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HK investors win big on game show

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Hong Kong's securities and futures market regulator is taking financial literacy to another level with a three-stage investments game show where contestants can win up to $7,000 in cash prizes. The first round of the Securities and Futures Commission ...

NY fund blacklists Gazprom and Petrobras

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
The New York State Common Retirement Fund has pulled out $100 million of the fund's investments in nine companies including Gazprom, Oil & Natural Gas Corp and Petrobras on the back of a genocide report. The New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... Office of Financial Management conducts a tender process for $700 million in April 2010 Treasury bonds. In company news, wheat exporter AWB and brewer Lion Nathan release first-half results. Construction materials supplier James Hardie Industries releases ...

Market Wrap - Midday

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... and it's looking worse. "The US is looking terrible overnight. That's why they're all panicking." In the news, however, wheat exporter and agricultural services company AWB has reported a 137 per cent rise in annual profit, after benefiting from strong ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... coincide. At the same time, energy, metal, bulk resources and other commodity prices have hit record highs, for example wheat prices, which have surged 130 per cent. These factors, Adriaan Ryder, QIC managing director of strategy, said has fuelled a ...

Kenya budgets right for investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... "The zero rating of rice and bread could translate to an immediate 16 per cent reduction in their prices. Duty on imported wheat was also reduced from 35 per cent to 10 per cent and could translate to further relief." Old Mutual also noted that the stringent ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... export earnings are forecast to increase by 40 per cent next year to a record $212 billion. Agricultural exports including wheat, barley, canola, pulses, grain sorghum, cotton lint and seed, sugar and wine - long hit by drought and currency markets - ...

UBS launches soft com and Asia prod

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... to the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Excess Return Index comprising of futures contracts from a basket of commodities including wheat, corn, soybeans and live cattle. The product also provides exposure to emerging and developed markets in Asia including China ...

Agribusiness needs careful planning

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... play but you don't want to overuse them. It's fine to get into them this year, it might be a last opportunity to get into wheat, olives and the like," said Thomas. However Thomas' two main concerns rest in the quantity and quality of the investment's ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... soft commodity prices and necessitating the Indian government's move and the cash injection call by President Bush is how wheat prices have jumped 50 per cent during the last year. The price of rice spiking 50 per cent in just the past month only reinforces ...