Health Of The States
So we've just read the big picture. Here's the NAB's look at the states in much more detail.
Read MoreSo we've just read the big picture. Here's the NAB's look at the states in much more detail.
Read MoreAs we approach the end of the 2006-07 financial year the National Australia Bank has produced another look at how the national economy is travelling.
Read MoreFrom the all time highs of around $US54,000 a tonne two months ago, nickel has undergone a significant correction, with prices down 25 per cent since early this month.
Read MoreFertiliser producer, Incitec Pivot, has revealed an interest in making a significant move into Indonesia.
Read MoreFor a small, troubled wine maker on the verge of going broke, Evans & Tate Wines is proving to be extremely popular.
Read MoreSky City Entertainment Group's Managing Director Evan Davies became the $47 million man yesterday after he quit, a month after the company forecast an 18 per cent drop in annual profit, job cuts and possible asset sales.
Read MoreContinuing growth in mineral and energy commodity prices and export volumes will boost Australia's commodity earnings to nearly $150 billion in the new financial year starting next Sunday, July 1.
Read MoreThe Japanese 'carry trade' has continued to boost the values of the Australian and NZ dollars, which yesterday hit new 22 year highs in trading in Australasia.
Read MoreAmid all the volatility on Friday there was nothing setting commodity markets on fire.
Read MoreEnough questions remain unanswered about whether the US buyout groups are still interested in Coles Group, that some sort of formal statement on the exact state of play at Coles,should be requested by the securities regulator, ASIC.
Read MoreThe Bear Stearns bail out of one of its failing hedge funds was the biggest rescue since 1998, when Long Term Capital collapsed.
Read MoreOne of Wall Street's oldest adages is: markets don't hit bottom on a Friday; another is; don't go long over a weekend or public holiday.
Read MoreThe old pop song talks about 'breaking up' being 'so hard to do'.
Read MoreWith all the coverage in the media of the phenomenal growth of the Chinese market, other vital trading partners have been overshadowed a little in the excitement. Like a younger sibling, India has been closely tailing China over the past few years.
Read MoreMore guidance for listed companies ahead of the June 30 end of financial year with major industrial, Brambles, feeling the brunt of the market's displeasure with a mixed update.
Read MorePetrol pricing is now back as a 'water cooler' and 'BBQ stopper', or so the Federal Government thinks.
Read MoreAnother multi-billion dollar takeover offer pushed by American private equity firms has collapsed.
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank board meets in just under two weeks for the first discussion on interest rates for the new financial year. No one is expecting any move to raise or lower them.
Read MoreThe battle for Symbion Health is over.
Read MoreA day after being left on the shelf, the Ten Network released third quarter sales and gross profit figures showing a tentative recovery from the black hole of 2006 is continuing for the country's third-placed commercial TV Network.
Read MoreThe failure of the Ten TV network sale to private equity buyers means our great media boom is fading with James Packer and Kerry Stokes emerging as the winners for doing deals that really didn't need the changes in media laws introduced by the Howard Government.
Read MoreThe fate of Healthscope's $2.9 billion bid for rival Symbion, with two private equity partners, now rests in the hands of Healthscope following the expected offer from Sigma Pharmaceuticals and a leading corporate advisory firm.
Read MoreAs expected the good autumn and winter rains in parts of NSW, Victoria and South Australia, have revived the hopes for the 2007-08 winter grain crops.
Read MoreIt's amazing what a bit of money in the pocket can do to a politician with their hands on the economic levers.
Read MoreAnother all time high for Wesfarmers Ltd shares yesterday as it denied that it was withholding anything on its Coles Group bid from the market.
Read MoreZinifex CEO, Greig Gailey, is going early and going out in style as the company's shares responded positively to a presentation made at an investment conference yesterday.
Read MoreCopper rose and BHP Billiton shares and Rio shares rose to new record closes on the ASX yesterday.
Read MoreWestfield Group shares survived the first day of trading since announcing its mammoth $3 billion share issue last week in not too bad a shape.
Read MoreWorld wheat prices have had their best finish to a week for more than a decade, holding out hopes that embattled Australian grain growers will receive a quick boost after the misery of the 2006-07 drought.
Read MoreA spiky, volatile week last week and we can expect more of the same in the week ahead, but activity might settle down as it becomes clear there's little upward pressure on US prices and thereforeinterest rates.
Read MoreAnother glimpse of the problems confronting the Chinese authorities: not only is inflation rising, but industrial production is now running well above the level the government thinks comfortable.
Read MoreNow this takeover situation is either going to pan out or it will be a very messy, very sticky corporate play that causes casualties.
Read MoreHousing rated a substantial mention in yesterday's speech by the Governor of The Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens.
Read MoreWell, both reassuring news and an old, old message from Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens.
Read MoreCyclones and heavy monsoonal rains stripped $1.5 billion off mineral exports earnings in the first three months of the year, according to the Australian Bureau of Resource and Agricultural Economics(ABARE)
Read MoreWestfield Group's huge capital raising from shareholders is a big, big sign to investors that the smartest players in retailing property think the years of easy and cheap money are coming to an end.
Read MoreDon't be surprised if there are some well-timed upgrades for Qantas about to emerge.
Read MoreShares in small Melbourne-based consumer entertainment and whitegoods retailer, Clive Peeters, took another pounding yesterday as investors continued to fret about its botched move into Sydney.
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