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Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
... presently in the pipeline valued at $34.9 billion for the 94 advanced projects of the list of 268 that are current. Petroleum and coal projects account for about half or $16.4 billion of the advanced projects.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... million to Australia in the form of pig iron, explosives, wood products and pulp and waste paper. Australia sends mostly coal and engineering technology to Chile. The talks open the way for further market expansion into the South American region by A ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... which is about 10 per cent of the nations needs. Located in the La Trobe Valley which has an estimated 500 years of brown coal reserves, the flow on effects from the development are likely to inject $10 billion into the State economy according to the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
... Resources accounted for about half of Australia's export for the first time in the June quarter as a result of good demand for coal, iron ore and copper. Earnings from minerals and energy rose 32 per cent to the record level of $91 billion.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... quarter. Exports from minerals and energy rose by 32 per cent to $90.5 billion within which there was a 41 per cent increase in coal exports which are now worth $24 billion. Iron ore exports rose 54 per cent to $12.5 billion and those of copper rose ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... September share price index contract was up 39 points to 5005 at 0722 AEST. Today, Harvey Norman, Regional Express and Macarthur Coal are set to deliver their annual results. The Australian share market closed lower yesterday as continued weakness in ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... areas. The other industry within manufacturing to make a positive contribution to GDP was that of chemicals, petroleum and coal products which was up by 3.9 per cent. The main negative contributions within came from machinery and equipment which fell ...

B&B makes power play for utilities assets

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... The assets include the Northern and Playford Power Stations and are in line with B&B's 10 year strategy to build up both coal and gas fired power stations. The group's utility holdings currently make up part of B&B's balance sheet while the group recently ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... million to aid remote use renewable energy sources and $76 million to assist increased oil exploration and to develop further coal to liquid and gas to liquid technology. Reducing the excise on fuel of 38.1c per litre has been ruled out as the minimum ...

Mergers deliver cost savings to members

... merger. However, among the audience was AUSCOAL's chief executive officer, Bruce Watson, who said that the merger of QCOS and COAL Super did deliver benefits to members. "On average, we managed savings of 17 to 36 per cent across the board," he said. ...