Good morning, The nation’s largest supermarket landlord, Region Group, has warned that the competition regulator’s possible harsh restrictions on Woolworths and Coles entering new markets plus relentless public attacks on the sector by politicians are having a chilling effect on developers building new supermarket properties. Meanwhile, the development management company behind the soured scheme to build Australia’s tallest mixed-use project in Melbourne owes more than $100m and has payments outstanding to top designers, consultants and lawyers. | See the full list of creditors. And the Australian dollar could fall below US60c in the short term before recovering to US68c by the end of the year, driven by an overestimation of Reserve Bank interest rate cuts and continued strength in commodity prices, one of UBS's top currency experts predicts. |