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Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has finally ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
Former Watson Wyatt partner and senior investment consultant, Andrew Spence, will move north to join Queensland-based boutique Hyperion Asset Management as a senior portfolio manager, becoming the first new team member in 10 years. Spence resigned from ...

Economic round-up - Baby take a bow

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... deterioration in our export performance. This has been masked by China's insatiable demand on our key commodities, such as coal and iron, which has pushed up market prices more than it has volumes. The challenge going forward for policy makers will be ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... will releases the actual figures tomorrow at 11:30am in Sydney. Australia is the world's largest shipper of iron ore and coal and in our 16th straight year of expansion, many believe exports will be the driver of yet faster economic growth with ever ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout the state while earlier this week 51 ships were queued for a backlog of coal that Queensland Rail ...

Fidelity responds to Darfur campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
Fidelity Investments is beginning to divest its Sudanese holdings following pressure from interest groups that include the Save Darfur Coalition (SDC) which launched an aggressive TV, mobile billboard and transit station advertising campaign criticising ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... was down 18 points to 6,376, on a volume of 1,614 contracts. Today in equities news Rio Tinto will be talking about clean coal technology and a deal it has struck with BP, while Fairfax will be giving a briefing on Google. Automotive retail group AP ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... lunch. In share market news, Macquarie Bank Ltd releases its annual results, while Corporate Express Australia and Cumnock Coal Ltd holds their AGMs. Newcomer, Texon Petroleum, will list on the ASX today. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index finished up 47.7 ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... the Housing Industry Association will issue its quarterly outlook for the March quarter. Meanwhile on the corporate front, Coal Fe Resources and ITX Group will list on the Australian Stock Exchange. A last-minute fall resulted in a flat finish for the ...