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Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... explained by the costs of 'transport' and storage in moving water between those two places or points in time." Henry said drought wouldn't offer price protections to the agriculture industry either as they would have to pay the market price. "In a well ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... sales guidance of six to seven per cent for the 2008 financial year, amid a higher inflationary environment caused by drought. Its shares were two cents stronger to $4.37 at 1219 AEDT. Pharmaxis shares had edged three cents lower to $4.09 at 1220 AEDT ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... weakness in Graincorp shares after it reported a loss of almost $20 million for the year, which was expected... due to the drought." In the US overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average ended up 331.01 points to 13,289.45, the Standard & Poor's 500 ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... Australians are instead busy buying household goods (up 1.6 per cent), and recreational goods (up 1.0 per cent). And of course drought affected food prices are escalating, accounting for a 1.3% increase in the data. Department stores and clothing & soft ...

FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Drought stricken farmers and companies have the opportunity to receive free financial planning advice through the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) program being trialled in the southwest NSW region of Sunraysia. The FPA approached the ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... encouragning less restraint from consumers. The outsized rise in the headline PPI reflected a strong construction sector and the drought. Areas where producer inflation accelerated included building and construction costs and some agricultural products. ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
Things are heating up in Australia and it's not just our share market and the rising value of the dollar, current greenhouse gas emissions are set to fry the climate making Australia dryer and hotter over the next 20-60 years. According to a report ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... rising demand for basic food produce is set to bring serious inflationary pressures to central banks later this year." Drought and flooding across the globe have already cut harvest forecasts between 10 and 20 per cent among the world's main food producers. ...

FPA lends farmers a helping hand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Corinna Dieters, yesterday announced a pilot project for planners to help drought affected farmers free of charge, potentially the first of many pro bono projects for needy Australians. Dieters announced the ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Australia's wheat production is expected to more than double from the previous years drought stricken harvest and farm production is now forecast to rise by around 13 per cent in 2007-08. Not so lucky are coal ...