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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after a late surge left Wall Street higher, recovering from being around two per cent down in late afternoon trading. At 0810 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... increase by 40 per cent next year to a record $212 billion. Agricultural exports including wheat, barley, canola, pulses, grain sorghum, cotton lint and seed, sugar and wine - long hit by drought and currency markets - are set to attract record revenues ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
The Australian share market may open higher after US stocks gained overnight on a stronger-than-expected durable manufactured goods report. Declines in all industrial metals prices may weigh on resource stocks, however. At 0701 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... Express Holdings Ltd announces third quarter results. Norfolk Group Ltd and Vodafone Australia report annual results. ABB Grain Ltd reports interim results. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed more than one per cent lower, dragged down by the ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... it's changing our food consumption patterns because the more urbanised the world becomes the more meat we eat and the more grain fed beef cattle we need, with the irony that poor third world food consumers are being pushed aside in favour of hungry beef ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... fully appreciate - and welcome. Oil today reaching $US114 is just the tip of this commodities price rise cycle however as grain inventories reaching some of their lowest levels in years being accompanied by uncertain output volumes due to climate change ...

Superfund Group pans for Australian gold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... futures markets worldwide. According to Baha, the firm's trading software profited from strong upward trends in the price of grain and oilseed as a result of a boost in Chinese demand in February.

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... followed ACF's report that a vast majority of government-run funds were making investment decisions that go against the grain of reducing emissions and battling climate change. The study of 36 federal, state and territory investment funds, which boasts ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Grain prices climbing to record levels, combined with encouraging rainfall, is stirring excitement in the agribusiness sector for farmers and investors. "Farmers should be planning to cash-in on the predicted high grain prices and plant substantial ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... oil, metals and foodstuffs. "Problems with pig-meat in China have added to inflation there but growing global shortages of grain has been a major contributing factor," said Orlic.