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BHP’s Records

Eight successive half year record profits in a row, capped by the latest which pushed the annual result of the world's biggest miner up 35% to $US13.7 billion (or $A16.27 billion at yesterday's exchange rate of 80.24 USc for the Australian dollar).

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Good News From Qantas

Without all the subprime fear and the crunching happening in financial markets, the Qantas result should have produced a flood of 'we told you sos' directed at the board and management of the airline, especially from a couple of fund managers who went out on a limb in their early opposition to the $11.1 billion buyout from the Macquarie Bank-led private equity mob.

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Biotech; Mad Or Bad?

Perhaps the first time the world realised that the stuff of science fiction had a human dimension with genuine possibilities was in January 1998 when a Chicago physicist, Dr Richard Seed announced that he would clone a human being.

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A Nasty Day

The dollar plunged, and plunged, and its New Zealand counterpart went the same way. For a couple of hours our market and some in Asia went the same way, and yet when it was all over, the loss on the day was only just over 1%.

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