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=9057Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:25:21 +1000 Will this deal kill BG Group's multi-billion bid for Origin Energy? BG Group has launched a hostile $13.7 billion takeover for Origin Energy Ltd, in part to secure its gas resources in eastern Australia. Origin http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9056Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:26 +1000 Brambles shares were well and truly hammered yesterday by nervous investors after the company's 2008 earnings report and outlook failed to quell fears about its exposure to the troubled US economy and http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9055Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:20:09 +1000 Soft drink and alcohol group, Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) says it is on track for high single digit second half earnings growth after posting a surprisingly strong 22% lift in interim profit. The drinks http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9054Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:17:47 +1000 More and more Australian companies are finding themselves in the earnings' naughty corner, so far as investors are concerned; both for indifferent 2008 results and/or cloudy 2009 outlooks. In fact http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9053Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:15:44 +1000 Paintmaker Wattyl was caught up in intense competition caused by the downturn in the building industry which stopped the company passing on cost increases in the year to June 30. As a result profit http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9052Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:42:04 +1000 The market is up 33. It was up 36 at the peak. Not a bad performance in the face of a 131 point fall on Wall St and a 35 point fall in the Futures this morning. Main driver was a fall in the US dollar http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9051Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:34:08 +1000 Fears that the rise in interest rates had gone too far, thanks to the extra half a per cent or more from the banks, drove the change in interest rate policy by the Reserve Bank at its board meeting http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9050Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:31:55 +1000 So far this year (up till yesterday, anyway), Boral shares had outperformed the Australian market: their 3% fall compared favourably with the 21% drop in the broader market. That's easy to understand: http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9049Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:29:06 +1000 Consumer entertainment and technology group, JB Hi-Fi is maintaining its forecast 2009 sales growth estimate at 19%, after reporting a 61% rise in full-year profit for 2007-08, thanks to store expansion http://www.aireview.com.au/index.php?act=view&catid=8&id=9048Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:26:32 +1000 Results yesterday from gold miners, Newcrest and Lihir (See below) confirm the rightness of their decisions last year to eliminate the costly drag on earnings and their balance sheets from their