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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks slipped on lingering concerns about the health of the financial system. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract lost 37 points, or 0.75 per ...

Agribusiness needs careful planning

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
If you're thinking about investing in olives and almonds, timber and teak to cash in on the tax benefits, experts warn you need to invest with care. According to AXA head of strategy Robert Thomas, agribusiness may look like a portal of tax cost-slashing ...

Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
Australia's reputation as the lucky country could even extend into climate change with the Farm Institute saying it will lead to Australia boosting its agricultural output and becoming wealthier. "Australian agricultural output is projected to continue ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Sub-prime was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
While Australian exports are booming and industry is rolling along so well that their biggest complaint is why there is too little labour supply, our high current account deficit (CAD) means we are more vulnerable than we think, no matter how much we ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession, but they are saying Rudd will have to create his own economic luck if he is to repeat the Howard midas touch.

Syncsoft reboots with Microsoft

... delivering customer solutions," said Page. Co-founder and chief system designer Brett Christie said, "It was such a stroke of luck gaining such early access to the next generation Microsoft technologies. We already had some good ideas but couldn't see ...

Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
Did he jump or was he pushed? Either way Merrill Lynch boss Stanley O'Neal will be wearing a large golden parachute to ensure his soft landing, despite the investment bank's recent announcement of spectacular sub-prime losses. As Bloomberg tells it ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
As the saying goes, 'when one door closes, another one opens' but with China, it's more a case of opening a small foreign investment window while firmly locking the door. Early last month, Chinese regulators announced that the government would allow ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...