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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Tanzania’s cotton output for the ongoing season is likely to plunge 40 percent, due to outdated agricultural techniques and other factors, according to a Tanzania’s Daily News report. Tanzania’s cotton cultivation ...
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Chinese soybean yeild is expected to decline by 3.9% for the third consecutive year, reaching 12.3 million tons. It aims to encourage imports of soybeans. The sown area of soybean declines by 3.7% Y-O-Y. Last year, soybean area declined ...
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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 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 ...
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Eyeing to revive cotton production in the country, the Government of the western African country of Gambia has injected a sum of D 2.6 million for providing inputs to the farmers for forthcoming season, the Minister of Agriculture, Solomon ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched gallium nitride (GaN)-based high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm-diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) substrates ...
Chinese corn yield is expected to raise by 2.82%, reaching 214000000 tons, said China National Grain & Oils Information Center. China will import 5,000,000 tons corn in 2013-14, higher than before. Besides, Chinese wheat yields is ...
The song 'country roads take me home, to the place I belong', by John Denver is playing on like forever. You are on a long gray road, stretching for miles together. On either side of it are golden rye fields, where the yield is yet to be ...
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Talk about fireplaces and I'm reminded of that evocative number from the movie 'My Fair Lady' - "All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air, With one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of ...
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One advantage that engineered flooring has over many like bamboo floors or cork flooring is that you can install it in any room, either above or below ground. It is also generally designed to be installed quickly and easily. The Ease of ...
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Local shares rose slightly in mixed trading yesterday as a lower Australian dollar led investors to sell banks and other high-yield plays in order to buy shares of companies that stand to benefit from a sustained fall in the exchange rate. ...
Quantum dots are tiny nanocrystals with extraordinary optical and electrical properties with possible uses in dye production, bioimaging, and solar energy production. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a way ...
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Ongoing planting delays continued to keep potential sellers at bay this week, which allowed the market to trend higher. West Texas is still too dry, while parts of the Mid-South and Southeast have experienced wet and unseasonably cool ...
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FOR two years, Dion Hershan has been in fairly select company -- gloomy on the outlook for commodities and local resources stocks and upbeat about the US. Now, as real concerns emerge about a bubble in major-bank share prices, the Goldman ...
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