http://www.aireview.com.au Aireview Industry leading investment news portal en-us http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13353Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:54:39 +1100 Its 25 years since the turnaround at Woolworths was kicked off by retailing legend Paul Simons who decided to use the phrase: 'The fresh food people" to tag the struggling retailer to make it different http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13352Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:53:54 +1100 Trade data out yesterday for December, the second quarter and the first six months of the 2011-12 financial year put the lie to suggestions that our minerals boom has been derailed or is sagging as a http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13351Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:48:59 +1100 Who would have thought the US could get to a position where it could even think of getting investors to pay the government to lend it money. Switzerland, with its financial rectitude and strong currency, http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13350Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:56:46 +1100 Just as we had mixed news from the Japanese and Australian economies on Tuesday, yesterday we got the same story from China with two surveys of the country's manufacturing sector producing very different http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13349Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:55:53 +1100 We've all known that 2011 wasn't a good year for housing or house prices, and this week we have had that confirmed in spades. Record lows for lending and the biggest falls in capital city house prices http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13348Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:54:43 +1100 So how did markets go in January?#160; Australian shares had a very solid month, among the best of major markets and outperformed the US and some European bourses. The market rose 5.1% last month,#160;its http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13347Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:37:58 +1100 In one respect it was#160;a clever bit of marketing by Woolworths yesterday to announce#160;the restructuring and sale of its Dick Smith consumer electronics chain at the same time as it revealed weak http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13346Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:37:24 +1100 The mixed nature of the Australian economy was on display yesterday in reports from the monthly National Australia Bank business survey and the Reserve Bank's credit data for December and 2011. While#160;the http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13345Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:36:46 +1100 And we also had a mixed report card from the Japanese economy yesterday. Previous reports have confirmed a continuing slowdown in exports and the first yearly trade deficit for years, and yesterday http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=13344Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:18:10 +1100 On the eve#160;of releasing what are expected to be average second quarter and first half sales figures, Woolworths Ltd has revealed three new directors, two of whom have considerable retailing success