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Meet the Middlemen: Episode 3

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New renewable energy target will mean $6 billion cut to investment: analysts

Six billion dollars in investment in wind and solar power will be lost as a result of a compromise deal on the renewable energy target, energy market analysts say. Bloomberg New Energy Finance says investment in Australian projects will fall from an expected ... >> view original

Regulators sets deadline in bid to contain BBY fallout

Regulators and rival stockbrokers are working to stem the potential market fallout from the collapse of mid-tier broker BBY, with the exposed options positions of BBY's clients threatening to jolt the broader equity market. Uncertainty around the prospect of ... >> view original

BHP upbeat on its US shale prospects

BHP Billiton's petroleum chief Tim Cutt remains upbeat on the outlook for the group's $US30 billion ($37bn) push into the onshore US shale industry despite returns being punished by slumping oil and gas prices. Speaking to The Australian on the sidelines of ... >> view original

Bendigo Bank, Bank of Queensland outperform big four

On a price-earnings ratio, Bank of Queensland (14.4) and Bendigo Bank (13.6) are among the two cheapest bank stocks. Glenn Hunt. by Stephen Cauchi. Amid all the talk of a banking stocks bubble, the big four have collectively managed only a marginal rise ... >> view original

NSW ex-treasurer Michael Egan criticises Government, Labor Party for ...

Former Labor treasurer Michael Egan has accused both sides of politics of being loose with the truth about the New South Wales Government's plans to lease the electricity network. Mr Egan, who has been a supporter of power privatisation since the 1990s, ... >> view original

Argus slams iron ore inquiry

Former BHP Billiton chairman Don Argus has warned Australia would become a “laughing stock of the world” if the government intervened in the iron ore market. As the Abbott government considers an inquiry into claims by Fortescue Metals Group chairman ... >> view original

Australian dollar eases on Reserve Bank rate cut message

The Australian dollar eased slightly on Monday after signs the central bank was still open to more interest rate cuts was offset by better-than-expected Chinese property data, a lift in non-mining positions vacant in April and a bout of late-buying. In late local ... >> view original

Listing of BHP spin-off South32 sounds good times ahead

BHP Billiton spin-off South32 — Australia's biggest new listing in almost 16 years — may have made a modest debut on the ASX yesterday, but if history is any guide the soft start should be a precursor to better times ahead. South32, which has inherited a ... >> view original

Woolworths accused of acting deceptively in Masters store land deal

Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien could be called before a court in Melbourne to give testimony over the supermarket group's land grab to roll out its Masters stores. The retail giant signed up land in Bendigo in Victoria but then quickly dumped it, ... >> view original