Jobs Look Solid
Being a quiet week this week for data and corporate reports, there's going to be a lot of focus on the jobs figures on Thursday.
Read MoreBeing a quiet week this week for data and corporate reports, there's going to be a lot of focus on the jobs figures on Thursday.
Read MoreThe weakness in the Coles and Wesfarmers share price has raised speculation that the $21.9 billion bid could be threatened.
Read MoreDon't be surprised if US financial markets get another dose of jitters this week as market interest rates again rise on good economic news.
Read MoreInterest rates will move to the forefront of the Australian economic debate this week with housing finance and labour force figures due for release.
Read MoreIt was an interesting AGM for CSR yesterday.
Read MoreSigns are emerging that there will not be any upturn in the US housing sector before the first quarter of 2008.
Read MoreThe past few weeks have seen lots of gloom surrounding the investment outlook.
Read MoreAfter spending more than a year being the ugly duckling of the commodity markets, in apparent disfavour from speculators and others, lead is having its time at the top of the heap.
Read MoreThe resources boom goes on, despite some fraying at the edges with the impact of the higher Australian dollar, labour and resources shortages and slowing prices
Read MoreThose Coles shareholders wondering about why there's a discount with the Wesfarmers' offer price should remember one thing.
Read MoreBase metal miner, Kagara Zinc, has cut its 2006-07 profit forecast by $45 million following problems at its Queensland operations.
Read MoreShares in Coles and its groom, Wesfarmers, fell as expected yesterday in the wake of their $22 billion, mostly scrip wedding.
Read MoreRio Tinto has shown confidence in the outlook of the aluminium industry in giving the green light to the $2.1 billion expansion of the Yarwun alumina refinery at Gladstone in central Queensland.
Read MoreThe stockmarket has anointed Fairfax the loser in its evaluation of the $1.3 billion carve-up of Southern Cross Broadcasting.
Read MoreThe market yesterday administered one of the biggest hidings seen for some time to a leading industrial stock when it sold down the shares of Sigma Pharmaceuticals by 20 per cent after a surprise profit downgrade.
Read MoreThey will be line-ball businesses: Coles under the ownership of Wesfarmers and its rival, Woolworths.
Read MoreThe slow-moving Fairfax media group has finally roused itself to do a cross media deal that will take it into radio and TV.
Read MoreThere was a small downturn in the Reserve Bank's Index of Commodity Prices in June, continuing a phase that began in March when the value of the Australian dollar started rising.
Read MoreIt's the news the Reserve Bank of Australia wants to see, it's probably not the news its New Zealand counterpart is too enthusiastic about.
Read MoreWesfarmers has made a bid for Coles on its own after the turmoil in debt markets saw the European buyout group, Permira withdraw, taking with it the local equity group, Pacific Equity Partners.
Read MoreSo local markets have had their fourth year of outperformance.
Read MoreDespite a weak performance for June, all three US market indexes gained for the quarter.
Read MoreBond yields down on more worries about easy money, subprime mortgages, junk bonds and hedge funds.
Read MoreIf Australian Pharmaceutical Industries thought it would soften the impact of a poor result by reporting the bare bones of the 2007 figures on Tuesday evening, it failed.
Read MoreAnd then there was one.
Read MoreThe US Federal Reserve's Open Markets Committee declined to touch interest rates at the end of its two day summer meeting in Washington which ended early Friday morning, Australian time.
Read MoreIt won't exactly be the finish to the financial year that everyone was hoping for a week or so ago when it seemed as though we had shaken off those early June blues about rising interest rates and falling Chinese stockmarkets.
Read MoreKerry Stokes' Seven Network Group will determine the success of the takeover approach to GRD by Transfield Services.
Read MoreThe market tasted then rejected the first half earnings upgrade from Coca-Cola Amatil.
Read MoreAustralian Pharmaceutical Industries releases what is expected to be an uninspiring annual profit later today.
Read MoreHas the very acquisitive Swiss based mining giant, Xstrata, been shut out of an Australian-linked deal for the second time in a month?
Read MoreSo we've just read the big picture. Here's the NAB's look at the states in much more detail.
Read MoreAs we approach the end of the 2006-07 financial year the National Australia Bank has produced another look at how the national economy is travelling.
Read MoreFrom the all time highs of around $US54,000 a tonne two months ago, nickel has undergone a significant correction, with prices down 25 per cent since early this month.
Read MoreFertiliser producer, Incitec Pivot, has revealed an interest in making a significant move into Indonesia.
Read MoreFor a small, troubled wine maker on the verge of going broke, Evans & Tate Wines is proving to be extremely popular.
Read MoreSky City Entertainment Group's Managing Director Evan Davies became the $47 million man yesterday after he quit, a month after the company forecast an 18 per cent drop in annual profit, job cuts and possible asset sales.
Read MoreContinuing growth in mineral and energy commodity prices and export volumes will boost Australia's commodity earnings to nearly $150 billion in the new financial year starting next Sunday, July 1.
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