Australian manufacturing activity has contracted in back-to-back months for the first time since 2015, sparking fresh calls for further economic stimulus. The Australian Industry Group Performance of Manufacturing Index increased slightly by 0.2 points to […]
Gold prices began the year with a healthy start, boosted by doubts surrounding the strength of Wall Street’s rally, while platinum added 3.0 per cent on industrial demand. Spot gold was up 0.6 per cent at $US1,525.57 […]
Asian shares extended their New Year’s rally on Friday after Wall Street struck another record high on fresh Chinese stimulus while oil spiked after US air strikes in Iraq heightened geopolitical tensions. MSCI’s broadest index […]
The NSW bushfires have damaged the property of Australia’s largest grower of fruit and vegetables, Costa Group, at a farm on the south coast. Vitalharvest Freehold Trust, which leases the farm at Tumbarumba to Costa […]
IAG says it expects to pay out roughly $400 million in natural peril claims for the six months to December 31, more than half of its $641 million natural peril allowance for the fiscal year. The […]
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