AIR Midday Market Roundup The market is down 8. The SFE Futures were up 9 this morning.
Wall St. closed slightly higher overnight – up 12 – ... read more
Eco 2: Jobs Surged Last Month
Either the latest job ads survey from the ANZ Bank is a tip off that the labour market is tightening significantly ... read more
Betting On A Bid?
Shares in Centrebet International rose sharply yesterday after it revealed possible takeover talks.
The shares ... read more
Corporates: Atlas, Noble, GWA
Atlas Iron made a statement to the ASX yesterday, but not concerning any possible deal for its Ridley project in W ... read more
AIR Midday Market Roundup The market is up 2. The SFE Futures were up 7 this morning.
Wall St. closed slightly lower overnight – down 13 – ... read more
Recessionary Fears Weigh On Wesfarmers’ $4 Billion
The global sub-prime crisis and this week’s recessionary fears have rehashed concerns about Wesfarmers' (WES) ability to refinance almost $4 billion in debt by October, with the ... read more Aluminia Cuts Underlying Earnings Forecast
Shares in aluminium producer, Alumina (AWC) fell on Thursday after the company said it cut its underlying earnings for financial year 2007 to $409 million from previously estimat ... read more ASX Falls On US Recessionary Fears
Last updated at 1:30PM AEST January 7.
The Australian stock market has opened significantly lower today following a tumble on Wall Street last Friday, as a sharp rise ... read more
Dollar To Stay Strong, Then Sag
As risk worries have eased this week, the Australian dollar regained the 90 US cent mark, trading in a 2 cent range over the past few days.
It was another week and anothe ... read more No Crash For China?
As we read lower down today, China's economic rebound has dragged the rest of Asia back into the black.
But a growing number of western commentators (Many of them in Amer ... read more Gold’s 2010 Outlook
The outlook for gold looks promising in 2010, according to the World Gold Council and will be underpinned by investment demand.
This confident forecast came from the WGC, ... read more
Disaster Claims Rise For Insurers
Slowly the size of the bills for Victoria's storms and Queensland's floods, are taking shape.
So far over 22,000 claims have been received for the two disasters, but it is ear ... read more Betting On A Bid?
Shares in Centrebet International rose sharply yesterday after it revealed possible takeover talks.
The shares rose by more than 12% at one stage to a day's high of $1.89.
... read more Corporates: Atlas, Noble, GWA
Atlas Iron made a statement to the ASX yesterday, but not concerning any possible deal for its Ridley project in Western Australia.
The company said Monday that it expected to ... read more
ERA’s Earnings Surge
Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia posted record earnings in 2009, thanks to higher world prices finally hitting the bottom line through higher-priced sup ... read more BHP’s Busy Week
Last week was a busy one for BHP: there was a board meeting to examine the interim results (due for release the week after next) several deals and spending plans for given the gr ... read more Oil Search Wants $895 Million
Oil Search yesterday stunned the market by calling off the sale of part of its stake in the huge PNG LNG project and going to market for nearly $900 million in new capital.
... read more
Eco 1: Strong Confidence, Conditions
The Australian economy's recovery is accelerating, as two surveys yesterday indicate.
The ANZ Bank on job ads was very strong in February (see next story), while the ... read more Eco 2: Jobs Surged Last Month
Either the latest job ads survey from the ANZ Bank is a tip off that the labour market is tightening significantly, or it's playing catch up to the real economy after showing a f ... read more Arrow Bid Sends Coal Seam Gas Sector Higher
Arrow Energy shares bounded past $5 yesterday in the wake of a proposed offer surfacing from major shareholder, Shell, in partnership with PetroChina.
The two companies r ... read more
Qantas Booms, Your Say On That Bid
And finally, apart from last year's Telstra T3 sale nothing has generated reader reaction like the Qantas bid did. Thankfully
it is over but Qantas can benefit from the experien ... read more Your Say On TLS, Drought, Interest Rates And More
A mixed group of comments from T3, to the drought, to the Rinker battle and several other situations.Here’s a selection of the best comments from the last two week’s comments on ... read more Air Blog
Telstra remains the big issue for the Air Blog commentary and this week it was joined by the drought.Here's a selection of the week's postings.Watch The Drought: the Yanks Are!By ... read more