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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
... arable land these results are not too bad and will have been made better as a result of favourable prices for most agricultural goods. Analysis of the 2006 census data in comparison to that for 2002 shows that there has been an overall increase in the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... that the surplus for the next budget would be about 1 per cent of GDP. The reduction by 20 per cent of the national agricultural production as a consequence is likely to put pressure on the Federal government to reach its targeted budget surplus of $10.8 ...

Agribusiness still appeals to lenders

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... levels have tended to follow those values," Jennings said. Rural land values have been affected by the strength of agricultural commodity markets, by farm consolidation, by low interest rates and to some degree by lifestyle investments such as "tree ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
The acting executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Karen Schneider, said that earnings from commodity exports are expected to increase by 14 per cent to $140 billion in 2006-07, of which minerals and energy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
... World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, has moved the deadline for several key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 of those countries. While the US has offered ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... cent of estimated world GDP it started to decline. A meeting of the 18 countries involved in the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries has reiterated its call for a freer market for agricultural goods. The group of twenty developing countries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... in the price of crude oil from around US$77 to now be around US$64 a barrel. Analysis of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics data shows that the resource sector's contribution to exports rose from 37 per cent in the March quarter ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... exchange for access to the Chinese market in the professions of engineering, architecture and law as well as the agricultural sector. US oil exploration company Chevron has just announced that, as a result of two years of drilling off the Gulf of Mexico ...

Biotech looms as boom sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... However, with impetus to push into expanded ranges of therapeutic products for aging boomers, enhancements to boost agricultural efficiency, produce foods, and for biofuel technology it presents big opportunities for astute investors. Indeed, reflecting ...