Market Turmoil To Continue
The share market turmoil very likely has further to go.
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Credit Worries, Commodities Price Troubles
Commodities prices fell last week as the credit markets turmoil hit energy and base metals, forcing hedge funds and other speculators to liquidate their positions.
Read MoreMining Boom Matures
The National Australia Bank has warned that there are distinct signs the Australian resources boom is turning down.
Read MoreProfits: CCA, PMP Fail To Impress
Not happy Terry, that's what the market seemed to be saying to Coca Cola Amatil and its ebullient CEO, Terry Davis. Investors took set against Coca-Cola Amatil yesterday despite a 23% rise in interim earnings.
Read MoreWES-Coles, Brambles
All but married would have to be the bottom line after the market reaction to the news that Wesfarmers would pay fully franked dividends of more than $2 a share ($1.50 in 2006) for at least two years, and would be giving Coles Group shareholders flexibility to mix and match the proposed offer.
Read MoreThumbs Down For TLS
No matter how hard it is spun, a bad ball is a bad ball in cricket and it is usually punished.
Read MoreBanks’ Happy Marriage?
Will the Bank of Queensland try to muscle into the agreed merger between Bendigo Bank and Adelaide Bank which will create a super regional financial institution?
Read MoreWho’s Moving On Brambles?
The Toll Holdings spin-off, Asciano Ltd, has been sprung with a small holding in rival transport services group, Brambles.
Read MoreDJS Sales Surge
Another reason perhaps for the RBA wiping its brow and saying 'whew we got the rise in just in time', can be found in the confirmed fourth quarter sales figures from leading department store retailer, David Jones.
Read MoreFletcher Profit Up, Shares Down
Investors took a set against Fletcher Building Ltd yesterday in the wake of the New Zealand building products and services giant's 2007 results release and comments on the outlook.
Read MoreResmed Disappoints
ResMed Inc is an Australian/US company which is the world's second-biggest maker of products to treat sleep disorders.
Read MoreA Record Year For Hills
It was a notable year for the Adelaide-based mixed industrial stock, Hills Industries.
Read MoreAustralian Rates Up
Yet another interest rise has been bestowed upon us by the RBA.
Read MorePRY: What About Symbion?
Forget the reasonable profit result – all media and analysts wanted to know from Primary Healthcare and its major shareholder and CEO, Dr Ed Bateman – was ‘what about Symbion?' And all the company had to say was summed up in a slide in its presentation.
Read MoreBradken: Profit OK, But, Will Do Better?
It wasn't the strongest of reactions to a solid profit that we saw yesterday for the annual results for mining services and engineering group, Bradken.
Read MoreBehind The Air Fares War
There is a war going on at the moment, and it's one you may or may not be aware of. We don't mean the war on Iraq. It isn't the Labor war against John Howard, or John Howard's attacks on Kevin Rudd. Why, we aren't even referring to the new war against smoking…
Read MoreArgo: Another Market Rider
Adelaide-based listed investment company, Argo Investments, has reported an 18.9% rise in 2007's net earnings to $171.537 million.
Read MoreNew Man At BlueScope, A Bid?
Major steelmaker, BlueScope Steel, has revealed a new CEO to replace the retiring boss, Kirby Adams, who has guided the company since it was set free from BHP back in 2002.
Read MoreWatch PRY In SYB-HSP Merger
An independent expert says a $2.86 billion offer for Symbion Health by Healthscope is in the best interests of Symbion shareholders.
Read MoreCopper Leads Major Commodities Lower
No help from commodities today to steady our market like there was a week ago.
Read MoreUS Bond Markets Tell The Real Story
Once again the American Treasury Bond market is telling us the real story about the state of the US economy and the fallout from the sub-prime mess.
Read MoreMarkets Fragile
According to evidence on Friday from US and Europe, the subprime mortgage crisis could impact on investor confidence for some time to come.
Read MoreThe Importance Of Profits
The Australian June half profit reporting season starts in earnest this week with companies such as AXA, Resmed, Stockland, Coca-Cola Amatil, News Corp, Bradken and Telstra due to report.
Read MoreRIO Misses Mark
Not the most positive start to the 2007 earnings season with mining giant Rio Tinto revealing a disappointing 14.3% drop in first half net profit, thanks to higher cost pressures and lower returns from copper and coal.
Read MoreSubprime Blues Rule OK
This was the week when the sub-prime mess became a contagion and the 'virus' as the Financial Times described it, went global.
Read MoreProfits: WAN, AUN, CXP, PBL Split Late
Perth-based newspaper monopoly, West Australian Newspapers Holdings, yesterday reported a near 20% rise in 'normalised net profit' (before noteworthy items) to $128.4 million for the 2007 financial year, ending June 30.
Read MoreCommodities Down
The strong Australian dollar continues to have an impact on returns from the resources boom.
Read MoreMarkets Sell-Off
For the second time in a week, Australian investors have taken fright and joined others around the world in selling the market in the face of an outbreak of problems in the US credit markets.
Read MoreTrade Figures Worsen In June
The trade figures for June were a bit grim, but the performance on the trade account over the year to June 30 showed a continuation of the improvement we have seen for the past four years or so.
Read MoreAlumina’s Mixed Message
A week ago Alumina Ltd was warning about a downgrade in full-year earnings. Yesterday, it appeared to go against that lower guidance when it reported a 9% rise in first half net profit to $284 million.
Read MoreMilton’s Boom Year
Milton Corp is another of the listed investment companies to report a very strong performance in the year to June 30.
Read MoreFlight Centre’s Latest Deal Crashes
Shareholders in Flight Centre, Australia's biggest travel agent, must be wondering if the phrase 'private equity buyout' is some sort of curse.
Read MoreCredit Rise Sets Up Rate Rise
The odds have firmed for an interest rate rise next week for the first time this year and there's an increasing chance that there could be another rise by the end of the year.
Read MoreHunter-Newcastle Delays Cost CNA
The planning delays and government shuffling over expanding the coal handling infrastructure in the Hunter Valley and at the port of Newcastle, has had a big impact on the earnings of Coal & Allied Ltd, in the June half.
Read MoreLEI Stalks MAH
Back in March, in a little-noticed interview on margin enhancement and growth, the retiring CFO and deputy CEO of Leighton Holdings, Dieter Adamsas, had this to say about expansion and growth, especially of new contracts:
Read MoreDollars Down Again
The slide in the Aussie and New Zealand dollars slowed yesterday as the local stockmarket stood against the trend from New York and finished higher, and Asian markets bounced back in the afternoon.
Read MoreSubprime Problems Continue
The problems rolling across the US housing industry and associated financial markets show no sign of ending their snaring of new victims.
Read MoreSome Property Does Well For ALZ
Real estate developer, Australand Property Group, has reported a 34 per cent lift in first half profit, following strong performances in its commercial and industrial and investment property arms.
Read MoreUranium Down
Now here's something that hasn't really filtered through to the market: world uranium prices have fallen for the first time in more than four years.
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