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Output lags as gold soars

BARRY FITZGERALD | Gold output by share price-battered miners has yet to respond to record Australian-dollar gold prices, with output for 2008 tipped to fall to a 19-year low.

Cash-starved Babcock on brink

CLANCY YEATES AND NATALIE CRAIG | Babcock & Brown's future looks increasingly grim, after crisis talks with bankers failed to resolve cash problems.

Obama in the wings before tough show

DAVID HIRST | The President-elect's choice for Treasury chief, Timothy Geithner, will find his department under the global financial microscope.

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CAC	44.21	-0.81	-1.80%
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10:16PM Money matters still taboo for women: ANZ

3:51PM Aussie gold production at 20-year low

2:44PM Britain to cut Value Added Tax by 2.5%

1:43PM Stocks tipped to rise on Wall St rally

12:20PM BHP reduces production in Brazil

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US stocks surge

22 Nov | Australian shares will get a lift after US stocks rally following reports that New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner will be nominated as US Treasury secretary.

Wall Street plummets

Video Stocks plunged on Wall Street falling to a range not seen in more than five years.

World Business

CEO won't break-up Citigroup

22 Nov | Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit tells employees he doesn't plan to break up the company, aiming to reassure workers as the stock resumes a skid.