Microcap listing Hastings Rare Metals boasts one of only four JORC-compliant rare earth metals resources in Australia and has Lynas is its sights. What really is the rare earth story?
An audit of local government debt has set off alarm bells over China’s actual debt to GDP ratio but economists agree there is no Greek-style debt crisis in the offing.
Global economic growth is now being driven almost single-handed by so-called emerging markets. Can the boom continue, or we must we once again anticipate an emerging market inflation-driven bust?
Commonwealth Bank researchers believe long-running USD structural depreciation combined with building AUD structural appreciation makes for a decade ahead of a higher AUD-USD exchange rate.
In one fell swoop, Japan has changed everything, with significant ramifications for Australia’s existing and proposed LNG production. Is it a game-changer?
Inequitable and destructive or simply part of the evolutionary process? The what, why and wherefore of HFT.
Managed property remains a popular investment in Australia, but listed REITs are not the only form of managed property investment.
The current “price of oil” is not US$85 per barrel, it’s over US$100 per barrel. That’s because the West Texas Intermediate price is no longer a valid indicator.
Some scientists believe there exist longer scale wet/dry cycles which overlay the shorter El Nino/La Nina cycles and that we may have just come out of a decades of dry and into decades of wet. This could mean more “Brisbanes” over the next twenty plus years.
Local and international economists discuss their expectations for 2011.
