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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... hopefully more competitive Australian economy. Discussions about the nearly seventy year old monopoly position of the Australian Wheat Board have heated up even further with the US government threatening action unless the system is changed. At a time ...

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... soldiers. The fund also has small investments in some of the worlds largest tobacco firms. Also on the list is the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), recently vilified over the oil for food scandal in Iraq and poor corporate governance standards, as well ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... farmer is likely to suffer a loss of about $65,000 this year, a level not experienced for more than two decades. While the wheat crop is expected to be about 60 per cent than last year, the good news is that its price has risen from $176 to $329 per ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... third. NSW and Victoria are expected to have a crop just a third the size of last year's. While on the positive side the wheat price has nearly doubled since January, its production is expected to be down about 60 per cent, rice production is about 80 ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... with nickel and lead prices having reached record highs in the last week and tin being its highest for nearly two decades. Wheat has also reached a decade long high and this has come at a time when global output is expected to fall by more than 5 per ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... list behind Switzerland and Sweden. The small slide in rating is said to be due to the bribes scandal that the Australian Wheat Board has been embroiled in. The emerging economies such as China, Brazil, India and Russia had poorer reputations than the ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... cent. ABARE noted that the winter harvest is expected to be down by about 36 per cent from the 2005-06 figure within which wheat is forecast to drop by 35 per cent, barley by 41 per cent and canola is expected to be the smallest crop in a decade. The ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... is facing a 36 per cent fall in the grain harvest expected over this forthcoming season is that the prices being paid for wheat and barley futures are reaching record levels. Barley has risen by almost fifty per cent in the last couple of months as result ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... cent of New South Wales are drought effected. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics(ABARE) is forecasting the wheat harvest to be 21 per cent below the five years average, the barley crop to be 41 per cent below and the canola take to be 50 ...

Daily economic update

... As expected, stronger prices in our commodity exports underpin the increase. The price of gold, coal, alumina, aluminium, wheat, sugar and manganese ores and concentrates all rose during the December quarter. Price declines for exports of crude petroleum ...

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Aware Super reshapes governance team, appoints chief risk officer

VINNY VUCAGO  |   12:28PM
Aware Super has announced a leadership reshuffle, appointing a new chief risk officer amid the departure of its long-serving group executive of legal.

IFM lifts stake in Atlas Arteria to 40% after upping offer price

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:37PM
IFM Investors has raised its stake in Atlas Arteria from 34.5% to 38.3% in an on-market stock purchase, just a day after it raised its offer price for the toll road operator to $5.10 per security.

Zenith bolsters research, investment capabilities with new hires

MATTHEW WAI  |   10:54AM
Zenith has announced two senior appointments to strengthen its research and portfolio management divisions.

Regulators push for stronger stress-testing capability, resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |   11:52AM
The ability to remain resilient and manage liquidity pressures amid severe, multi-dimensional stress scenarios is an area of focus that APRA and ASIC want superannuation funds to improve.

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