The Saudi oil summit won’t help lower world oil prices, writes Glenn Dyer.
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Kohler: Oil and the pandering paradox
Western consumers want something to be done about global warming and about the high price of fuel. You can’t do both, writes Alan Kohler.
Australia still raking it in thanks to energy exports
With commodities prices expected to keep climbing, Australia is bolted onto the current inflationary surge, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
WA gas worker: Fark, we ran for our lives
In the wake of last week’s WA gas explosion at Varanus Island, Crikey has received two illuminating insider accounts of the energy situation in WA (complete with pictures).
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Alcoa deals crippling blow to Oz resources exports
Alcoa has declared force majeure on output from its huge Western Australian alumina operations, writes Glenn Dyer.
Consumer sentiment at 15-year low
Rising oil and petrol prices, or rather the intense and very public discussion of them has helped push consumer sentiment in June to its lowest in more than 15 years, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of today’s stockmarket activity.
Oil Futures part 4: A series on oil, the future, and you
In the third part of a series on oil, the economy and the future, Tihomir Ancev, lecturer in resource and environmental economics at the University of Sydney, answers Crikey’s questions.
Three cheers for Queensland’s coal royalty slug
Whilst no-one likes tax rises, Wayne Swan and Anna Bligh should be congratulated for together slugging the North West Shelf and Queensland coal miners with a $1.1 billion tax rise for 2008-09, writes Stephen Mayne.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of today’s stockmarket activity.
Butter might be better, but you can’t afford it
Just as the surge in oil prices and the boost to petrol prices has brought forward all sorts of scary forecasts, the record prices for a host of foodstuffs is also bringing out the alarmists and doomsayers, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of today’s stockmarket activity.
Oil Futures part 3: A series on oil, the future, and you
In the third part of a series on oil, the economy and the future, two leading Australian economists answers Crikey’s questions.
Frequently Asked Questions for frequent flyers
Here are a few of the Qs and the As about travelling par avion, writes Ben Sandilands.
Dow Chemical’s romance with low prices is over
Oil up, airlines cut services and then Dow Chemicals announces a 20% rise in the cost of its products. Welcome to another bad day for the worlds’ economies, writes Glenn Dyer.
Capital spending falls, resources boom remains
The resources boom remains in tact, despite a surprise fall in actual new private capital spending in the March quarter, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of today’s stockmarket activity.
