2014年11月18日 星期二

2014-11-19 Australia Business


The Age
   
Medibank value could hit $6.3bn, as float demand pushes up price range   
The Australian
AUSTRALIAN institutional investors hoping to secure shares in Medibank Private are betting a price of $2.15 will be set for the health insurer, as demand continues to escalate. “The whole thing is out of control,” said an unnamed fund manager, who has bid ...

UPDATE 1-Australia raises Medibank target price range on strong institutional ...   Reuters
Medibank Private shares could cost $2.30 in IPO   The Age
Medibank shares to sell at $2-2.30 after strong institutional demand   ABC Online
Business Insider Australia   
Motley Fool Australia   
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SBS
   
James Hardie second quarter profit jumps 66 percent; outlook cautious   
Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - James Hardie Industries PLC (JHX.N) (JHX.AX), the world's biggest fiber cement products maker, on Wednesday posted a sharp increase in second-quarter net operating profit, despite a slower-than-expected recovery in the U.S. housing ...

James Hardie H1 profit falls despite Q2 gain (00:54)   Brisbane Times
Stocks to watch   Trading Room
James Hardie shares jump as profit rises   Yahoo!7 News
Finance News Network   
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Sky News Australia
   
Economy could pick up in June 2015: report   
Yahoo!7 News
Good news: the Australian economy looks like it'll be taking a turn for the better next year. The not-so-good news, for borrowers at least, is that the upturn should pave the way for rising interest rates. The latest Westpac/Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which ...

Hysteria on housing risks lessening: Westpac's Bill Evans   Property Observer

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Virgin forecasts clearer skies ahead as capacity war with Qantas, Jetstar eases   
Sydney Morning Herald
Virgin Australia expects to post a pre-tax profit in the second-quarter of this financial year as the capacity war with Qantas and Jetstar eases in the domestic market. Australia's second-largest airline also believes its budget offshoot, Tigerair Australia, will break ...

Virgin Australia tips profit ahead as capacity war wanes   The Australian
Virgin eyes underlying profit in Q2   Herald Sun
Virgin flags second quarter underlying profit in 2014/15   Australian Aviation
SBS   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Markets Live: No end to mining plunge   
Sydney Morning Herald
10:24am: Local investors remain firmly downbeat despite another reasonable lead from Wall St, after a sharp slump in the iron ore price put miners under further pressure and with little impetus to bid up the banks. Still, the losses are not dramatic. In early ...

Markets Live: Miners under pressure   The Age

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Markets Live: Small miner wipeout   
Sydney Morning Herald
10:41am: No surprise that iron ore miners are leading the day's loser list, after the bulk commodity's prices was smashed overnight, plunging more than 4 per cent to a new five-year low of $US71.80 a tonne. Here's how bad the carnage among iron ore miners ...


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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Westpac overtakes CBA on customer satifaction   
Sydney Morning Herald
Westpac has overtaken the Commonwealth Bank as the major lender with the highest customer satisfaction rating after a year in which CBA's reputation has been tarnished by a financial planning scandal. Roy Morgan rankings on Wednesday said Westpac ...

Westpac overtakes CBA on customer satisfaction   The Age
Westpac scores highest satisfaction of the big four banks for personal and ...   NewsMaker (press release)

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ABC Online
   
Scientists say their research showing high levels of methane gas in coal seam ...   
ABC Online
Researchers from Southern Cross University say they've found three times the amount of methane compared to background levels in some coal seam gas fields. The research was first released at a town hall meeting in Lismore, New South Wales, two years ...

CSG study finds elevated methane levels near gas fields   Sydney Morning Herald
CSG assessments to be handled under one roof   Ferret
NSW Coal Seam Gas industry - major new developments proposed   Lexology (registration)
The Narrabri Courier   
Namoi Valley Independent   
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Australian Mining
   
Orica cuts 700 jobs as mining slump bites   
The Age
Chemicals and explosives maker Orica expects to cut 700 jobs before the end of the year as a downturn in commodity prices forces its miner customers to cut costs. Chief executive Ian Smith said the company has so far given the bad news to more than half of ...

Orica sells its chemicals business to Blackstone funds   ABC Online
Orica sees growth in NPAT   Australian Mining
Orica Has Sold Its Chemical Business For $750 Million As It Plans More Job Cuts   Business Insider Australia
Reuters   
Sky News Australia   
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What scrapping the FoFA changes means for you   
Sydney Morning Herald
If cross-bench and Opposition Senators block the Coalition's rollback of Labor's financial advice laws, as they plan to, we will revert to laws put in place by the Gillard government. Here's what that would mean for consumers: Consumers would have to "opt in".

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