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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... Macquarie Media Group, and Babcock & Brown Communities Group all listing full year results today. In resources, MacArthur Coal Ltd reveals full year earnings as will Origin Energy Ltd. Westfield releases first half results. On Tuesday, the Australian ...

Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Prime Minister John Howard has announced plans to establish an infrastructure fund similar to that proposed by the Labor party, with a minimum of one per cent of budget surpluses to go into the fund. The announcement came as part of his five-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose in quiet trade as life insurers outperformed, with Ping An supported by a broker upgrade and coal stocks helped by record coal prices. The Hang Seng Index closed up 116.22 points to end at 22,007.32. WELLINGTON - The NZSX-50 ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel, who spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly supply bottlenecks, South Korea's biggest steel maker has threatened to take its business ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

Election looms over investment markets

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
The upcoming Federal election could generate market uncertainty but with the two major parties' having similar broader macroeconomic policies, it's unlikely any market jitters will last. In a discussion paper on a possible election back-lash on the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... Santos announced today it would build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at Gladstone in Queensland, which would process coal seam gas for sale into export markets. The facility is expected to cost a total of $5 billion to $7 billion. On the New ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... threatening to take a hike as in reality they may have limited alternatives. However, they are concerned about "very grave" coal ship queues at Newcastle and Dalrymple Bay and will be attending an all-day briefing with coal mining and transport companies ...

Clean, green profit machines

... executive director Michael Walsh said the sector's stellar performance in 2007 was partly due to the 300 plus returns of coal seam gas companies including Queensland Gas Company, Arrow Energy, Eastern Star Gas and Metgasco. Not to be outdone, shares ...

Boomers care more for environment than super

Baby Boomers, often referred to as the "Me Generation", are actually more concerned with environmental issues than their superannuation, according to a poll by the National Seniors Association (NSA). Covering 500 baby boomers (defined as having been ...