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Djerriwarrh Investments, another of the investment companies associated with Goldman Sachs JBWere, has lifted net operating profit (excluding capital gains) 42.5 per cent to $54.9 million in the year to June.
Read MoreDjerriwarrh Investments, another of the investment companies associated with Goldman Sachs JBWere, has lifted net operating profit (excluding capital gains) 42.5 per cent to $54.9 million in the year to June.
Read MoreSwiss-owned fund manager, UBS, has paid dearly for the loss of high profile manager, Paul Fiani, and some of his workmates at its flagship Australian Share Fund, over the last few months.
Read MoreInvestors around the world have a lot to thank Rio Tinto for.
Read MoreRio Tinto has flagged that it is looking at selling some of its business units after it completed the $US38.1 ($44 billion) billion acquisition of Alcan.
Read MoreFar from the mid-year slump forecast in March and April, sugar is on the way up.
Read MoreThe Australian dollar climbed over 87 US cents in US markets Friday night, so you can bet on the impact of the currency becoming an issue as we head towards the start of the 2007 annual results season early next month.
Read MoreWoolworths' shares yesterday recovered some of the losses incurred in the wake of the early release of the 2007 sales figures and earnings guidance on Tuesday.
Read MoreIn reality it's a hard to understand the move by HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage bank, and owner of BankWest in Perth, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in building more than 160 branches across Australia to win more business from the rest of the local banking industry.
Read MoreRio Tinto has made a $US38.1 billion ($A44.2 billion), $US101 per share cash offer for Canadian aluminium group, Alcan, in the biggest takeover yet seen in the worldwide resources industry.
Read MoreThe world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, has signalled that the huge Olympic Dam mining project in South Australia is moving towards a multi-billion dollar expansion.
Read MoreLike it or not you'd have to wonder if Woolworths has shot itself in a small appendage over the past couple of days, despite the flood of gush from some broking analysts about the 2007 sales figures and profit guidance.
Read MoreAustralian business continues to travel well, holding out hopes that the June 30 reporting season will be a good one.
Read MoreThe stunning 25 per cent rise in the Australian stockmarket has produced a sharp rise in earnings for the Goldman Sachs JBWere-associated listed investment company, Mirrabooka Investments.
Read MoreIn good news for the five listed companies with an interest in the Australian radio industry, figures released by Commercial Radio Australia show that in the six months to June 30, radio revenues accelerated, rising 7 per cent to $301 million, with a turnaround in the highly competitive Sydney market apparent for the first time.
Read MoreFar from sending a message to would be rivals, Wesfarmers and Coles Group, Woolworths seems to have disappointed the market in advancing the release of its 2007 financial year (and fourth quarter) sales and profit guidance by a week.
Read MoreIf the International Energy Agency is correct, then a global economic slowdown might be the only thing the world can hope for to help avoid a supply/price crunch and the continued rise in world oil prices.
Read MoreHas a rare chance emerged for a one off deal involving two of the major parts of Richard Branson's Virgin aviation empire?
Read MoreAmid a record day on the ASX, shares in miners, Oxiana and Zinifex, jumped sharply yesterday on suggestions the pair could be planning a merger to ward off unwanted attention from international rivals.
Read MoreWith the burden of its South Korean adventure soon to be behind it, the market has re-marked the shares in Coca Cola Amatil, boosting them by more than three per cent yesterday.
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.
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