China Investing significant capital and commitments in Australia this week
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Kingho, one of China’s largest private mining companies, has announced an all-cash tilt at the cash-strapped mining junior Carabella Resources, which has coal assets throughout Queensland. Though the deal is only valued at $66 million, a pittance in the world of mega-mining transactions, the Chinese suitor is expected to...
China’s top brands – five lessons
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In Beijing yesterday the leaders of Prime Minister David Cameron’s trade mission to China were given a sneak preview of one of the marketing world’s most fascinating and revealing studies. Millward Brown, the global research firm, has today published its definitive annual BrandZ list of China’s most valuable brands...
China’s financial markets are inefficient
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To me, much of the argument about whether or not markets are efficient misses the point. There are conditions, it seems, under which markets seem to do a great job of managing risk, keeping the cost of capital reasonable, and allocating capital to its most productive use, and there...
AUD5Mil Australian on line wagering and social gaming.
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Having successfully placed AUD 1Mil in 2013 our Australian client has re mandated BoxRED/Merkin. Our client is an Australian company bringing an integration of new and innovative online wagering and social gaming products to the Australian market. BoxRED are to identify and facilitate the introduction of global investors and/or strategic investors...
China keen on bilateral trade agreement
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China is willing to complete a free trade agreement with Australia as soon as possible, China’s Ministry of Commerce has said at a ministry press conference this week. “Both sides have relatively large differences in investment, agriculture and services, but have been trying to find ways to move the...
Forget Australia’s mining boom; try its dining boom instead.
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The country is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of dairy products. Since Warrnambool Cheese and Butter was first approached by a bidder in September it has attracted two other suitors. WCB’s shares have doubled, and trading activity has risen 15-fold. The group now trades on 60 times trailing earnings, making it the...
U.S. Exports Surge as China Supports Agricultural Prices
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As Chinese officials expanded support for agriculture, they began to rely on raising price supports to maintain net returns to farmers. China became the largest market for U.S. agricultural exports as its rising prices eroded the relative competitiveness of Chinese commodities. Chinese officials have signaled intentions to keep increasing...
Statistics on FDI into Australian agribusiness
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Why not let agriculture benefit from foreign investment Why do we clamour to keep foreign-owned car makers here, paying them billions of dollars to stay, while being wary of foreign investment in farms? Around 0.1% of foreign investment last year was in agriculture, with mining receiving 30%, manufacturing close...
“Chinese Farmers should participate equally and enjoy the fruits of modernisation,”
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“Farmers should participate equally and enjoy the fruits of modernisation,” communiqué from the third plenum of the 18th Central Committee That was all the Chinese Government has to say about the most important challenge facing the economy. John Clemmow at Barclays Research states that he for one is not...
Deloitte give Australian agribusiness and wealth management the thumbs up – and ICT is fighting !
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Deloitte Australia have released their Positioning for Prosperity report this week and Deloitte identifies five “super-growth industry sectors” that they forecast will collectively contribute an additional $250 billion to the Australian economy over the next 20 years. These five industries would form the backbone of a powerful new diversified...