Corporates: Sigma, Woodside
Sigma Pharmaceuticals wants more time to sort out its 2009 financial results.
Read MoreSigma Pharmaceuticals wants more time to sort out its 2009 financial results.
Read MoreSolomon Lew’s Premier Investments first-half net profit apparently dropped 13.7% and but the company said it remains "cautiously optimistic" about the performance of Just Group.
Read MoreChina won’t be pleased.
Read MoreAs expected, Shell and PetroChina sweetened their combined bid for Arrow Energy with a bit more cash and certainty for the international assets to be valued, and the Australian company said yes.
Read MoreGreece is going to dominate world markets this week, making for some nervy trading on sharemarkets and in currencies and commodities.
Read MoreGlobal share markets eased Friday after a run of six to eight days of rises as the US dollar firmed off the back of increased worries about Greece.
Read MoreThe euro’s weakness saw the US dollar rise on Friday and last week, knocking oil prices lower and weakening other commodities.
Read MoreWe should know today or tomorrow if Shell and PetroChina have come up with a share price for their takeover bid that Arrow Energy will recommend to shareholders.
Read MoreA year ago there were plenty of things to worry investors, but given the rebound and obvious improvement in the various economies, there should be fewer concerns.
Read MoreThe dopey US Congressmen and business exerting pressure on the Obama Administration to DO ‘something’ about China’s refusal to allow the Yang to float, haven’t done their homework.
Read MoreThere were some very optimistic forecasts around this week for mineral demand and prices.
Read MoreOne comment from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest outlook summed up the incredible strength of China on global markets.
Read MoreIs Sigma Pharmaceuticals all but broke and effectively under the control of its banks?
Read MoreSo it looks like Greece will be supported and stopped from defaulting on its huge debts, who will be next?
Read MoreIn the US the Fed yesterday morning said US housing starts were "at a depressed level". At its late January meeting it didn’t single out the crushed housing sector.
Read MoreShares in AWB took a pounding again yesterday after yet another profit downgrade.
Read MoreDavid Jones’ interim result and commentary again confirmed why it is important to look at what companies and their boards do, not just what they say in their commentaries.
Read MoreCorporate Express Australia has copped a $1 billion mop up bid from its major shareholder, the Staples office supplies chain of the US.
Read MoreA year ago the 2008 annual report of Rio Tinto was full of qualified optimism, the Chinalco shareholding, commodity prices being low, and the uncertain outlook as the global recession and credit crunch battered confidence and the company.
Read MoreThe cost of Melbourne’s hailstorm 10 days ago is moving past half a billion dollars, with close to 70,000 claims made to three major insurers.
Read MoreStruggling CBH Resources has suddenly found itself the most popular kid on the block with either the third or fourth proposal to the company in as many months for a controlling stake.
Read MoreArrow Energy says it’s still talking to Shell and PetroChina about their joint unsolicited offer. LNG Ltd says it and Arrow have agreed to a sort of trial separation, if yesterday’s update from LNG is any guide.
Read MoreLNG Ltd, Arrow Energy’s partner in the Fisherman’s Landing liquefied natural gas project at Gladstone in Queensland asked for a trading halt yesterday ahead of an announcement promised for today that would clarify its immediate relationship with Arrow.
Read MoreThe Macarthur Coal-Noble group coal shuffle is edging closer to fruition.
Read MoreNo reaction from local investors in Incitec Pivot, our major listed fertiliser group, in the local market yesterday to a strong profit upgrade from Canadian giant, Potash Corp.
Read MoreOPEC member countries meet Wednesday night (Australian time) and no change is expected to the current 24.845 million barrels a day production quota.
Read MoreThe lingering worry that Greece will default on its billions of euros of government debt could be ended within days, according to media reports from Europe.
Read MoreThe US Federal Reserve has a one day meeting this week at which interest rates will be the only topic of real interest.
Read MoreIndonesia was confirmed as the best placed south Asian economy in the wake of the global recession with another ratings agency upgrade to its credit standing on Friday.
Read MoreThe $US15 billion PNG LNG project has cleared its last hurdles and will proceed.
Read MoreAfter rallying nearly $US100 in two months, gold gave up some of those gains last week, taking many investors in the metal by surprise
Read MoreEuropean and global markets ended around two-month highs Friday, but US shares struggled after the S&P 500 hit a 17-month closing high the day before.
Read MoreThe AMP’s chief economist, Dr Shane Oliver says there is a distinct cloud hanging over the return outlook for government bonds in many advanced countries, but not Australia.
Read MoreWe have been warned, the current housing boom risks a lot of tears and frustration if the Reserve Bank is forced to crunch it to save the rest of the economy from overheating.
Read MoreA thumbs down from the market for Myer Holdings’ first interim profit as a listed company for near 25 years.
Read MoreShock horror, China’s consumer inflation is now running at 2.7% and ‘house prices boom, bubble, boom and bust’ yell the western analysts.
Read MoreThis week we have seen the importance of confidence underlined as a very important (but hard to achieve) part of economic policy.
Read MoreJust over two weeks after revealing its 2009 profit and losses (but promising to improve), poker machine group, Aristocrat Leisure has revealed a major board shake-up with three directors to retire.
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