Diary: Central by Name, Central by Nature
The coming week is being brought to you by the central bank club, with a mass of meetings from some of its leading members and a number of rate rises expected.
Read MoreThe coming week is being brought to you by the central bank club, with a mass of meetings from some of its leading members and a number of rate rises expected.
Read MoreWall Street investors and most American business media made the same mistake in assessing the US PPI data on Friday – believing a lowball forecast over the actual figure.
Read MoreThe pressures on Elon Musk grew this week as not even an all-time record monthly sales performance in China for November could stop Tesla falling further behind local giant BYD.
Read MoreThe International Energy Agency reckons coal has only two and a bit more years before it is overtaken by renewables as the world’s major source of electricity.
Read MoreIron ore prices have staged their now familiar late rebound ahead of mid-January’s Lunar New Year in China, up more than 30% since lows in late October of around $US76 a tonne.
Read MoreThe Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy has abandoned the takeover battle for Warrego, leaving Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy seemingly in the box seat.
Read MoreChalice Mining has further confirmed the world-class potential of its Julimar metals prospect northeast of Perth with the announcement of a third major strike in the area.
Read MoreThursday’s ASX trading session turned out to be a busy one for trans-Tasman stocks, with Downer EDI, Fonterra and Air New Zealand each making headlines.
Read MoreChina’s move to further relax its Covid controls was made easier to understand by the the worst performance for two and a half years in both imports and exports.
Read MoreBrazilian mining giant Vale has confirmed that it will separate its copper, nickel and other metals business and sell a 10% stake in it to an outside shareholder.
Read MoreAs oil prices fell to new 11-month lows, Santos revealed a new capital management framework, kicking it off with another $350 million share buyback.
Read MoreSkyCity’s Adelaide casino is the latest to face court action over alleged non-compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
Read MoreStrike Energy has dealt itself back into the battle for Warrego Energy, using some fancy stockmarket dancing to grab a blocking 19.9% stake in the WA-based gas junior.
Read MoreSolid consumer spending and several smaller contributors helped the economy grow 0.6% in the September quarter despite all of the RBA’s efforts to rein it in.
Read MoreAndrew “Twiggy” Forrest has made his biggest renewables play with a multi-billion-dollar deal that will see his Squadron Energy subsidiary buying CWP Renewables.
Read MoreRecord sales of NEVs in China last month, bringing to roughly 70% the jump over the past year, has again helped explain the continuing strength in lithium prices.
Read MoreThe RBA has raised interest rates for an eighth straight month, lifting its key cash rate by 0.25% to 3.1% as it continues to try and get inflation under control.
Read MoreRural and regional Australia continues to show its resilience as the echoes from the third La Niña in a row spread along parts of the East Coast and South Australia.
Read MoreYes, we got another rate rise from the Reserve Bank yesterday but there was arguably an even bigger news item – the country’s first current account deficit in just over four years.
Read MoreCommodity prices took a knock Monday on stronger than forecast economic news from the US – especially the level of activity across the country’s most dominant sector
Read MoreInvestors paid little heed to weekend media reports hinting that a familiar name was trying to nail down a big stake in Chalice Mining and its lucrative Julimar prospect.
Read MoreGina Rinehart’s private business has made two significant moves – one in rare earths in the Northern Territory and one involving natural gas in the Perth Basin, near the WA capital.
Read MoreMonday saw IGO with some news on good progress at its WA lithium hydroxide refinery, as well as an update on the weekend fire at its valuable Nova nickel mine.
Read MoreA confident outlook for the rest of 2022-23 from Metcash, if the tick-up in interim dividend and solid sales growth seen in the first half of the year are any indication.
Read MoreWas Friday’s stronger than expected US November jobs report a gentle nudge to markets and investors not to get ahead of themselves over these final few weeks of 2022?
Read MoreEvents in the oil industry will again dominate commodity markets for much of the week with important price and production decisions due from the EU and OPEC+ groups.
Read MoreLocal events will dominate Australian markets this week, with investors watching the RBA decision tomorrow and Wednesday’s third quarter GDP and National Accounts.
Read MorePerth-based resource company IGO has suffered a major hit from a fire that will put its Nova nickel mine out of operation for several weeks.
Read MoreRio Tinto this week provided a view of how it sees the Chinese economy travelling next year – no real improvement, with its iron ore guidance unchanged from 2022 levels.
Read MoreAmid all the hype and hyperbole in the wake of this week’s speech from Fed chair Jay Powell, there is one more obstacle for the bulls to hurdle before they can charge off into 2023.
Read MoreThe East Lachlan gold province in western NSW has quietly become one of the hottest addresses in Australian mining for large, low grade gold copper and occasionally molybdenum.
Read MoreWhat will the RBA make of Thursday’s data ahead of its meeting next Tuesday, as house prices fell further last month and new private capex again eased in the September quarter?
Read MoreDomino’s Pizza put its shares into a trading halt on Thursday and is looking to raise $165 million to take full control of its German JV operations from a UK related company.
Read MoreMarkets in Asia kicked sharply higher on Thursday after Fed chair Jay Powell appeared to finally hear their call for a pivot to a slower pace of monetary tightening.
Read MoreThe ACCC has raised what it calls “significant preliminary competition concerns” with Cochlear’s proposed $170 million acquisition of Oticon Medical.
Read MoreRio Tinto will spend upwards of $A900m expanding existing plans for cutting carbon emissions from its Pilbara iron ore operations as part of an $A11.5bn global program.
Read MoreInflation seemed to moderate slowly in October while new building approvals slid sharply for the same month, according to data from the ABS yesterday.
Read MoreInvestors surprised yesterday by lapping up what was a mixed trading update from online retailer Temple & Webster, sending the shares more than 18% higher at one stage.
Read MoreInvestors did their best to ignore news yesterday that Star Entertainment is being sued by financial regulator AUSTRAC over claimed breaches of money laundering laws.
Read MoreThe boom in fast food sales has faded as the lockdowns have vanished, with the fall in consumer spending hurting Tuesday’s interim report from Collins Foods.
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