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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... Commission preliminary hearing opened in Greymouth on Tuesday. NZOG has a 29 per cent shareholding in Pike River, the West Coast coal mine where an explosion last November killed 29 men. The market did not react to the release of the New Zealand Institute ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Diversified conglomerate Wesfarmers strengthened nine cents to $32.54 after it said second quarter prices for its metallurgical coal from the Curragh mine in Queensland would rise by about 53 per cent from the prior quarter. Retailer Woolworths firmed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... of 125.7 billion yuan ($A18.55 billion). Coalminers led the gains on hopes that high oil prices would push up the price of coal. Banks also rose as their valuations remain at a relatively low level compared with the broader market. TOKYO - Japanese shares ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Thousands of 100-year-old baby boomers will live out their last days in poverty unless superannuation changes are passed, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

Record NSW election loss could slow federal reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
A record breaking 16.5 per cent swing last weekend against the NSW Labor Party has the potential to derail many of the Gillard federal government's reforms, pushing a nervous federal government to pull more of its punches on major changes to the financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... by the resource giant that it would spend nearly $US10 billion to expand iron ore operations and energy and metallurgical coal projects in Western Australia. "I think part of the (selloff) is to do with this rumour," Mr Leppinus said. "A lot of analysts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
The Australian share market is set for a nervous start on Monday, after the US and a coalition of forces launched air strikes on Libya over the weekend. At 0731 AEDT, the June share price index contract was 18 points lower at 4,629 points, with 5,745 ...

Equipsuper launches 'clever' insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... our occupational rating factors and things that affected a lot of our members. Being down in the La Trobe valley we've got coal miners who were struggling with some of those occupational ratings so we've been able to renegotiate," she said. Equipsuper ...

Climate change choice - market or regulation?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... investment portfolios and super fund returns. These external factors, argued Dr Garnaut, are why for example the Australian coal industry should not be overly worried by Australia's carbon policies but by what policies are introduced overseas. "So much ...