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Fincorp failure burns 8,000 investors

Around 8,000 investors will either lose all their money or get back 30Ac in the dollar following the collapse of property group Fincorp. KordaMentha, the insolvency administrator appointed to the case, said that preliminary figures showed that about ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... 90 per cent and cotton by about 58 per cent. Sorghum is expected to fall by about 54 per cent and following the driest winter on record, the wheat crop is now expected to be down about 64 per cent. The negative impact of the drought upon national GDP ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... impact about 60 per cent of the nation's arable land as opposed to the forecast of 40 per cent a couple of months ago. The winter crop is anticipated to be down by about 60 per cent to the lowest for a decade and the summer crop is forecast to down about ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... Australian businesses and consumers. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) now says that the winter crop will be about 60 per cent less than last year and perhaps the worst for a decade. In recent weeks the extent of the ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... services had experience 5 months of sluggish sales, department stores have been declining for about a quarter after earlier winter sales and recreational good retailing has been on the decrease for 15 months. Together these sales figures indicated a ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... years, the US Department of Agriculture is reported to have said last week. Adding to the price pressure, the Australian winter harvest is anticipated to be down more than 50 per cent as a function of 40 per cent of the nation being drought affected. ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... Export earnings from the farm sector are anticipated to be about $28 billion, a rise of 2.3 per cent. ABARE noted that the winter harvest is expected to be down by about 36 per cent from the 2005-06 figure within which wheat is forecast to drop by 35 ...

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ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
... since its mid-July record high of US$78.40 a barrel. There are still some downward pressures on the black gold with robust winter fuel stocks and easing geopolitical and weather risks to oil supplies. The Australian share market opened slightly weaker ...

Daily economic update

... production fell by 0.2 per cent in January. This is because of the unusually warm weather during the Northern Hemisphere winter, which brought utility production down by a massive 10.2 per cent during the month. US manufacturing output continued to expand ...

Moderate growth outlook for US: Fidelity

... oil prices due to refineries being damaged around the region by the hurricane to hit household budgets in the upcoming US winter. This suggests, according to Collins, that consumer demand may flatten somewhat with possible knock-on affects in other parts ...