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Economic round-up: Currency and commodities

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
... drawing rights (SDR) terms in June, but is up 6.3 per cent year on year. The forecasts of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) predict growth in mineral and energy commodity prices and exports will boost Australia's commodity ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... exports with record rainfalls in the southeastern grain-producing regions. According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Australia's wheat production is expected to more than double from the previous years drought ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... billion, which requires immediate attention, " CEDA said. The CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics have authored a report, obtained by The Australian Financial Review and yet to be presented to ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... share price index was down 10 points, at 6368. In company news, Dyno Nobel holds its AGM, as does the Australian Agricultural Company. SP Ausnet will also post annual results. At yesterday's stockmarket close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.3 ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... benefits, in addition to converting harmful greenhouse gases to oxygen." The trees chosen will be planted on bare agricultural land, forming windbreaks and providing economic benefits for the landowners. Under the program, CO2 Australia will establish ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
... in December of last year ended in a stalemate. Presently the US and the EU have been unable to agree on reforms of agricultural trade practices. Both of these economic powerhouses refuse to open up their trade to the import of agricultural goods from ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... listened to as well as he would like in the case of the climate change discussion either. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics has updated its forecast about the production of crops in Australia saying that the rice crop is expected to fall ...

SELECT taps into futures with new fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
... directional movements in over 80 global futures markets including bonds, currencies, interest rates, stock indices, agricultural, energy and metal markets. "The Futures Fund will be accessed as a building block for those investors that want access to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Some good news on the agricultural commodities front has at last surfaced with the recent rains across the eastern seaboard improving the condition and consequently the selling prices for sheep, cattle and wheat. Sheep prices have about tripled in the ...

DeAM launches global agribusiness fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... fund is the worldwide economic growth, rising income levels in the developing world, the declining availability of agricultural land, and investment opportunities being stirred by global warming. The DWS Global Equity Agribusiness Fund will invest across ...