Organic food industry player Boulder Brands is unveiling a novel square package for Smart Balance buttery spreads and Earth Balance natural and organic buttery spreads. The company believes that this will transform the way products are ...
The Court of Taranto has finally released the steel stocks of Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been seized by court order since November 26 last year. Taranto-based Ilva is now free to sell the steel products in question which consist of ...
Tags: Ilva, Impounded Steel Stocks
OPEC ministers should consider the needs of the global oil market in a year's time, rather than just the current demand/supply balance, when they meet to review the cartel's production ceiling in two weeks, the head of the International ...
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The sharemarket rose for a third-consecutive session after the dollar weakened further overnight. Non-resources companies with US dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the resources sector. The ...
Tags: Stocks, Aussie Fall
Asian grain prices are expected to be higher in the next few days as investors take leads from late plantings in the US, one of the world's largest exporters, trade participants said. The most active wheat futures for July delivery on ...
Tags: US Plantings, Asian Grain Price
The sharemarket rose for a third consecutive session yesterday after the Australian dollar weakened further in offshore trade. Non-resources companies with US-dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the ...
Tags: Bourse, Greenback Exposure
The sharemarket was higher despite weakness among major resources stocks as investors waited for the federal budget. Most major sectors were up at noon, with information technology shares leading the way and despite a dip in the energy ...
Tags: Australian Market, Mining Stocks
High-profile stockbroker Charlie Aitken has weighed into the debate around the Australian dollar, saying that a wave of hedge funds could be set to short the currency and the biggest winners would be industrial stocks, not resources. As ...
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Australia shoppers chasing bargains have a new tool - each other. Shopping aggregation site Lasoo has updated its app so that consumers can crowdsource the best price, location and availability by sharing barcode data scanned by their ...
Tags: Shoppers, Computer Products
The sharemarket closed flat ahead of tomorrow's federal budget and after the Aussie fell below parity with the greenback. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 4.2 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 5210.3 points. The ...
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The sharemarket ended flat yesterday as companies with offshore earnings and high-yield stocks returned to favour, offsetting weak demand for resources. Investors' recent enthusiasm for resources was dampened by further declines in ...
The stockmarket was awash with fresh optimism that the dollar may finally be on a sustained decline as it plays catch-up to the fall in interest rates and commodity prices, reversing a major earnings headwind several sectors have faced for ...
The dollar remained below parity with the greenback as speculation about a winding back of US quantitative easing buoyed the American currency. The Australian dollar fell below 100 US cents shortly after 9am AEST today, repeating its ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, US Currency
Prices of poultry products in China could rise sharply as early as next month as the waning H7N9 virus helps consumers regain confidence in poultry meat and eggs, experts said. Since late March, authorities have closed many poultry ...
The sudden fall in gold prices recently has proved to be a boon to the jewellers as consumers pan India went on buying spree and as a result jewellery sales saw a huge increase of 40 to 50%, as we normally see during Akshay Tritiya and Dhan ...
Tags: Apparel, Jewellery Industry, Accessories