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Australian Ethical Investments go global

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
Investors who want ethical investments with a global bent can avail of a new product that does exactly that after the Australian Ethical Investment launched its first internationally focused trust. The ethical fund manager already has an equities trust ...

Economic round-up: Creaming cheese exports

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
With our Aussie dollar flirting around the US86c mark, it's keeping a lid on inflation but exporters, except those sending cream cheese to Korea, are really feeling the bite. Our dollar's strength is positively impacting imports, and price increases ...

Economic round-up: Another day, another record

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
As our dollar continues challenging its own records, and puts the squeeze on smaller mining companies, soaring takeover activity sees Australia join a world gone M&A mad. The Australian dollar strengthened almost 20 per cent against the greenback in ...

Biotech fund breaks into $4bn hearing loss sector

Listed fund BioTech Capital is making a play for the $4 billion hearing loss industry by injecting $2 million into hearing technology company Sensear. Sensear is a Western Australian-based company that was spun off the Western Australian Telecommunications ...

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
In Western Australia some small businesses have had to close because they cannot compete in the wage wars with mining companies who are offering premium pay packets to workers. There is increasing pressure on the hospitality, retail and manufacturing ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
While we continue to ride the resources boom, it seems that our cash starved infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout ...

Surging dollar prompts mixed views on fall-out

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
Nipping at the heels of its 1990 high against the US dollar, the Australian dollar, climbing steadily since early March, has reached a 17-year peak overnight on Tuesday of $0.8365. Although cyclicals such as resources, materials and energy come out ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher in the wake of near record highs on Wall Street and overnight gains in commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0656 AEST, the June share price index contract was trading up 21 points ...

Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
As investors try to exploit the commodities boom in emerging economies, governments of these economies are staking their own ownership claims by nationalising parts of their resources industries. The Australian Government Export Finance Investment Corporation ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger today as US markets ended higher and as rising energy prices promise to buoy shares of major mining companies. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0816 AEDT, the December share price index contract ...