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The turmoil and confusion on Friday meant that a revealing result from Newcrest Mining slipped past most investors.

Watch The Dollar, Watch Oil

The 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.

Markets 2: Where Now

So where to now for markets?

Markets 1… Why The Fed Cut

The US Federal Reserve galloped to the rescue to try and ease the credit lock up, not to bail out firms or boost equities markets.

WES’s Coles Ambitions

Wesfarmers has ambitious plans for Coles if its takeover is successful.

Good News From Qantas

Without 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.

Biotech; Mad Or Bad?

Perhaps 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.

A Nasty Day

The 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%.

Boral Hangs In There

There'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.

Health Care Merger Still Has Hurdles

Despite 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.

Retailers Go Well, Shares Down

It was a common story in yesterday's profit reporting flurry.

CBA OK, Banks Sold Off

Amid 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.

JBH Stands Out

Amid 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%.

Market Hears Cochlear Loud And Clear

Cochlear was another company to receive a volatile reception to what looked a decent result for the 2007 year.

Market Gives Leighton A Knock

So what happened at Leighton Holdings yesterday? A great result, beating guidance and the market gives it the thumbs down.

RAMS Shakes Market

For all the fear and loathing there was yesterday in the wake of the announcement by newly-listed mortgage group, Rams, that its earnings would be materially impacted by the subprime mess in the US, its been obvious for quite a while that there was an impact here.

Wild Day For United

A wild day for shares in rail and infrastructure services company, United Group, with a strong rise, and then a very sharp fall in a day when the overall market finished around 1% higher.

Market Likes Crane

Investors liked a lot of stocks yesterday in the modest rebound from Friday's nervy sell-off.

China Booms, Japan Slows

Two very different reports yesterday from the two economies that matter most to us in Australia.

What The RBA Said

The Reserve Bank's open-ended warning on interest rates breathed life into the Australian dollar, boosting it past the 85 USc mark as the punters and other speculators climbed back in the saddle after last week's nasty fall.

China Continues To Heat Up

Now another strong month of exports (and rising imports) for China would normally be seen as good news here in Australia…

Market Turmoil To Continue

The share market turmoil very likely has further to go.

Credit Worries, Commodities Price Troubles

Commodities prices fell last week as the credit markets turmoil hit energy and base metals, forcing hedge funds and other speculators to liquidate their positions.

Mining Boom Matures

The National Australia Bank has warned that there are distinct signs the Australian resources boom is turning down.

Profits: CCA, PMP Fail To Impress

Not happy Terry, that's what the market seemed to be saying to Coca Cola Amatil and its ebullient CEO, Terry Davis. Investors took set against Coca-Cola Amatil yesterday despite a 23% rise in interim earnings.

WES-Coles, Brambles

All but married would have to be the bottom line after the market reaction to the news that Wesfarmers would pay fully franked dividends of more than $2 a share ($1.50 in 2006) for at least two years, and would be giving Coles Group shareholders flexibility to mix and match the proposed offer.

Thumbs Down For TLS

No matter how hard it is spun, a bad ball is a bad ball in cricket and it is usually punished.

Banks’ Happy Marriage?

Will the Bank of Queensland try to muscle into the agreed merger between Bendigo Bank and Adelaide Bank which will create a super regional financial institution?

Who’s Moving On Brambles?

The Toll Holdings spin-off, Asciano Ltd, has been sprung with a small holding in rival transport services group, Brambles.

DJS Sales Surge

Another reason perhaps for the RBA wiping its brow and saying 'whew we got the rise in just in time', can be found in the confirmed fourth quarter sales figures from leading department store retailer, David Jones.

Fletcher Profit Up, Shares Down

Investors took a set against Fletcher Building Ltd yesterday in the wake of the New Zealand building products and services giant's 2007 results release and comments on the outlook.

Resmed Disappoints