No Help From Commodities
There won't be any help to markets or investors today from commodity prices.
Read MoreThere won't be any help to markets or investors today from commodity prices.
Read MoreWhen the Consumer Price Index figures for the September quarter are released on Wednesday look for a fair bit of discussion about the impact of rising rents, interest rates and the impact of falling home affordability, on the level of prices.
Read MoreAustralian investors are a forgiving lot; at times.
Read MoreOil futures prices have moved at different speeds since the start of 2006 because of the impact of currency movements.
Read MoreAdelaide Bank has warned shareholders to beware of a company offering to buy their shares at the knock down bargain of around $7.80, compared to the current market price, which topped $15 on Tuesday.
Read MoreFor many investors, the gold market is an esoteric one, to put it mildly.
Read MoreThe equine flu crisis will not only hurt racing, harness racing or pacing, and non- thoroughbred activities, it is going to damage the finances of the big two of wagering, the ailing Tabcorp and the just-merged Tattersall's-UniTab company.
Read MoreWorld wheat prices finished the week at record levels in Chicago as continuing concerns about world stocks and falling production forced traders to cover.
Read MoreA solid end to the week in the US means a solid opening here today,thanks to better than expected new home purchase figures in America.
Read MoreInsurance Australia Group (IAG) has reported a 27% drop in annual profit to $552 million for 2007, a result that should not have come as that much of a surprise to the market and analysts because of the widespread publicity given to the two main factors.
Read MoreLed by BHP Billiton, another solid profit reporting season seems to be lifting sentiment in the local markets.
Read MoreBHP Billiton is confident that the China growth story will continue.
Read MoreAs suggested at the time of its half year production report, Santos was hit by the stronger Australian dollar in the six months to June which trimmed earnings noticeably.
Read MoreTravel agent, Flight Centre Ltd has revealed what all the buyout fuss has been about over the past 10 months or so.
Read MoreEight successive half year record profits in a row, capped by the latest which pushed the annual result of the world's biggest miner up 35% to $US13.7 billion (or $A16.27 billion at yesterday's exchange rate of 80.24 USc for the Australian dollar).
Read MoreOil and gold have been two very popular trading commodities (along with copper) for financial speculators such as hedge funds and other big funds.
Read MoreCSL is Australia's big pharma. A privatisation that was woefully under-priced and a magnificent deal for management and those early shareholders.
Read MoreBrambles is continuing its game of 'seek and tell' with its stalker, the Toll Holdings spin-off, Asciano Group Ltd.
Read MoreA day after BlueScope produced reasonable 2007 figures and a solid outlook, the country's other steel group, OneSteel, revealed more modest returns from 2007 and a more cautious outlook.
Read MoreOn a strict comparison, Virgin Blue did better than Qantas did last year.
Read MoreIt's been a big year for Seven network and its 42% owner, Kerry Stokes.
Read MoreThe market didn't like Pacific Brands' 4.7% rise in full year earnings and the forecast of a 10% better effort this financial year.
Read MoreMacquarie Bank will be hoping there's no more 'events' to spook markets as the company heads towards an October meeting of shareholders that will vote on the long awaited plans to create a non-operating holding company structure.
Read MoreBlueScope Steel, Australia's largest steelmaker, had to battle the stronger dollar in the second half but still came up with a reasonable result in the year to June 2007.
Read MoreMajor insurer, QBE Insurance, boosted first half earnings by 56% for the 2007 financial year and has forecast a double digit growth in earnings for the full 12 months to December.
Read MoreThe market once again took a shine to the annual result from online jobs group, Seek.
Read MoreThe turmoil and confusion on Friday meant that a revealing result from Newcrest Mining slipped past most investors.
Read MoreThe value of the Australian dollar has emerged as the major variable for interest rates, along with the progress of oil prices for the next day or so with a major hurricane threatening the US Gulf Coast and oil producing facilities.
Read MoreSo where to now for markets?
Read MoreThe US Federal Reserve galloped to the rescue to try and ease the credit lock up, not to bail out firms or boost equities markets.
Read MoreWesfarmers has ambitious plans for Coles if its takeover is successful.
Read MoreWithout all the subprime fear and the crunching happening in financial markets, the Qantas result should have produced a flood of 'we told you sos' directed at the board and management of the airline, especially from a couple of fund managers who went out on a limb in their early opposition to the $11.1 billion buyout from the Macquarie Bank-led private equity mob.
Read MorePerhaps the first time the world realised that the stuff of science fiction had a human dimension with genuine possibilities was in January 1998 when a Chicago physicist, Dr Richard Seed announced that he would clone a human being.
Read MoreThe dollar plunged, and plunged, and its New Zealand counterpart went the same way. For a couple of hours our market and some in Asia went the same way, and yet when it was all over, the loss on the day was only just over 1%.
Read MoreThere's a certain inevitability about Boral, the diversified building products group with exposure to the troubled Australian and US housing markets, as well as the booming resource and infrastructure industries.
Read MoreDespite the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approving the merger of hospitals operator, Healthscope, and pathology, medical centres and pharmacy services group, Symbion Health, the deal is not a happening thing, yet.
Read MoreIt was a common story in yesterday's profit reporting flurry.
Read MoreAmid yesterday's carnage on the market, especially in banking stocks, the Commonwealth Bank produced a result that would normally have prompted a bit of a rally in the sector.
Read MoreAmid trading on what was a lacklustre and at times grumpy day on the market, JB Hi-Fi stood out with a 12% rise in share price, not earnings, which surged 56%.
Read MoreCochlear was another company to receive a volatile reception to what looked a decent result for the 2007 year.
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