Yesterday I wrote to you about the silly headline in The Age newspaper. It was this: “Queensland rebuilding will boost GDP” Look, we love it when we see this kind of nonsense written. Simply because it gives us an excuse to again read Frederic Bastiat’s, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”. [...]
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If you haven’t found the time to read the transcripts from the Senate economics select committee I suggest you find the time. Simply because comments from two National Australia Bank [ASX: NAB] executives confirm – that’s right, confirm – everything we’ve written about NAB’s secret bailouts in 2008 and 2009. You can download the transcript [...]
It’s amazing how a little bad weather can affect the price of a commodity. While we’ve been looking at commodities over the past few weeks, pretty much every commodity is affected by the same thing: adverse weather. And today, cotton is no different. Except, in one part of the world, what has created a shortage [...]
Before your editor carries on today, we’ll declare an interest in today’s article. Thanks to last week’s so-called computer glitch at National Australia Bank [ASX: NAB], your editor hasn’t been paid. So just bare that in mind in case we get a bit narky this morning – sorry, more narky than usual… We notice NAB [...]
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Italy and Russia the biggest importers of Indian coffee have massively slowed down on thier coffee imports.Total trade growth of Australia with India for 2008 has risen to $15.356 billion.Blistering rise in the value of the rupee gives sleepless nights to Indian exporters, forcing many to shut down India’s exports fell in May for [...]
2.2 million people lodged their tax return themselves last year by e-tax and that number is increasing. Australian tax return tips This year we can expect, on average, a tax return increase of more than $300 based on goverment grants and reductions. "It’s gone up quite considerably, we reckon last year people got about two [...]
Asciano Limited: Equity raising leads to recommendation upgrade.Many analysts have already been recommending asciano based on the equity raising that they were going to perform. Now that it has been fulfilled asciano is already looking like a good buy at current prices Last traded: $ 1.30 Sector: Industrials Market cap: $1,556M ACCUMULATE / MARKET PERFORM [...]
JB Hi-Fi. Consumer electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi has been one of the better performers during the slump in the equity markets and with the company continuing to build market share and snare customers from its rivals, stock pickers continue to see further upside for investors. Australian electrical goods retailer JB Hi Fi Ltd (JBH.AX JB [...]
Talbot’s Treasures: Tim Treadgold tracks a multi-million dollar share buying spree by resources king Ken Talbot. The 2 big iron ore miners Rio Tinto And Bhp billiton Shares in Rio jumped as much as 13 percent to a 7-month high of A$75.75, nearly triple the price of the rights issue at A$28.29 a share, while [...]
