Dr Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist at AMP, discusses developments in investment markets over the past week, economic activity trackers, major global economic events and Australian economic events. Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global shares rose again over the last week, helped by ongoing confidence that major […]
Major insurer QBE (ASX:QBE) is poised for a solid first half result when it reports in August, judging by its March quarter trading update on Friday. QBE revealed higher gross premiums, a reasonable outcome on costs associated with major catastrophes (especially storms), and a higher return from its investment portfolio. CEO Andrew Horton told the
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Australians just don’t seem to like gold as an investment—or rather, they don’t seem to like investing in the metal like investors in India, China, the US, and many other countries do. Considering we are one of the biggest gold producers in the world—top 3, in fact, and sometimes Number 1—this aversion to owning gold
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Dr Mark Cooksey – Managing Director & CEO – ABx Group (ASX:ABX) is a uniquely positioned, high-tech Australian company delivering materials for a cleaner future. The two current areas of focus are: creation of an ionic adsorption clay rare earth project in northern Tasmania, and establishment of a plant to produce hydrogen fluoride and aluminium
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Alex Hanly – CEO – Lithium Universe (ASX:LU7) is establishing itself as a prominent lithium project builder. The company’s flagship Apollo project is located in James Bay in Canada.
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Andrew Rowe – Managing Director – Mayfield Group Holdings (ASX:MYG) owns a portfolio of complementary, innovative companies, each with a unique value-proposition in the provision of electrical and telecommunications products and services.
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Manny Anton: I’m Manny Anton for the Finance News Network, and today we are talking with Empire Energy Group, chief executive officer, Alex Underwood. Empire Energy Group is a Sydney-based Australian oil and gas company, holding a hundred percent owned and operated assets in the Northern Territory’s exciting and developing Beetaloo Basin. Empire is now
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To register for today’s webinar click here. State Gas (ASX:GAS) has been awarded $5.5 million of exploration grant funding through the Queensland Government’s Frontier Gas Exploration Program. The Grant will be used to further delineate gas resources and reserves within the Company’s Rolleston West coal seam gas project, through drilling of two new vertical wells.
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On Friday, Australian shares opened higher, mirroring a positive trend on Wall Street fueled by reinforced expectations of interest rate cuts in the US. The S&P/ASX 200 increased by 0.4%, reaching 7749.2 points, with the All Ords also rising by the same percentage. Among the 11 sectors, eight showed gains, with communications and energy leading,
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De Grey Mining (ASX:DEG) has successfully raised most of the more than $600 million it sought earlier this week to fund its share of the cost of the $1 billion plus Hemi gold mining project in WA’s Pilbara. In a release on Friday, De Grey stated that it had completed both parts of its institutional
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