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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... Trujillo will attend a store opening in Melbourne. The Opes Prime case continues. The International Consumer Card Credit Summit 2008 will be held in Sydney, and IBA will release an update on the health market. Fortescue Metals Group chief financial officer ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... energy minister Martin Ferguson was yesterday lambasted by the Federal Opposition for not pressuring OPEC at the Jeddah oil summit to lift production supply. But since Australia accounts for less than one per cent of world oil demand and we only import ...

AXA term deposit up by 25 pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
AXA Australia saw a 25 per cent increase in term deposit investments after adding ANZ and Westpac Bank onto its Summit investment menu on 26 May this year. Investors can choose from 30, 90 or 130 day options and yearly options of one and two years with ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... momentum. Saudi Arabia, the world's second largest producer of oil behind Russia, has announced it is convening a world oil summit so buyers and sellers can get to the bottom of what is driving the "unjustified" oil price rises. So much for last weekend's ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Minister, concerned about the inflationary aspects of high oil prices on Australia and the world economy, wants this month's G8 Summit in Japan to strong-arm the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) into increasing supplies which should ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The 2020 Summit final report has good news for infrastructure investors looking for directional certainty. The 399 page report lists three big ideas to help Australian investors build new infrastructure that should influence government policy around ...

AETS could add 14 cents to petrol prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... cents per litre of fuel," said Sean Lucy, director at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, speaking at the National Emissions Trading Summit this morning. In Europe however carbon has been trading at about A$35 per tonne implying that should European prices become ...

Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... countries to protectionism, which has already been seen." Despite these challenges, delegates at a recent climate change summit convened by the Farm Institute carried the view that Australian agriculture continued to have an incredibly optimistic future ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... are about as bad as it gets and reinforce why groups like the Australian Medical Association were not invited to the 2020 Summit. So what are the take-outs for superannuation and wealth management especially as they prepare their predictable string of ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
One of the major recommendations that came out of the recent 2020 Summit was for a "root and branch" review of tax system even though we all know this is just code for Prime Minister Rudd wanting to increase, not lower, the tax take. Case in point is ...