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Profit dips for Tassal but growth plans on track | Salmon farmer

Salmon farmer Tassal Group has reported a dip in first-half net profit but says it remains well positioned to pursue growth. Tassal's net profit was $15.07 million, down eight per cent from $16.46 million in the previous corresponding period. Revenue rose 16 per cent to $206.26 million
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H1 profit dip for salmon farmer Tassal

AAP Salmon farmer Tassal Group Ltd has reported a dip in first half net profit but says it remains well positioned to pursue growth. Tassal's net profit was $15.07 million, down eight per cent from $16.46 million in the previous corresponding period. Revenue rose 16 per cent to
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Global financial crisis | Balance of power

That movement has brought fresh challenges on issues ranging from employment and economic development to human rights, particularly when it comes to China. Hirotaka Takeuchi, from Japan's Hitotsubashi University, said it was ''absolutely'' the global crisis that had fuelled the eastwards
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Crisis shifts power to the East

The global financial crisis has accelerated the shift in the balance of power from West to East, panellists at the 40th World Economic Forum in Davos say. That movement has brought fresh challenges on issues ranging from employment and economic development to human rights, particularly
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Business Bankruptcies Rise More Than Individuals’ (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

More than 15,000 businesses filed Chapter 11 petitions to reorganize or liquidate in bankruptcy court in 2009, according to data compiled from court records by Automated Access to Court Electronic Records . Including smaller businesses in Chapter 7 liquidations, commercial bankruptcy filings
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Queensland"s shonky business capital revealed

Rockhampton has been revealed as a state hot spot for customer complaints against dodgy businesses. The thousands of irate customers last year sparked a crackdown by the Office of Fair Trading and figures yesterday revealed 53 local businesses were issued with warnings. This appears to...
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Finnish Shooting Spree Leaves Six Dead, Police Say (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

The gunman was named as Ibrahim Shkupolli, born in 1966. His body was found in his apartment. Three men and a woman were shot and killed in the Sello shopping center in Espoo, a suburb of the Finnish capital, at 10:08 a.m. local time. All four were employed at the shopping center. A...
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Four Killed in Finnish Shopping-Mall Shooting, Police Say - Bloomberg.com

Three men and a woman died in the shooting, which occurred in Prisma, a hypermarket at the Sello shopping center, starting just after 10 a.m. local time, Espoo police superintendent Jyrki Kallio said in a phone interview. The whereabouts of the gunman, who was identified as having been...
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Norway Sees February Pause in Rate Rises After Increase Today - Bloomberg.com

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Norges Bank expects to keep the benchmark interest rate on hold until March after unexpectedly raising it for the second meeting in a row today. Deputy Governor Jan F. Qvigstad declined to rule out an increase in February, though the bank doesn’t “expect
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Norway Raises Main Rate to 1.75% as Economy Heats Up (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

The Oslo-based bank, which in October became Europe’s first to reverse an easing cycle since the credit crisis peaked, raised the overnight deposit rate to 1.75 percent, it said in a statement on its Web site today. Two of the 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected the move,.
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Plenty of ways to cut carbon without the sting of a tax

December 5, 2009 Business groups that made a huge push to brown-down the scheme were more sober, issuing carefully worded statements about their genuine commitment to action on climate change. But who knows now what action to take? Perhaps the bigger target for the Minchinites was...
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Singapore’s Lee Says China, India to Rival U.S. in This Century

By Peter S. Green “The first half of the 21st century, a large part of it, will still be the American,” Lee, 86, said in an interview with the Charlie Rose television show on the PBS network. “But I believe the second half you’ll have to share top places with China and also with

Food waste bill tops $5b

October 9, 2009 10:10:00 About $1 billion worth of food is wasted per year in Sydney alone. Audio: Australians - wasters on a grand scale (AM) Map: Sydney 2000 Australians are estimated to waste more than $5 billion worth of food and drink every year - and ...