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Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... significant increases in both full-time and part-time jobs; and, the surging price of our biggest commodity export - iron ore - one that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury forecast in the Budget Papers 2020/2021 and/or provide the ...

Franking credits more important than ever

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... expect this to be sustainable in the foreseeable future and believe there remains a positive outlook for the price of iron ore," Gardner said. "Rio Tinto and BHP are other notable dividend payers at the moment which offer retirees the additional benefit ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... and staff, stimulating more hiring......and lessen the need for more government spending. Not only that, the price of iron ore keeps on going and going... up. Iron ore accounts for over 25% of Australia's total goods exports. To date, iron ore prices ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... is no value." Further to this, Conlon said resources companies like BHP and Rio Tinto are unlikely to be disrupted as iron ore has done well but even commodities like alumina and oil which have been the reverse, will not. "The way that we see is that ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
Like the Energizer bunny, the price of iron ore keeps on going and going and going... up. And this, despite the coronavirus pandemic still doing the rounds on Earth - ongoing first wave or second wave - with worldometer.com's latest stats showing ...

AustralianSuper welcomes Rio Tinto departure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... Jacques would step down from his role as chief executive and Chris Salisbury would also leave his role as chief executive, iron ore. AustralianSuper, which Rainmaker analysis indicates has over $1 billion invested in Rio Tinto, was among those to welcome ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... executive has been elected; whichever arises sooner. Additionally, Chris Salisbury will step down as chief executive, iron ore with immediate effect and Simone Niven will step down as group executive, corporate relations, effective 31 December 2020. ...

Dividends ripe for the picking

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... relying on dividend income have traditionally looked to the big four banks, other opportunities have emerged including iron ore miners and gold miners. "We anticipate Australia's gold miners will also continue to perform well on the back of global economic ...

Robinhood effect steers share market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... and artificial intelligence developments over the next five years; Mineral Resources will be buoyed from the boom in iron ore prices; and Metcash will see more customer traffic in its subsidiary IGA as COVID-19 will force people to shop down the street. ...

Calls for Rio chief to be sacked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... paid to chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques, corporate relations group executive Simone Niven or chief executive of iron ore Chris Salisbury. Jacques will forgo about AUD $4.9 million, Niven will forgo just under AUD $1 million and Salisbury will ...