Highs For Aussie, Kiwi Dollars
It'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 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.
Read MoreThe Japanese 'carry trade' has continued to boost the values of the Australian and NZ dollars, which yesterday hit new 22 year highs in trading in Australasia.
Read MoreAmid all the volatility on Friday there was nothing setting commodity markets on fire.
Read MoreEnough questions remain unanswered about whether the US buyout groups are still interested in Coles Group, that some sort of formal statement on the exact state of play at Coles,should be requested by the securities regulator, ASIC.
Read MoreThe Bear Stearns bail out of one of its failing hedge funds was the biggest rescue since 1998, when Long Term Capital collapsed.
Read MoreOne of Wall Street's oldest adages is: markets don't hit bottom on a Friday; another is; don't go long over a weekend or public holiday.
Read MoreThe old pop song talks about 'breaking up' being 'so hard to do'.
Read MoreWith all the coverage in the media of the phenomenal growth of the Chinese market, other vital trading partners have been overshadowed a little in the excitement. Like a younger sibling, India has been closely tailing China over the past few years.
Read MoreMore guidance for listed companies ahead of the June 30 end of financial year with major industrial, Brambles, feeling the brunt of the market's displeasure with a mixed update.
Read MorePetrol pricing is now back as a 'water cooler' and 'BBQ stopper', or so the Federal Government thinks.
Read MoreAnother multi-billion dollar takeover offer pushed by American private equity firms has collapsed.
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank board meets in just under two weeks for the first discussion on interest rates for the new financial year. No one is expecting any move to raise or lower them.
Read MoreThe battle for Symbion Health is over.
Read MoreA day after being left on the shelf, the Ten Network released third quarter sales and gross profit figures showing a tentative recovery from the black hole of 2006 is continuing for the country's third-placed commercial TV Network.
Read MoreThe failure of the Ten TV network sale to private equity buyers means our great media boom is fading with James Packer and Kerry Stokes emerging as the winners for doing deals that really didn't need the changes in media laws introduced by the Howard Government.
Read MoreThe fate of Healthscope's $2.9 billion bid for rival Symbion, with two private equity partners, now rests in the hands of Healthscope following the expected offer from Sigma Pharmaceuticals and a leading corporate advisory firm.
Read MoreAs expected the good autumn and winter rains in parts of NSW, Victoria and South Australia, have revived the hopes for the 2007-08 winter grain crops.
Read MoreIt's amazing what a bit of money in the pocket can do to a politician with their hands on the economic levers.
Read MoreAnother all time high for Wesfarmers Ltd shares yesterday as it denied that it was withholding anything on its Coles Group bid from the market.
Read MoreZinifex CEO, Greig Gailey, is going early and going out in style as the company's shares responded positively to a presentation made at an investment conference yesterday.
Read MoreCopper rose and BHP Billiton shares and Rio shares rose to new record closes on the ASX yesterday.
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