THE Rudd Government will impose limits on Chinese takeovers as it grapples with a $30 billion wave of investment proposals.

TAKEOVER target Just Group has rejected a request from its predator, Solomon Lew's Premier Investment to disclose more on its fiscal 2009 earnings outlook.

OZ Minerals, formed last month in the merger of Oxiana and Zinifex, could be sitting on another big copper find near its $1.1billion Prominent Hill project in South Australia, judging from recent drilling.

WHEN the benchmark index fell past 5000 points yesterday, it crystallised what many fear: the worst may be yet to come.

QUEENSLAND'S richest man, Clive Palmer, is planning a $5 billion float of his company Resource Development International in Australia and Hong Kong later this year.

RED hot world oil prices blazed over a record $US146 a barrel today in the face of falling US oil reserves, geopolitical tensions and a weak dollar, traders said.