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...AustralianSuper has more than A$100bn invested across the Australian economy ranging from blue-chip companies to ports and property developments and is the biggest single active investor in the Australian...
...“Water is the ‘blue gold’ of the 21st century....
...Mr Palmer said he has established a new shipping company Blue Star Line Pty Ltd which has commissioned CSC Jinling Shipyard to build and coordinate the construction of Titanic II in China....
...Inmarsat , down 1.1 per cent to 427p, and Investec , off1.8 per cent to 363¼p, also looked likely to lose blue-chip status....
...Jetstar was launched after Virgin Blue, an Australian-listed leisure carrier, but it arguably had first-mover advantage in its home with its heavy emphasis on the low-cost sector....
...Virgin Blue has forged an alliance with Delta to put pressure on Qantas’s transPacific yields....
...Mr Godfrey said he expected the Pacific Blue and Virgin Blue units to be profitable in the current fiscal year. Earnings per share fell 54.9 per cent to 9.3 cents, from 20.6 last time....
...Meanwhile, struggling blue-chips such as TabCorp and James Hardie have seen their shares gain amid expectations they could soon join the buy-out list....
...The group’s asbestos liabilities have also been an obstacle to a takeover, but outstanding claims have now been reduced from 131,350 to 107,600....
...Only 15 blue chip stocks finished in negative territory. Volume was heavy, with nearly 4bn shares changing hands....
...Its earnings, in a notoriously cyclical sector, are underpinned by a duopoly with Virgin Blue in the domestic market and it appears poised to capitalise on its investments in Asia....
...iconic assets such as South African Airways, which is in the process of becoming a separate state-owned company, Transnet’s 26 per cent share of Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred waterfront and the luxury Blue...
...More than Asbestos. From a risk perspective - credit, reputational and legal - carbon has moved onto the agenda as the known unknown....
...They were emblems of modernity as exciting as pre-stressed concrete and blue asbestos. The wheels came off in the 1970s and 1980s....
...The day saw moderate trading, with 1.8bn shares trading hands on the TSE first section, where most of Japan’s blue chip companies are listed....
...Virgin Blue will show live television Passengers flying on Virgin Blue, the low-cost Australian airline, will soon be able to watch live television broadcasts....
...Merck, which has been perceived as one of the bluest of blue-chip companies, lost its AAA rating this week for the first time since it was assigned in 1975....
...Investors sent most blue-chip and technology shares lower. Sony fell 0.3 per cent to Y3,750, Canon was 0.4 per cent lower at Y5,200 and Toshiba lost 1.5 per cent to Y406....
...Our preview showed the asbestos that caused its evacuation in 1991 has been replaced by swish wood panelling inside and an outer skin of adjustable glass tiles at a cost of €550m....
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