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Preliminary November trade data from China Customs are painting a supportive picture for Australian iron ore and coal exports.

Weekly musings from your editor. What to expect from 2010 in the absence of a market consensus?

After a hurly burly year of ups and downs, the market dynamics for agricultural commodities are set to improve.

China’s latest CPI, PPI and industrial production numbers were all better than had been expected.

Steel industry consultant MEPS believes strong spot prices are setting the stage for solid iron ore contract price increases in 2010.

Australia posted stronger than expected labour force data for November.

Junior miner/explorer Golden Cross shows how it’s done by extracting and commercially exploiting every single elemental product and by-product from the common or garden copper-gold resource.

Management at Alesco has lowered guidance for FY10 earnings but stockbrokers remain broadly positive on the stock.

Westpac economists report Australian consumers’ expectations for unemployment rose slightly in December.

A little more than a month after floating on the ASX, brokers are starting to pick up Myer and with high expectations.