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Food Costs A Big Problem

A grim warning from the International Monetary Fund about the dangers of food price inflation has been amplified by figures showing two of the major economies in Asia, Japan and India, are battling the highest cost pressures for a decade or more.

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DIARY: US Results To Dominate

After Friday’s timely reminder to investors that the poor profit and poor outlook from the mighty General Electric means there’s a lot of bad things to still be endured in the current market uncertainty, it will be a gun-shy mob that looks ahead this week to the first quarter reporting season and some important stats.

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Commodity Markets Confused?

Commodity markets were seemingly at cross purposes on Friday: some traders saw good news in the General Electric earnings slump and lowered outlook, others saw the downside as a major global industrial stock signalled its concerns about the US, European and world economic outlook.

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John Button & America’s Australia

We’d never heard of former Labor politician John Button until we learned he’d died earlier this week. But as we read a few obituaries, we learned that Button played a key role in reducing tariffs on the Australian auto manufacturing sector (which were around 60% in the 1970s, we also read.)

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