Boral will be buying.

Boral said the Wagners assets included in the deal had revenue of $115m in 2009/2010, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of approximately $17m.

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