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Markets still at risk: Tagliaferro

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... mining stock Fortescue Metals as an example, he said, "Despite the fact that Fortescue is yet to produce a truckload of iron ore it is valued more than Qantas is. If this didn't actually happen, you would not believe it." Tagliaferro said investors and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... In Australia, BHP Billiton has awarded an indigenous company a $300 million contract to manage and operate the Yarrie iron ore mine in Western Australia's Northern Pilbara. Shares in BHP were seven cents lower at $38.37 while Rio Tinto shot up $2.30 ...

Sydney on $24 million a day

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... joined the list of our cranky-export-customers. Contrary to Greenpeace's opinion, China has been complaining that coal and iron ore are not coming out of Australia fast enough. According to an Australian Financial Review report, Chinese President Hu ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel, who spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly supply bottlenecks, South Korea's biggest steel maker has threatened to take its business elsewhere. ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... bottlenecks. Nippon steel is a customer not easily ignored. Spending around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore, it is one of our single largest customers and an investor in several mining projects. Nippon first raised concerns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... seven points to 6401. In company news today, Djerriwarrh Investments Ltd full year results are due, and Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd holds it annual general meeting. Tel.Pacific Ltd lists on the ASX. On Friday, Australian stocks ended higher, propelled ...

Asian hub Australia's next goal: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... did for us in the 1800s, what agriculture did for us in the 1900s and what resources are currently doing," he said. "Iron ore resources are finite, the knowledge and capacity of our people are not." Australia had many advantages, he said, such as its ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... Statistics will releases the actual figures tomorrow at 11:30am in Sydney. Australia is the world's largest shipper of iron ore and coal and in our 16th straight year of expansion, many believe exports will be the driver of yet faster economic growth ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... total nickel production is up 62 per cent. Raw imports are up significantly too with bauxite increasing by 290 per cent, iron ore up 26 per cent, nickel ore up 3140 per cent and zinc concentrates up 11 per cent. On the other hand the Macquarie Bank research ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... changed despite stronger metals prices overnight. BHP Billiton announced it had approved a major expansion to its Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia, which will increase annual output to 155 million tonnes, however, the resource giant's ...