Daily FNArena News - Australia

A snapshot of economist responses to yesterday’s and today’s quarterly construction work and capex data.

With Advanced Bionics making a global recall of its cochlear implant product Cochlear is a likely beneficiary, to the extent two brokers have upgraded to Buy ratings on the stock.

The NBN decision is moving closer and Telstra is stubbornly maintaining its dividend quantum which not all brokers agree with. What can happen?

Automotive Holdings offered a solid trading update at its AGM last week and brokers see value on offer in the stock.

Leading stockbrokers have seen an uptick in pathology volumes as enough to justify upgrades for the stock.

Triton Gold has a solid exploration and drilling program lined up for 2011 and DJ Carmichael rates the junior explorer as a Speculative Buy.

Seeing is believing, and analysts have suddenly become confident Oil Search can accommodate not just two LNG trains in PNG, but three or even four.

The federal election and uncertainty over the proposed Resources Tax were blamed for a below expectations 1Q result for WA Newspapers.

With the CBA quarterly update now in following the other three majors’ full-year results previously, we can draw final conclusions on this quarter’s sector results.

Suncorp-Metway’s first quarter trading update has failed to excite the market and broker opinions on the stock remain mixed.