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Western Australia Offers Chevron 2 Gas Retention Lease Renewals : Western Australia's state government said Thursday that it has offered to renew two retention leases for Chevron Corp.'s (CVX) Wheatstone gas project. The state's mines minister, Norman Moore, said granting the leases WA-16-R and WA-17-R offshore northwestern Australia "would help achieve the earliest possible commercial development of ...
25 Dec 2009 02:23

08 Dec 2009 01:41

Australia in $82 bln gas deal with Japan : Australia has welcomed a 90 billion dollar (82 billion US) deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a Japanese power company in what is believed to be the country's biggest export sales contract. ...

05 Dec 2009 02:23

Australian, N.Z. Dollars Set for Weekly Gain Before Jobs Report : The Australian and New Zealand dollars headed for a weekly gain before a U.S. report forecast to show the world’s largest economy lost jobs at the slowest pace in more than a year. ...

05 Dec 2009 02:21

Australia to Have Nuclear Power in 20 Years, State Leader Says : Australia, the world’s second-largest uranium producer, will have its own nuclear power plants within 20 years, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said. “It would be almost certainly on the larger grid on the eastern coast,” he said in an interview in Perth yesterday. “I don’t see there should be an ideological debate over nuclear ...

20 Nov 2009 02:15

AGL lodges interest in Australia power asset sale : AGL Energy Ltd <AGK.AX>, Australia's largest energy retailer, has lodged an expression of interest to buy some assets in the New South Wales state power sale, it said on Wednesday. "The board has approved for AGL to bid for the assets," said AGL spokesman Nathan Vass. ...

Noble Offers $200 Million for Gloucester Coal Shares (Update3) : Noble Group Ltd., a Hong Kong-based commodity supplier, offered A$310 million ($200 million) in cash for the shares it doesn’t own in Australia’s Gloucester Coal Ltd. to thwart a rival ...
27 Feb 2009 21:40

Investment properties making a comeback : A RISE in the number of investment properties whose rental returns exceed the cost of the mortgage will trigger a recovery in the housing market. Cuts to official interest rates, and years of foundering prices and rising rents means investors can, in some parts of Sydney and Melbourne at least, now buy properties that will return about as much in rent as ...
17 Feb 2009 04:49

17 Feb 2009 00:30

Crude Oil Trades Below $37 on Slowing Global Demand for Fuel : Crude oil traded below $37 a barrel in New York on speculation a recession in the world’s largest economies will stifle demand for fuel. Japan’s economy, the world’s largest oil consumer after the U.S. and China, contracted the most since 1974 in the fourth quarter, a government report showed today. The U.K. will shrink ...

Homes most affordable in five years : THE Australian dream of owning a home is more affordable now than it has been for five years following lower interest rates and greater Government subsidies, a report says. The Housing Industry Association and Commonwealth Bank First Home Buyer Affordability index improved by 39.2 per cent to 153.6 points in the December quarter from 110.3 index points for the September quarter. ...
16 Feb 2009 18:10

16 Feb 2009 16:59

Wesfarmers Earnings Rise 46% on Coles, Coal Prices (Update3) : Wesfarmers Ltd., whose businesses range from mining and insurance to supermarkets, said first-half profit rose 46 percent on record prices for coal and its takeover of Coles Group Ltd. ...

Macquarie Group to acquire energy assets : MACQUARIE Group Ltd has taken advantage of falling prices for energy assets to buy one of the largest marketers of natural gas in North America. Macquarie said that it had agreed to buy the downstream natural gas trading business of the Houston-based Constellation Energy, but did not disclose the purchase price. ...
05 Feb 2009 02:15

Qantas half-year net profit slumps 66 per cent on high fuel prices, low sales : Australia's national carrier Qantas said Wednesday its net profit slumped 66 per cent in the last half of 2008 as it paid high fuel costs and the global financial downturn ...
04 Feb 2009 18:20

19 Dec 2008 19:07

Paperlinx to Breach Covenants on Asset Sale Delay (Update2) : Paperlinx Ltd., Australia’s largest paper maker, will breach lending covenants after failing to complete asset sales in Europe. Its stock plunged a record 32 percent. Earnings in the six months to Dec. 31 will drop by more than 15 percent from the year-earlier period, Paperlinx said today in a statement. The Melbourne-based company earned A$35.3 million ...

Rio Tinto axes $15bn alumina plant in Saudi Arabia : RIO Tinto has been forced to jettison a $US10.5 billion ($15 billion) aluminium project in Saudi Arabia, as the global economic crisis continues to bite into metals demand. As it prepares to slice 14,000 jobs globally and pull back billions on spending, Rio yesterday said it would not help fund the massive Ma'aden bauxite mine, alumina refinery and aluminium smelter, in ...
19 Dec 2008 01:39

Australia, Japan Money Costs Rise; Banks Hoard Amid Bond Risks : Australian funding costs rose by the most in almost a month and Japanese money rates advanced as lenders hoarded cash on concern the deepening global recession will cripple companies' ...
22 Nov 2008 05:39

13 Nov 2008 22:29

Lend Lease Falls After Scrapping King of Prussia Sale (Update2) : Lend Lease Corp. shares slumped 9 percent in Sydney trading after Australia's largest developer scrapped plans to sell its half of the King of Prussia shopping center, the third-largest ...

Closure looms for NT biofuel plant : While Queensland builds its sustainable fuel credentials with a new bio-diesel plant in Mackay, a $48 million biofuel plant in the Territory has gone into voluntary liquidation. The plant, an initiative of Natural Fuels Australia Limited and merchant banker, Babcock and Brown, produced its first litre of fuel in November, 2006. ...
04 Oct 2008 03:15

03 Oct 2008 22:02

Buy Australia Swaps as RBA Will Limit Rate Cuts, Westpac Says : Investors should buy Australian swap contracts to bet the central bank will cut borrowing costs less than many economists expect on Oct. 7, Westpac Banking Corp. said. Investors should pay fixed interest rates through one-month overnight indexed swaps, receiving a variable rate to benefit from a smaller-than-expected cut as booming exports bolster the ...

Fortescue investors agree to share issue : Shareholders in Fortescue Metals have voted in favour of altering the iron ore miner's constitution to allow for the issue of preference shares. As part of a capital raising program, the funds will be put towards the company's plans to expand its port, rail and mining operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region. ...
01 Oct 2008 05:40

10 Dec 2007 19:58

NSW State to Sell Energy Retail Units, Lease Plants (Update1) : Australia's New South Wales state, the nation's most populous, plans to sell energy retailing businesses and lease power plants in a move that may raise as much as A$17 billion ($15 ...

04 Dec 2007 20:57

Australian Drought May Push Winemaker Foster's Lower (Update1) : Australian winemakers, riding 10 straight years of rising export sales, may lose their world price advantage as the nation's currency trades near a 23-year high and a record drought pushes ...

New Zealand Consumer Prices Probably Rose 0.8% in Third Quarter : New Zealand's inflation rate probably slowed in the third quarter, matching the central bank's forecast, as a surging currency made imports cheaper. The consumer prices index rose 0.8 percent from the second quarter when it gained 1 percent, according to the median estimate of 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. From a year earlier, ...
15 Oct 2007 17:21

Pallinghurst Raises Consolidated Bid to $926 Million (Update3) : Pallinghurst Resources Australia Ltd., seeking to win control of Australia's largest manganese producer, matched a A$1.03 billion ($926 million) offer for Consolidated Minerals Ltd. from ...
15 Oct 2007 15:10

08 Oct 2007 16:50

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Rises, Led by Newcrest Mining, Woodside : Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index climbed, rounding its seventh straight weekly gain, led by Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Woodside Petroleum Ltd. after gold and oil prices rose. ...

Warehouse Misses Target, Halts Hypermarket Rollout (Update1) : Warehouse Group Ltd., New Zealand's biggest retailer, halted plans to open more Wal-Mart-style hypermarkets after missing a sales target. Sales at its Warehouse Extra outlet in the regional city of Whangarei, combining groceries with a department store, were below forecast, Chief Executive Officer Ian Morrice said in Auckland ...
18 Sep 2007 00:30

Macquarie Bank Forecasts Record First-Half Earnings (Update9) : Macquarie Bank Ltd., Australia's biggest securities firm, forecast record first-half earnings on growth in investment banking fees and funds it manages. Net income will rise about 40 percent in the six months ending Sept. 30 from A$730 million ($610 million) a year earlier, Sydney-based Macquarie said in a statement today. ...
17 Sep 2007 15:07

N.Z. Opposition Says It Will Lower Interest Rates If Elected : New Zealand's opposition National Party pledged to reduce interest rates by curbing government spending and increasing productivity if it wins next year's election, finance spokesman Bill ...
06 Aug 2007 15:00

Shell, Partners Win Exploration Permits in Australia (Update1) : Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world's second-biggest oil company by market value, won two exploration permits off the northwestern coast of Australia as it intensifies a search for natural ...
06 Mar 2007 18:07

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