Markets: Fab Quarter, But For How Long?
Yes, on the whole global financial markets have had a fabulous quarter with winners outweighing losers, but the question now for investors to consider is, can it go on?
Read MoreYes, on the whole global financial markets have had a fabulous quarter with winners outweighing losers, but the question now for investors to consider is, can it go on?
Read MoreUS jobs, the Australian Reserve Bank’s monthly interest rate decision, Chinese manufacturing and Japanese business sentiment will dominate a trading week shortened for the great Easter bun and chocolate festival.
Read MoreIs the US economy about to save the world? We all hope so.
Read MoreLeighton Holdings has confirmed what more and more investors have been suspecting, that it is a wealth destroyer, not a creator and that if they are really brutal, its time as a listed company in Australia is now looking limited.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the 53rd of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors was shutdown for regular inspection, leaving just one reactor operating in the country.
Read MoreThe Australian market sparked yesterday for a second day in a row, despite a down day on Wall Street Tuesday night and weakness in other Asian markets.
Read MoreShares in the Bank of Queensland relisted yesterday after the first stage of a $450 million capital raising, and contrary to previous belief, the damage to the share prices wasn’t too heavy.
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank has given the Australian financial system and banks a tick of good health in its first Stability Review of 2012.
Read MoreRio Tinto has joined rival BHP Billiton in reviewing its increasingly minor involvement in the diamond industry.
Read MoreShares in agricultural chemicals supplier Nufarm were sold off sharply in yesterday’s solid market, despite the company reporting a solid interim profit.
Read MoreOut of the blue, earnings downgrades for the 2011-12 financial year have started appearing, less than a month after the interim reporting season ended.
Read MoreStruggling Tasmanian forestry products company Gunns is continuing to try and raise fresh capital after the earlier plans were wrecked by the withdrawal of a cornerstone investor.
Read MoreAquila Resources and Vale of Brazil have patched up their quarrel over the big Isaac Plains export coking coal project in Queensland.
Read MoreIt’s not the start of a trend, but the loss from the Bank of Queensland should worry investors.
Read MoreFriday marks the end of an eventful first quarter for financial markets.
Read MoreAfter days of being battered downwards, gold futures rebounded Friday, rising $20 an ounce to finish higher for the week as a fall in the value of the US dollar fed a rally in commodity markets.
Read MoreWas last week a reminder to the bulls that the rebound is becoming overbought, or were the big falls (especially in Europe) a timely warning that the problems which gave us the miserable final quarter for 2011 (and 2010) are still with us?
Read MoreIt has taken quite a while, but the equity bulls are back and starting to bellow.
Read MoreIndia has long been touted as the next coming emerging economy, and judging by the performance up to last year, it was a contender.
Read MoreWith the reports in the past week from Myer, David Jones, Kathmandu and OrotonGroup we know Australian retailing had a tough six months or so at the back end of 2011 and early this year, but has it been as tough as much of the reporting and commentary suggested?
Read MoreAustralia’s mineral and energy exports will rise at a slower pace of 4.6% to $208.32 billion Australian in 2012-13, as demand for commodities slows in Asia and in China in particular.
Read MoreAnd as we have seen, David Jones wasn’t alone in delivering bad news to investors yesterday.
Read MoreDavid Jones hasn’t been competitive with the emerging online retailing sector for years, and in the past six to eight months, its efforts in the analogue retailing space haven’t been too flash either.
Read MoreEven though the RBA says there is "ample scope" to cut interest rates if there is a threat to the health of the Australian economy, the prospects of that threat appearing is on the retreat, according to the minutes of the central bank’s March board meeting.
Read MoreQueensland coal miner New Hope has become an early warner among Australian coal exporters after telling shareholders yesterday that current talks in Japan on thermal coal contracts could impact earnings in the coming years.
Read MoreNow, people are fretting about iron ore exports after BHP Billiton said demand for the steelmaking raw material had "flattened".
Read MoreBrisbane-based mining and environmental testing group Campbell Brothers is back on the takeover trial in a new area of business.
Read MoreShares in department store group David Jones are in a trading halt while the company hammers out the final make up of a new strategy to try and reinvigorate the group after the trading slump seen in 2011.
Read MoreIf you listen to the some of the commentary in Australia and overseas, China is now something of a threat to Australia’s well being, especially with the lower target growth rate of 7.5%.
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank is back on centre stage in Australia this week with a series of public commentaries or speeches planned.
Read MoreNew York gold finished with a tiny gain in after hours trading after losing ground in the normal trading session on Friday night, our time.
Read MoreAnother solid week for markets, even if the finish on Friday night in the US was uneven.
Read MoreAfter a brief flurry of optimism that saw the shares rise yesterday in the wake of the expected fall in interim earnings, Myer shares closed the day down 9c or 3.3% at $2.28.
Read MoreJudging by recent speeches and comments, the RBA is clearly wondering why the value of the Australian dollar hasn’t fallen after that 4.7% dip on our terms of trade in the final quarter of 2011.
Read MoreOn February 14, the Bank of Japan broke with tradition and announced an inflation target of 1%.
Read MoreIt wasn’t a surprise that consumer sentiment fell in the latest survey from Westpac and the Melbourne Institute, nor was it a surprise that housing construction finished 2012 on a weak note.
Read MoreWhen is a billion dollar debt raising not enough?
Read MoreProperty developer Stockland Group yesterday took another move to expand its share buyback by selling another asset to finance the expansion.
Read MoreDays after being rejected by a Kiwi billionaire, is there a new saviour on the horizon for embattled Tasmanian wood products group Gunns and its pulp mill project?
Read MoreBusiness conditions improved a little in February, according to the latest monthly survey from the National Australia Bank, while business confidence fell.
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