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Economic round-up: Currency and commodities

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
The Aussie dollar just fell short of US86Ac overnight, supported by interest rate speculation, yen-funded carry trade activity and a commodities boom that is now tipped to plateau. While the local currency climbed to a new 18 year high of US85.98Ac ...

Economic round-up: Raging bull

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
As the Australian stock market finishes what has been the best financial year of the past 20, a spectacular amount of cash has been floating around looking for somewhere to set up house. Investors have done exceptionally which has seen the bull market ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
The outlook for growth in emerging economies looks set to accelerate, "playing increasingly important roles in the global economy," while mature markets are likely to take a back seat, according to the World Wealth Report. The World Wealth Report by ...

Economic round up: offshore outsourcing outsourced

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
As technology industries' demand for offshore services drives India's wages growth, India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is sending some of its outsourcing services offshore to Mexico. While India's salaries generally remain significantly lower than ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure's renovation rescue

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
The States have launched into a long overdue renovation rescue of infrastructure, but skills shortages could put a dampener on the progress of new projects. The FY08 State budget rounds have been completed and reveal that the Australian States remain ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Economic round-up: Market shivers

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
The Australian stock market is facing the jitters today after Wall Street ended last week badly and the price of oil continued to climb. US stocks plummeted in the financial sector, amid fears that hedge fund losses on risky mortgage securities could ...

Economic round-up: A greener shade of dirty

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
China may be turning green after all as it finds the business of cleaning-up to be a financially lucrative one. Power generation is the biggest source of CO2 in America and until recently America was the biggest producer of CO2 in the world. But China's ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Weakness in our infrastructure just wont go away as a new report by the Prime Minister's chief scientific panel warns that climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA ...

Economic round-up: Dollars and sense

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
The International Monetary Fund is about to clamp down on unfriendly currency policies insisting that its 185 members reject strategies that create instability for other countries. Meanwhile the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has just executed its ...