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Deutsche Bank dismisses mining fears

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... mining investment in recent years and going forward for the Australian economy, the June quarter business investment (or capex) report released today was always going to be important in terms of getting a gauge on the outlook for the Australian economy. ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... water scarcity released by Moody's last Friday. The report is entitled "Global Mining Industry: Water Scarcity to Raise Capex and Operating Costs, Heighten Operational Risks" and suggests that environmental factors such as water scarcity could negatively ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... his dog that has a screen and mouse are in on the action. Cheerleading is FT Alphaville with its headline, "Australia's capex cliff," putting it out there that "... the developed world's fastest growing... will fall in to recession next year as the China-driven ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... in March (expectations +0.2%) with sales volumes rising by 1.8% in the quarter - also more than the expected 0.4% gain. Capex. Happy consumers spend. Businesses happy. Actual total private new capital expenditure jumped by 30% in the year to December ...

Infra transport spending to jump 123%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... to a long term rise in demand for industrial property in regional areas, they added. But as impressive as the $41 billion capex sounds it will still hardly dent the massive national infrastructure backlog that Clayton Utz in May this year reported was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... the ratio of export prices to import prices. "One of the growth engines of the Australian economic outlook is the private capex upswing and that is showing up also in the terms of trade."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... strong. ANZ senior markets dealer Alex Sinton said the Australian dollar was pushed up by the higher oil price but Thursday's capex figures also helped its rise. "In a sense it is the stronger euro and the oil price that is certainly helping it," he ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... cent of companies meeting with Fidelity International report strong balance sheets with a focus in the next 12 months on capex, dividends and buy-backs. While most of these companies have built up cash from cash accumulated throughout the GFC, combined ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... their lucky stars that the pace of contraction in their economies have slowed in the second quarter, yesterday's Australian capex report suggests that their mouths would be watering more when our own second quarter economic scorecard is released next ...

Today's the day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... labour market would remove the major underpinning behind consumer spending but as the second quarter company profits and capex reports show, Australian businesses continue to generate good profits, which they then turn into investment in capital and ...