Fortescue Metals Group
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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Falling Indian exports will support global prices and maintain demand from China.
Crikey
/ Tom Cowie
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
You don’t become one of Australia’s richest men without a making a few friends in some pretty high places. And West Australian resources entrepreneur Andrew Forrest certainly has some good ones. So, just who are some of Twiggy’s friends? And what have they done for him lately?
Crikey
/ Tom Cowie
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Yindjibarndi members in favour of the current deal with FMG say it offers them security and the chance to make their own future better. Woodley says the agreement is inadequate and will be doled out to a select group of people willing to sign the contract. Who’s right?
Crikey
/ Tom Cowie
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
A Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) PR spinner has been editing the Wikipedia page of the mining giant, while a video entitled “FMG’s Great Native Title Swindle” uploaded by Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation expressing their concern over a native title meeting was deleted last night by host Vimeo.
Crikey
/ Tom Cowie
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
A video has been uploaded by the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation expressing their concern over a March meeting with Fortesque Metals Group over a native title dispute in the Pilbara.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Prices for iron ore (our biggest export) are about to have another surprise boost.
The Sydney Morning Herald
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Friday, 23 July 2010
With news that the smaller mining companies may begin advertising against the government’s proposed mining tax this weekend, the government appears caught between the Greens and the mining industry, writes Elizabeth Knight.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Monday, 31 May 2010
Andrew Forrest’s hypocrisy in criticising the federal government’s resource tax — and claiming it could lead to a flood of Chinese buyers — has been underlined by news of his own China dealings.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Fortescue Metal Group has failed in its attempt to exploit the stand off between the Chinese mills and BHP and Rio and get it hands on an estimated $A5.7 billion-$6.9 billion in cheap financing from China.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Twiggy Forrest is going to be running an over-geared speculative miner producing just one commodity, servicing just one market and getting less than market prices.
The Australian
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009
China-Australia relations have soured as a result of Australia’s decision to grant a visa to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer and growing frustration over the price of iron ore imports, say Greg Sheridan and Michael Sainsbury.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Monday, 17 August 2009
Fortescue Metals Group has settled its 2010 iron ore contracts with Chinese steel mills, giving the Chinese the victory they need to attempt to pressure BHP and Rio to settle at larger discounts to the Japanese.
Crikey
/ Marcus Padley
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Financials are up 0.5% — not a deafening roar given the 8% jump in financials overnight.
Crikey
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Thursday, 2 April 2009
Unpredictable FIRB reviews, unreliable banks and dilutive rights issues make bonds an increasingly attractive fund raising avenue for companies. And Australia’s retail investors are belatedly waking up to the asset class.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Crikey
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Thursday, 15 November 2007
Fortescue Metals AGM … Sol deserves his pay … Wentworth and the Overington affair … Borders, Hillsong and the Mercy Ministries … China cooling, tough times ahead …
Crikey
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Friday, 9 November 2007
Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has today achieved something few would have thought possible when the value of his Fortescue stake soared passed James Packer’s stake in PBL to become the most valuable individual holding in any Australian company, writes Stephen Mayne.
Labor stuck between the miners and a Green place
Bitter Beijing
