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Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... loans to investors hit by the billion dollar collapse of agribusiness Great Southern has won court approval. The agricultural projects manager, which raised $1.8 billion and managed 45 investment schemes, collapsed in 2009. Victorian Supreme Court Justice ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... website Kerr "has been trading commodities since 1989" and "currently manages the Cane Garden Capital institutional agricultural fund." I'll see your US$300 and raise you US$378! Arabianbusiness.com quoted Matthew Simmons -- chairman and founder of specialised ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... past few months have rationalised that the absence of a major policy action (there targeted easing for big banks and agricultural banks) - in the face of slowing China growth means that the Politburo is now willing to tolerate slower China growth. How ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... cents to $12.64 after reporting a strong jump in half year operating profit. Beef and cattle producer Australian Agricultural Company scraped off one cent to $1.495 after reporting a first half loss of $13.59 million, but it was an improvement on the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... Telecom advanced 31 cents to $6.91 after the company said it expected to grow earnings 25 per cent over the next year. Agricultural chemicals and seeds provider Nufarm climbed 44 cents, or 10.92 per cent, to $4.47 after it said it was confident of lifting ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... half hour of trade. The Dow was also lifted by a call from activist investor Trian Partners to break up chemical and agricultural seed company DuPont into two companies. DuPont finished 5.2 per cent higher, by far the biggest gain in the 30-stock blue-chip ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... true". Do the financial markets really believe that the US/EU v Russia tiff (for now) is over? Putin bans food and agricultural imports from the US/EU and their allies - and deliberating on over introducing "supportive measures" for its auto, shipping ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... rose 2.22 (0.05 per cent) to 4,355.05. Russian President Vladimir Putin slapped one-year bans and limits on food and agricultural imports from nations that have imposed sanctions on Russia over its defiant stance on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch's ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... from any new medium- or long-term financing transactions with VTB Bank, its subsidiary Bank of Moscow and Russian Agricultural Bank. All three are controlled by the Russian government. Standard & Poor's has declared Argentina in "selective default" on ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... into the opaque management of government-controlled firms. China Investment Corporation (CIC), Bank of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China violated regulations in areas including asset selling, loan issuance and fraudulent invoicing, according ...