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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street as investors remained positive about the prospects of economic recovery. At 0736 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 46 ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... impending recovery. And its name is protectionism. During the Great Depression, the US Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on American imports. Didn't work. Never would. Why? Because other countries retaliated with their own ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... new laws were also introduced so that the Americans won't relive the pain and desperation ever again. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 - aimed at protecting jobs at home by raising import tariffs - and the National Labour Relations Act of 1935 - giving ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... force up the profits of carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens MP from the German parliament told Financial Standard that if the goal ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... the only government trying to intervene into the markets. The Chinese government recently imposed a 25 per cent export tariff to help keep grain in the country, reported the China Daily earlier this year. Similar export tariffs also apply to fertilizers. ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has raised the issue of the tax treatment of Private Equity firms operating in Australia noting a concern that the increasing level of corporate activity in the private equity space could mean the associated higher levels ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
Following the announcement by the US that it would impose tariffs on imported paper products from China after its research had shown that they were being subsidized by 10-20 per cent, trade negotiations have become more urgent as key players perceive ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Some key data that the Reserve Bank of Australia will need for its decision on the next interest rate move, being retail trade activity, has just been released and it shows the January rebound of a revised 0.8 per cent which is nearly as high as its ...

Going nuts over macadamias

... Australian companies have also broadened their customer base to include Germany and Japan. More importantly, the 17.6 per cent tariff on processed macadamia imported to the USA is expected to be phased out over the next five years. One catch, however ...