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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... Infrastructure Fund and Billabong International. Interim results are due from Caltex Australia Ltd. The market awaits a statement from ABC Learning, which yesterday requested a trading halt on its shares pending an announcement. Yesterday, the Australian ...

Rates on hold thanks to oil prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... Securities-Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge. TD Securities senior strategist Joshua Williamson however told the ABC that he supports the Reserve's view that inflation will climb down from the mountain. Perhaps ironically, the monetary savior ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors, told ABC Radio this morning that oil prices should be about US$80-90 per barrel based purely on the fundamentals of demand and supply. ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... rumors in the US that Toyota and GM may joint venture hybrid production in California in a bid to lower production costs. The ABC has reported the government will allocate $35 million to the Toyota Australia deal. Whether it's equally generous to GM ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... advocates include a former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz and now Columbia University professor, who told ABC Radio that "countries that follow inflation targets are more likely to get themselves into trouble". Stiglitz, who won the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... annual general meetings. Timbercorp Ltd releases first half results. Commonwealth Bank provides a market update, retiring ABC Learning Centres Ltd chair Sallyanne Atkinson speaks at Australian Institute of Company Directors lunch in Melbourne, and Fortescue ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... increase after increase and not look at their own cost structures a little more closely," Health Minister Nicola Roxon told the ABC. The government seeing the surcharge as a tax designed exclusively to boost the coffers of private health insurers doesn't ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... really need the government's help are those earning $60,000 and below, not high income earners. The comments were reported on ABC radio. "They're the people who make up the vast majority of our country [and the people] we need to look after," he said. ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... have the same pre-occupation with home ownership as previous generations," Michael McNamara, APM's operations manager, told ABC radio this morning. McNamara said they "want to be where the action is", not out in the boondocks paying off a suburban house. ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... food industry, particularly given how successful it seems to be - an idea that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago. The ABC recently reported that chairman and chief executive of food producing giant Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, said the growing ...