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2013 Year In Review & US Fed Meeting Preview
Peter Esho details the key market events for the week starting 16 December 2013.
Read MoreLocal Market Still Sliding
It wasn’t just an Australian sell-off on the market yesterday, although it felt like it in the afternoon, raising the question about the standing of our market in the eyes of offshore investors, especially in the US.
Read MoreVirgin Raises Its Money, No Help For Qantas
Well, bad luck Qantas (QAN), the failure of the $350 million issue by Virgin Australia (VAH) to get strong support from small shareholders has all but condemned Qantas to look for ways of raising new capital it needs other than tapping its huge base of small shareholders.
Read MoreA Reshaped Deal Coming From Westfield?
Will the Lowy family and its Westfield Group blink and be forced the change the terms of its proposed separation?
Read MoreNew Zealand To Boom In 2014
The New Zealand economy is going to boom in 2014 and into 2015 thanks to a combination of a 40-year high for the country’s terms of trade and the spreading building boom in Christchurch, Auckland and now Wellington.
Read MoreHolden News Fails To Dent Listed Car Dealers
A mixed initial reaction from investors to the Holden closure news yesterday with one listed dealer’s shares falling and the other’s rising.
Read MoreOZ Minerals Miserable 2013 Continues
What a rotten Christmas present for those long suffering shareholders in OZ Minerals (OZL), which is now rivaling Newcrest Mining (NCM) as the bad news stock for mining investors for 2013.
Read MoreCPA Battle Heats Up As Dexus Lobs New Bid
A day after issuing a small earnings upgrade, Dexus (DXS) has counter-attacked in the battle for control of the Commonwealth Property Office Fund (CPA) with an offer higher than the first and above that from rival GPT.
Read MoreBHP Bullish On US Shale Gas & Oil
BHP Billiton (BHP) remains a believer in its huge but weakly performing US shale gas and oil business and intends keeping the assets and growing them for the domestic American market, not for exports such as LNG.
Read MoreInvestors Now In The Housing Driving Seat
Are we seeing the early days of a bubble in the making in the housing sector as investors, especially self-managed super funds, continue to pile in?
Read MoreSeven Group Bets More On Chinese Coal
Kerry Stokes’ Mining services company WesTrac is a believer in the coal industry, especially in China, judging by yesterday’s announcement of a significant expansion in China.
Read MoreWoodside Confident About 2014
Good news for 2013 and good news for 2014 from Woodside Petroleum (WPL) yesterday at an investor day update.
Read MoreGazal As Comfortable In Bisley As In Calvin Klein
The rag trade is renowned as a tough place to make a dollar, but Gazal Corporation Limited (GZL) is doing OK.
Read MoreBrambles Demerger Ready For Listing
The demerger of Recall from Brambles (BXB) is almost complete – and shareholders in Brambles also received a small bit of good news as well yesterday.
Read MoreMetcash Reveals A Hint Of Its Restructure
A week ago, Metcash (MTS) was telling the market that while it was close to finishing a wide ranging review of the company, investors would be briefed on the proposed changes at an update day in March of next year.
Read MoreTPG Moves To Build Its Fibre Telco Business
TPG Telecom (TPM) continues to expand, yesterday announcing that it had bought AAPT, a subsidiary of Telecom NZ (TEL), for $A450 million.
Read MoreChina On Track As Trade Surplus Hits 5-Year High
Good news from the Chinese trade figures for November with not only a solid rise in imports, a huge trade surplus and jump in exports, but a new record for iron ore imports.
Read MoreThe Week Ahead
A quieter week ahead for some, but for Australia, the usual monthly test of the most recent jobs data and China’s latest economic data.
Read MoreWheat Prices Slide As Global Output Grows
Gold and oil went differing ways last week, while wheat prices slumped to a near three month low in something of a surprise. Copper though, rose.
Read MoreQBE Set To Shock
On the face of it, the market should start solidly today after the 25 point gain in the futures market on Saturday morning, our time.
Read MoreLocal Market In The Grip Of December Blues?
Blame Qantas, fears about US tapering, nervy investors, over anxious hedge funds – anything – but the $20 billion plus sell-off in the local market yesterday was a worry.
Read MoreVeda Outshines Dick Smith
Time for Nine Entertainment (NEC) to hit the boards today in its float after the stellar surge by credit reporting group Veda (VED) yesterday and a small gain for retailer Dick Smith (DSH) after Wednesday’s weak start to life as a listed company.
Read MoreQantas Gloom & Doom Startles Investors
Qantas (QAN) has gone the whole hog of job cuts, massive loss forecast, sale options, pay freezes (and a cut for CEO Alan Joyce).
Read MoreGrowth Not Great But Still Bumping Along
Economic growth in the third quarter wasn’t quite as solid as I thought it would be after the run of encouraging data in the past week, and the 0.6% quarter on quarter rise and 2.3% rise in the year to September continues the meandering sub trend performance of the past year.
Read MoreAnother Reshuffle At Westfield
More change in the Westfield Group (WDC) empire of the Lowy family with the present two-company structure remaining, but with a completely reshuffled make-up.
Read MoreDick Smith Gets Away, Nine Priced
No wonder the Nine Entertainment float went at the low end of its price range yesterday ahead of tomorrow’s float.
Read MoreRBA Sits Pat
Yes, the Reserve Bank kept rates on hold, and yes, it’s not certain about the strength of the economy and yes it’s sitting on the sidelines and watching the impact of a series of rate cuts on the domestic economy, which is sort of good news.
Read MoreRio’s Capex Cuts Continue
Rio Tinto (RIO) and Vale of Brazil are the world’s second biggest and third biggest miners by market value – but a year or so ago, Vale was second and Rio was third.
Read MoreData Flow Shows Economy Gathering Strength
Has the economy turned upwards after spending most of the past year meandering along at below trend, meaning interest rate cuts are at an end?
Read MoreSNL More Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Unsung vehicle parts supplier Supply Network Limited (SNL) has rewarded shareholders handsomely in recent years, rising from 30 cents five years ago to a record high of $2 earlier this month.
Read MoreMetcash Posts Moderate Interim Result
Wholesaler/retailer Metcash (MTS), number 3 behind Woolies and Coles, faces more change in the New Year after reporting a moderate quality interim result yesterday and a cut to dividend.
Read MoreRBA To Remain On Hold
There was nothing from the flow of data here or offshore yesterday and last night to force a change of heart from the Reserve Bank’s last board meeting of 2013 which will leave the cash rate steady on 2.5%.
Read MoreCoca Cola Amatil Fills CEO Slot From GrainCorp
Another loss for GrainCorp (GNC) yesterday, with CEO Alison Watkins leaving to take up the vacant CEO’s role at Coca Cola Amatil (CCL), one of the plum jobs of Australian business.
Read MoreImpressions On The RBA Statement
The RBA goes into 2014 with a close eye on jobs, knowing very well that the economic outlook for Australia remains fragile. This statement was always going to sound cautious so it doesn’t come as a complete surprise – but the focus on the slowdown in the mining space cannot be understated. There is the prospect for one more cut in the first quarter of 2014.
Read MoreLocal Market Slips In November
November ended up a curious month for markets – some rose, some eased, some went sideways – and one or two bombed – led by gold.
Read MoreDutch Downgrade Likely Boost To AUD
The world’s most exclusive club – countries with AAA credit ratings, of which Australia is a member – just got smaller with the news that the Netherlands has had its top notch standing cut by Standard & Poor’s.
Read MoreThe Week Ahead
A big, big week for economies here and around the world, as well as for investors large and small. In fact it’s one of the biggest weeks of the year for the amount of information and number of key decisions to be made.
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