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Bribery and corruption concerns for super

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... Billiton and Rio Tinto were the companies with the most rigorous approach to managing bribery and corruption risk, but smaller mining companies as well as financial services companies were high-risk areas. Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie Group, for example ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... deflation currently. Meanwhile, US non-farm payrolls figures for March were due out on Friday night (AEDT). On the market, mining stocks, which have been hit hard during the past couple of days, rose in early trade. BHP Billiton was among the better ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Australian stocks have opened weaker, with mining companies posting the largest falls amid broad based declines. Baillieu Holst director Richard Morrow said the local market fell in line with a disappointing night on offshore markets, where the Dow ...

Climate change already affecting investments: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... investors thought the declines on Tuesday may have been a bit overdone. Despite the move higher on Wednesday, Mr Daghlian said mining stocks were expected to remain under pressure given weak iron ore prices. "Overall, things seem to be tough going for ...

Shortage of reliable Aussie income products

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... levels of free cashflow. It features names such as ASX, the big four banks, Telstra and Woolworths and avoids sector such as mining, where earnings are more erratic. Birtles said he was laying down the gauntlet to the Australian financial services industry ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... $30.41. Freight rail operator Aurizon gained 4.5 cents to $4.015 after it won a coal haulage contract in Queensland with mining giant Xstrata. On Wall Street, the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its ninth gain in a row, giving the index ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... further spurs, it doesn't look as if there's anything to take the market higher at the moment." Commodity price rises boosted mining stocks, with BHP Billiton lifting 20 cents to at $35.87, and Rio Tinto adding 56 cents to $62.48. Among the major banks ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... cent in January compared with December, official data showed, while a wider measure of industrial production that includes mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply dropped by 1.2 per cent in January from December. HONG KONG - Asian markets ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... climb to new highs. The early gains were being held back by some nervousness in the financial sector and weakness among mining stocks, IG Markets strategist Stan Shamu said. "We're just a touch higher at the moment," he said. "Yesterday what was driving ...