Diary: Chinese, Data, Asian Rates, Australian Lending, US Profits
The coming week is full of traps and snares for investors in every market, be it equities, commodities or currencies.
Read MoreThe coming week is full of traps and snares for investors in every market, be it equities, commodities or currencies.
Read MoreFor such a rotten employment report, the Wall Street reaction ended up being surprisingly muted: at one stage the Dow was down by more than 150 points, but those loses were cut to just 62 points by the close early Saturday, our time.
Read MoreThe coming week is full of traps and snares for investors in every market, be it equities, commodities or currencies.
Read MoreThe latest rate rise from China’s central bank should make investors and others just that teensy weensy concerned about the country’s economy.
Read MoreThe Australian economy is not falling apart, despite all the talk of multi-speed economies, recession and doom and boom.
Read MoreBeach Energy says it and its 30% partner, Cooper Energy, plans to spend $24 million on nine exploration wells in the Cooper Basin region of Central Australia.
Read MoreThe multi-billion-dollar listings of QR National and Westfield Retail Trust on the Australian share market should be ignored in looking what was a weak financial year for public floats,
Read MoreChina has lifted interest rates a third time this year and for a 5th time in the last eight months.
Read MoreNo rate rise today, and possibly not in August.
Read MoreThe softness in the Australian labour market was underlined by yesterday’s ANZ job ads survey for June.
Read MoreSome reporting of the June car industry sales figures missed an important comparison.
Read MoreOn the bare numbers the trade figures for May were pretty simple, exports up, imports flat and surplus up to $2.33 billion.
Read MoreAs expected, the Reserve Bank sat on interest rates at yesterday’s meeting and the statement from Governor Glenn Stevens gave no hint about when that stance might change.
Read MoreAustralia and the US were the two surprise improvers in the regular monthly release of surveys of manufacturing activity in the world’s major economies Friday and Friday night, our time.
Read MoreA big week for most markets, especially in the US where a relief rally saw the best gains in two years and European markets had their best week in a year.
Read MoreNo rate rise today, and possibly not in August.
Read MoreThe softness in the Australian labour market was underlined by yesterday’s ANZ job ads survey for June.
Read MoreSlowly but surely the idea that the Pilbara iron ore mines of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and, lately, Fortescue Metals might be challenged by the Midwest area, further south in Western Australia, is crumbling.
Read MoreOne thing is certain, markets in the coming financial year will not be underwritten by the US Federal Reserve’s easy money activities (AKA QE2), they will have to look to more mundane factors for their stimulus.
Read MoreFor us in Australia, the 2010-11 financial year, June 30 half year, June quarter and month of June have all been confusing, to say the least.
Read MoreAnother busy week here and offshore for economic data.
Read MoreAustralia and the US were the two surprise improvers in the regular monthly release of surveys of manufacturing activity in the world’s major economies Friday and Friday night, our time.
Read MoreA big week for most markets, especially in the US where a relief rally saw the best gains in two years and European markets had their best week in a year.
Read MoreA week ago, the AMP’s chief strategist and chief economist, Dr Shane Oliver, re-examined the Wall of Worry that confronts markets and investors.
Read MoreOne thing is certain, markets in the coming financial year will not be underwritten by the US Federal Reserve’s easy money activities (AKA QE2), they will have to look to more mundane factors for their stimulus.
Read MoreGreece finally found sense this week and avoided committing financial suicide, for the time being at least.
Read MoreThere’s one nasty fact about the US economy that has been obscured by the very public argument about America’s debt ceiling, the threat of a default and the tooing and froing ahead of next year’s election.
Read MoreFor us in Australia, the 2010-11 financial year, June 30 half year, June quarter and month of June have all been confusing, to say the least.
Read MoreThe first of many, of just a one off?
Read MoreResolute Mining is looking at a very sharp jump in revenues (and presumably earnings) in the 2012 financial year after updating the market yesterday on its production plans which contained forecasts of a 24% rise in output and a near 20% drop in costs.
Read MoreCentro Properties Group and its listed spin-off, Centro Retail Group, have completed the $9.4 billion sale of their US asset to private equity company Blackstone.
Read MoreGood and bad news for Japan’s recovery in the industrial production and retail sales data for May, released this week.
Read MoreAmid rising public protest and violence in the streets of Athens, Greece’s parliament overnight approved a deeply unpopular 28 billion euro austerity package that will, for the time being see the country avoid default.
Read MoreASIC loved the Centro decision by the Federal Court on Monday and of course, the Centro directors who were found guilty didn’t like it.
Read MoreThat’s why the continuing outflow of money from Greece’s banks is becoming more of a worry.
Read MoreAnother multi-billion dollar Liquefied Natural Gas project is approaching the starting line, taking the value of the projects so far approved to well over $100 billion, with a couple of more mega projects to come.
Read MoreThe market seems to be pricing in a price of around $5.20 to $5.35, according to some reports.
Read MoreMore problems for the troubled Oakajee iron ore port and rail project proposed for the Western Australian Midwest, with one of the two developers revealing money-raising problems.
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