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PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... the process behind each is not all that different. On Saturday 8 August, Sowerby completed the 54km swim from the English coast to mainland Europe. The achievement, which he is hoping will raise $1 million for the Starlight Children's Foundation, was ...

QIC consortium buys $1.78bn gas facility

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
A QIC led consortium has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Iona Gas Storage Facility west of Melbourne in Victoria from EnergyAustralia, a member of the China Light & Power Group. The consortium, comprising the QIC Global Infrastructure ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... quarter of last year. While we've all been given the excuse of the severe winter weather, the strong US dollar, the West Coast shipping strike and "erroneous seasonal adjustment" for another one of those weak first quarter in America... certainly, the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... earnings, fell 2.5 per cent after announcing first-quarter results that missed market expectations. The company blamed the West Coast port slowdown and severe winter weather early in the quarter for sales that came in lower than it had forecast. Other ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... negative in the second estimate. While the blow out in the trade deficit may be "transitory" - the port strike on the West Coast (a major contributing factor) had been settled in mid-March - the continuing strength in the US dollar would continue to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... below the 1.0 per cent projected by analysts due in part to extremely harsh winter weather in some regions and the West Coast port strike. The US Federal Reserve said the slower growth was due "in part" to transitory factors and that the economy should ...

AMP Capital names successor to property fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... industrial property sectors. This includes the newly-developed Macquarie Centre in Sydney; Pacific Fair on Queensland's Gold Coast, which is currently undergoing significant re-development; and potential developments at Garden City Booragoon in Western ...

IFM acquires US$5.7 billion highway

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... billion. The ITR spans northern Indiana to the Illinois state line and runs for 253 km. It connects highways between east coast cities, Chicago, and western United States. The ITRCC has exclusive toll collection rights on the highway and earns rental ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... was five cents weaker at $35.25 and National Bank had shed 15 cents to $37.61. Telstra was flat at $6.20. Shares in Gold Coast theme park owner Ardent Leisure Group have dropped more than 17 per cent, or 42 cents to $2.01. The group has issued a statement ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... Woodside had eased 73 cents to $38.83 as it said it would push ahead with its $1.2 billion Persephone gas project off the West Australian coast. Santos was 35 cents, or nearly 3%, off at $11.63 and Oil Search was 18 cents down at $8.52.