RBA to Maintain Hands-Off Policy with BNPL Sector
Good news for buy now pay later (BNPL) companies with the Reserve Bank deciding against regulating the sector for now. But a change could be coming down the track.
Read MoreGood news for buy now pay later (BNPL) companies with the Reserve Bank deciding against regulating the sector for now. But a change could be coming down the track.
Read MoreSpirit Technology Solutions has undergone an acquisition and organic sales-fuelled metamorphosis, selling an array of I.T. and telco add-on services to small to mid-sized businesses and not-for-profit clients.
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Read MoreIn his weekly Insights column, Dr Shane Oliver from AMP Capital gives an in-depth analysis on inflation, what is driving the recent jump, and what the risks are for investment markets.
Read MoreBy way of follow-up to our story of last week, we take a deeper dive into all of the permutations at play in Amazon’s proposed $US8.45 billion purchase of MGM.
Read MoreHousing prices in the US are surging at their fastest rate in 15 years and, along with the rapid rise in raw material costs, the pressures are starting to hurt new home construction and demand.
Read MoreHSBC has finally decided to pull the plug on 40 years of trying to crack the huge US retail banking sector and losing tens of billions of US dollars in the process.
Read MoreUS private equity giant KKR and Nine Entertainment’s real estate listings company Domain Holdings have made a surprise $3.1 billion bid for the online property conveyancer PEXA.
Read MorePresenter – Corey Nolan – Managing Director – Platina Resources is a gold focused explorer targeting world-class provinces in Western Australia.
Read MoreA strike by 205 workers employed by BHP at two of its big mines in Chile has pushed the price of copper back over $US10,000 a tonne.
Read MoreThe Dow Jones index rose by 142 points or 0.4%. The S&P 500 index lifted 0.1%. But the Nasdaq index fell by just 2 points or less than 0.1%.
Read MoreA day after Mosaic Brands convinced the market that it wasn’t heading off a cliff, it has fallen foul of the competition and consumer watchdog, the ACCC, for misleading product data.
Read MoreShares in New Zealand medical technology group Fisher & Paykel Healthcare took a pounding yesterday despite the company turning in a stellar result for its 2021 financial year.
Read MoreFor the second time in two years shares in fruit and vegetable grower and distributor Costa Group have fallen out of bed after a weak trading update, ending the session down 24%.
Read MoreFederal government investment incentives drove strong growth in March quarter capital expenditure and construction spending, according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Read MoreAs we approach the midpoint of 2021, the Global Listed Infrastructure team at First Sentier Investors share their predictions for the sector, summarised in five points.
Read MoreAMP shares shrugged off legal action from ASIC involving the most notorious part of the Hayne Royal Commission – the company charging fees to people after they had died.
Read MoreYarra Capital’s Phil Strano takes a look at the respective risk and return profiles of Yarra’s Australian credit portfolios with comparable credit portfolios/indices in the US.
Read MoreThe Australian sharemarket rose from this morning’s lows, with mining and tech stocks among the strongest improvers.
Read MoreDoes your Outsourced CIO fit within your governance structure and able to offer the governance you need? It is a vitally important, yet often overlooked element in the development and maintenance of enduring and resilient investment programmes.
Read MoreThe takeover of paper and personal care products Asaleo Care by its second biggest shareholder has been given the greenlight by the Foreign Investment Review Board and New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office.
Read MoreASX200 up 14 points (0.2%) to 7107. Qantas (-1%); Virgin has started cancelling flights in and out of Melbourne. No word from Qantas as yet……
Read MoreTwo separate events on Wednesday – one in a courtroom in the Netherlands, the other at the Exxon Mobil annual meeting in Texas – have stunned global business, especially the oil industry.
Read MoreAMP will be quick to try and settle this ASIC case which involves the most notorious part of the Hayne Royal Commission two years ago – the company charging dead people fees.
Read MoreInvestors reacted warily on Thursday to the surprise $1.8 billion takeover bid from private health group Ramsay Health Care for a UK private hospital operator.
Read MoreComments from US Federal Reserve officials helped damp down concerns about runaway inflation and kept bond yields in check.
Read MoreCommonwealth Bank hit an all-time intra-session high of $100.20 yesterday, but couldn’t sustain the push and actually lost 5 cents on the day to end at $99.58.
Read MoreFund manager Australian Ethical has upgraded its June 30 profit estimates after boosting funds under management (FUM) to more than $5.6 billion – a record for the group.
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank of New Zealand has left its official cash rate at 0.25%, where it has been for the past 14 months, and there doesn’t look much reason for a change anytime soon.
Read MoreShares in global testing lab operator ALS surged more than 12% yesterday to a new year’s high as the company played catch up for its shareholders with a sharply higher final payout.
Read MoreDespite the recent rotation toward cyclical stocks, Janus Henderson’s Denny Fish explains why secular-growth companies should remain the main driver of tech earnings over the next several years.
Read MoreAlison Savas from Antipodes looks at both sides of the inflation debate, the structural drivers that could lead to higher inflation and how Antipodes is positioning for inflation.
Read MoreAccounting black, not red, has become the order of the day for retailer Mosaic Group, with stores open, revenue ticking over, profits on board and more to come in 2022.
Read MoreThe ASX 200 snapped its recent 4-day winning streak with the benchmark index falling 22.7pts or 0.3% as miners weighed heavily. Losses for the iron ore heavyweights outweighed gains across technology and communication stocks.
Read MoreThomas Rice, portfolio manager for the Perpetual Global Innovation Share Fund provides his regular wrap of technology, innovation, and finance news.
Read MoreAfter a nightmare 2020 that saw it pushed to the very brink of survival thanks to the bushfires and Covid lockdowns, retailer Mosaic Brands seems to have got things back on track.
Read MoreThe ASX 200 is firmer at lunch having overcome a soft start. Local shares followed Wall Street lower early on but has since been supported by gains for technology and banks in particular. Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has topped $100/share for the first time ever.
Read MoreASX200 up 3 points to 7118. ASX (+0.3%); Deputy CEO Peter Him has resigned and will join Global Investment firm Motive Partners.
Read MoreCopper prices continue to slide despite the threat of strike action at two of the world’s biggest copper mines – both owned by BHP – in Chile.
Read MoreThe Dow Jones index fell by 81.5 points or 0.2%. The S&P 500 index also slid 0.2% and the Nasdaq index lost 4 points or less than 0.1%.
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