Street Talk

Continental seeks "coal loan"
04 March 2010 | Edited by Jamie Freed and Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
With production due to start from its Vlakvarkfontein coal mine, Continental Coal is turning its attention to its other projects in South Africa.
Nufarm hit by margin contraction
03 March 2010 | Carrie LaFrenz | The Australian Financial Review
Nufarm boss Doug Rathbone has provided an update on the company's earnings outlook (as promised) to shareholders at an extraordinary meeting in Melbourne where this morning but it was not a pretty picture.
Henderson looks around for deals
26 February 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Anglo-Australian fund manager Henderson Group, which was de-merged from AMP in 2003, is thinking of boosting its local business via an acquisition amid the fracas surrounding its former parent.
ConnectEast overtaken by events
16 November 2009 | Sarah Thompson | The Australian Financial Review
Transurban shareholders are set to receive a letter from the mothership today, and investors will be hoping boss Chris Lynch is on the way to negotiating a better offer than the $6.8 billion bid made by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Continental seeks "coal loan"