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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... overnight. Crude oil for July delivery fell more than $US2.00 to $US122.30 per barrel on the back of a sharp increase in US inventories and on news that India and Malaysia had cut fuel subsidies. Woodside Petroleum lost $4.15, or 6.49 per cent, to $59.45 ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... 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 factors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... International Trade in Goods and Services for October, as well as business indicators, including company profits and business inventories, for the September quarter. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing ...

Under-building down under

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... foreclosures figures that has left an oversupply of stock. A report released today by nabCapital noted, "US unsold new home inventories remain higher than normal". "With the stock of unsold new homes in the US relative to sales now at 8.2 months of supply ...

Morgan Stanley launches carbon bank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... Initiative, a standard adopted by the European Unions Emissions Trading Scheme. Morgan Stanley and DNV review the inventories and then allocate carbon credits equivalent to the company's carbon output. All carbon trading is done according to Kyoto Protocol ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract rose 39 points to 6113 on a volume of 6,781 contracts. Falling inventories and expectations of demand rising in the seasonally busy second quarter lifted industrial metals last night. The bellwether ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... this increase in expenditure on GDP were household final consumption expenditure (0.7 per cent) and private non-farm inventories (0.6 per cent). It was the imports of goods and services that acted to reduce GDP by 1.4 percentage points. At the industry ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... consecutive quarter that the D&B survey has shown negative expectations for growth in sales, profits, employment and inventories. In excess of half (51 per cent) of the firms surveyed said that they had experienced a positive impact upon their business ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... have been marginal with negative ones coming from business investment, private dwelling and the run down of private inventories. Non-farm GDP increased by 0.6 per cent reflecting that the result has been weighed down by the national drought. Total inventories ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... operating profits over the last year and a 6.2 per cent increase in wages and salaries. Otherwise, on the same basis, inventories have fallen by 1.1 per cent and wholesale trade has risen by 1.8 per cent indicating production and capacity pressures have ...