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Good News: Japan Still Growing
More good news for Australia, our second biggest export market, Japan, has had its second consecutive quarter of economic growth. Figures released yesterday in Tokyo show the pace of...
- Australasian Investment Review Tuesday November 17, 10:09 AM -
IPL Cuts Asset Values, Sees Tough 2010
Incitec Pivot did some house cleaning on asset values for 2009 and ended up reporting a loss for the September 30 financial year. It was a tack the market liked and the shares rose 6.5%...
- Australasian Investment Review Tuesday November 17, 10:08 AM -
Breville's Expected "No" to GUD
Breville Group has formally rejected a takeover offer from GUD, citing an independent expert's report in its target statement that has concluded the offer is neither fair nor...
- Australasian Investment Review Tuesday November 17, 10:07 AM -
OneSteel Has No Earnings Guidance For 2010
Our second biggest steel group, OneSteel Ltd, is expecting reasonably strong levels of activity in key sectors of the economy from next year, as a result of government stimulus measures. But before...
- Australasian Investment Review Tuesday November 17, 10:06 AM -
Wall Street Up On Mixed News
Wall Street rose on a mixture of positive and negative news overnight, ignoring the latter and focusing solely on the former. The Dow was up more than 130 points, oil rose, the Aussie dollar was...
- Australasian Investment Review Tuesday November 17, 06:26 AM -
Europe Out Of The Red
Europe staggered out of recession in the September quarter, but left the UK and Spain as the only major economies in the zone still in the red. Figures out Friday night showed that the...
- Australasian Investment Review Monday November 16, 10:33 AM -
BA-Iberia Merger Confirms Qantas' Class
Qantas has had another escape from a lunacy contemplated by the airline's board, this one only a year ago. It came 18 months after the May, 2007 attempt by private equity to snatch...
- Australasian Investment Review Monday November 16, 10:33 AM -
Another Solid Week For Markets
American markets, like most around the world, finished the week with solid gains and will be looking for a bit more this week. News that three more US banks failed over the weekend won't impact...
- Australasian Investment Review Monday November 16, 10:32 AM -
Commodities: Oil Weak
Gold extended its record breaking run, oil was weak, but the big mover in commodities was the sharp rise in the freight market late last week. The Baltic Dry index, the global benchmark for...
- Australasian Investment Review Monday November 16, 10:31 AM -
DIARY: Watch GM, US Retail Sales
A relatively quiet week for major events, but one which will be of interest is the update from American carmaker General Motors which will report third-quarter results this week. The...
- Australasian Investment Review Monday November 16, 08:31 AM -
Job Losses Closer To Peaking
The Reserve Bank got its timing right for its switch on monetary policy, starting with the October rate rise, backed up by November's Melbourne Cup day increase. The October labour force...
- Australasian Investment Review Friday November 13, 10:12 AM -
China's Copper Imports Fall, Prices To Follow?
Copper prices remain stuck in a narrow range between $US2.90 and $US3 a pound as analysts wonder if the rise in surplus metal stocks in Asia is signalling that China's restocking is...
- Australasian Investment Review Friday November 13, 10:08 AM -
Looking At A Possible Double Dip
Last week, Dr Shane Oliver, the AMP's chief economist, went through all the reasons why the cyclical bull market in shares has further to run: the economic and profit recovery has further to...
- Australasian Investment Review Friday November 13, 10:03 AM -
China's Recovery Getting Stronger
Good news for Australia, China's strong economic growth remains on track after more solid economic stats for October. House prices, industrial production and retail sales were all stronger...
- Australasian Investment Review Thursday November 12, 10:45 AM -
More To Confidence Than Meets The Eye
Confidence manifests itself in different ways, not just interest rates and at the consumer level, which eased in October, but not by much (see below). In the midst of the toughest 12-18 months...
- Australasian Investment Review Thursday November 12, 10:44 AM
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