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Splits: BHP Plotting An Asset Shuffle & Split?
BHP Billiton (BHP) has all but confirmed it is looking at slimming down and spinning off weak or non-essential assets in alumina, aluminium, manganese, thermal coal, bauxite and nickel with a value of up to $A20 billion.
Read MoreAustralia: RBA Resumes Fretting About The Dollar
The Aussie dollar was buffeted yesterday by buying pressure in the wake of the expected decision by the Reserve Bank to leave interest rates on hold – and the weak report on part of China’s huge manufacturing sector from HSBC Markit.
Read MoreAsia: Manufacturing Subdued, But Not Fading, Despite The Bears
Mixed news from Asia in a mix of start of month and quarter reports from Japan, China, Indonesia, India, South Korea and Taiwan and Australia.
Read MoreAt The Close: Slight Rebound, BHP Rise Continues
CommSec’s Juliette Saly provides an afternoon financial market update. BHP Billiton remains in focus on demerger speculation.
Read MoreMarket At Midday: No April Fool
CommSec’s Juliette Saly provides a Mid-session financial market update. The RBA meets today, with rates tipped to remain on hold.
Read MoreCommodities Mixed To Stronger With Rural Products Surging
A mixed to surprisingly solid quarter for many commodities – ignoring the weakness in gold and copper’s woes – with agricultural products, such as the grains, sugar and coffee the standout performers.
Read MoreStocks End Lackluster Quarter With A Gain
Most sharemarkets ended March on an up note in what some analysts said was a bout of window dressing (designed to lift prices and indexes and produce more fees for managers).
Read MoreA Less Than Funtastic First Half Result
As expected, toy wholesaler Funtastic (FUN) has produced a loss and omitted an interim dividend after yet another stumble.
Read MoreEconomy Improving, But No Rate Move
More evidence yesterday that the economy is starting to tick over a bit more quickly.
Read MoreAt The Close: BHP Helped Limit Losses
The Australian sharemarket had an eventful session. BHP was a standout following demerger speculation, the RBA kept rates on hold and Chinese data was mixed.
Read MoreMarket At Midday: Month End Optimism
Local stocks have started the new trading week with solid gains, every sector measured by the ASX is trading higher at lunchtime.
Read MoreThe Week Ahead
Another big data week for Australia, and a number of other economies offshore with the monthly surveys of manufacturing and then services, a couple of central bank meetings, and to cap off the week, the all important US jobs report on Friday night – this time its for March.
Read MoreWall St Jumpy Over New Book
It’s extremely rare that a book can unsettle Wall Street.
Read MoreAUD Heading For Solid March Gains, Gold Down
Another strong week for the Australian dollar, which hit a series of new four month highs in offshore trading on Friday night and early Saturday, our time.
Read MoreMarkets: Watch Nasdaq & Its Biotechs
While markets were mostly mixed to slightly stronger last week, the US Nasdaq market and its plethora of tech stocks fell sharply, especially biotechs.
Read MoreAt The Close: Best Gains In 4 Trading Days
The Australian sharemarket rose by 0.5% today; however failed to maintain the 0.8% gains recorded earlier in day. Lending and new home sales rose while inflation remains contained.
Read MoreNew Hope Weighs On Soul Patts
Soul Pattinson (SOL) also reported yesterday and revealed a net profit of $73.7 million for the six months to January 31, down slightly from $74.3 million in the same period a year earlier.
Read MoreBrickworks Rides The Housing Recovery
First it was Boral (BLD) with its interim profit, revealing a sharp improvement as the local building boom kicked in – next week it will be CSR no doubt reporting signs of life.
Read MoreQube’s $200 Million Grain Play
Logistics group Qube Holdings (QUB), chaired by former Patricks boss Chris Corrigan, continues to expand and is now eyeing the east coast grain sector.
Read MoreSigma To Expand Revamp
Is there a bit of a growth story emerging from pharmacy wholesaler, Sigma Pharmaceuticals (SIP)?
Read MoreAt The Close: Local Stocks Grind Higher
The ASX 200 started the day just in negative territory, although it drifted higher over the afternoon on Friday to finish within sights of the best levels of the day. The ASX 200 has gained just over 0.5% in the last 5 days.
Read MoreKmart’s Lessons For Myer & David Jones
For the past two months our eyes and ears have been full of stories about David Jones (DJS) or Myer (MYR), the tweedledum and tweedledee of Australian department store retailing.
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Read MoreMarket At Midday: Little Movement
The index traded down by 7 points at the low of the day and was ahead by the same amount at its best. There has been little on offer to motivate buyers or sellers alike in terms of corporate news.
Read MoreMarket At Midday: Market Giving Back Gains
CommSec’s Juliette Saly delivers a Mid-Session update. The market is giving back Wednesday’s gains.
Read MoreDollar Jumps On Stevens’ Upbeat Take On The Economy
The Australian dollar jumped towards 93 US cents last night as markets ignored a fitful attempt from Reserve bank Governor, Glenn Stevens to talk the currency lower in a major speech in Hong Kong yesterday.
Read MoreRBA’s All Clear For Financial Sector, But Life Companies A Worry
Yes, the Reserve Bank scolded banks and other home lenders about a drift in lending practices – but on the whole, the sector remains conservative and well placed financially, as tipped in yesterday’s email.
Read MoreNufarm Sold Off Despite Profit Rise
Shares in Nufarm (NUF) swung sharply yesterday as investors assessed the company’s solid interim report, and speculated on the damage the recent rise in the Australian dollar would do to the company which saw sales in Brazil jump sharply in the six months to the end of January.
Read MoreFonterra Reveals Dark Side Of Dairy Boom
New Zealand’s milk products boom has a dark side – as Fonterra (FSF), the world’s leading exporter, revealed yesterday.
Read MoreAt The Close: Banks Help Market Recover
Sellers returned to the ASX on Thursday with miners getting the most attention. A turnaround for banks helped the market recover from session lows.
Read MoreNew Hope Slumps On Weak Coal Prices
On Monday Yanzhou, the big Chinese coal company, pulled its mop up bid for its 78% local arm, Yancoal (YAL). While there wasn’t any explanation, the weak state of the coal industry here and in China undoubtedly played a part.
Read MorePremier’s Retail Business Starting To Grow & Grow
Melbourne-based retail group, Premier Investments (PMV) has lifted interim dividend one cent a share to 20c a share after reporting a 12% rise in net profit for the first half of 2012-13.
Read MoreTPG Jumps On Solid Earnings Upgrade
TPG Telecom (TPM) has upgraded its earnings guidance, beating analyst expectations for its interim profit and raised industry speculation it could make a move on rival telecommunications provider iiNet (IIN).
Read MoreFinancial System To Get Another Safety Tick
The health of Australia’s financial system will get a big tick this week in the Reserve Bank’s first report on financial stability for 2014, to be released later today.
Read MoreAt The Close: ASX 200 Holds Early Gains
The ASX 200 consolidated on its early gain gains to finish with in sight of session highs on Wednesday. Banks and Miners led the way. The government announced the sale of Medibank with an IPO expected in the 2014/15 financial year.
Read MoreMarket At Midday: Buyers Return
Buyers have returned to the local sharemarket on Wednesday with every ASX sector trading higher at lunchtime led by the miners.
Read MoreAUD, Equities Solid Despite China PMI Fall
So much for the impact of the weak Chinese manufacturing survey yesterday – it rattled local markets briefly but the Aussie market was higher by the end of the day after starting out lower. The Aussie dollar fell around a third of a cent on the news of the slower than expected data, but then bounced sharply overnight in offshore trading to hit new 2014 highs in the US.
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