Daily FNArena News - Australia

GS analysts don’t think RSPT concessions will boost mining stocks, while Citi calculates earnings risks and others line up their favourites.

RBS evaluates stocks impacted by changing dividend rules while JP Morgan weighs up the RSPT against the PRRT and Morgan Stanley warns of lower earnings for retail banking.

The latest plasma market data in the US suggest some IVIG volume growth but brokers have offered mixed reactions.

Management of The Reject Shop has confirmed earnings guidance and brokers are encouraged by expansion plans.

Citi assesses the current state of Australia’s LNG prospects while Deutsche Bank revisits pathology stocks and RBS downgrades recruitment stocks.

ASIC reports Fairfax is the most shorted stock in the index, with daylight second. Why?

The latest Westpac-ACCI Survey of Industrial Trends has delivered some mixed data, with price pressures rising but growth still above trend.

Merrill Lynch believes current earnings expectations are deluded, Macquarie sees positive returns, while Deutsche Bank has upgraded ANZ to Buy.

Morgan Stanley has initiated coverage on iiNet with an Overweight rating, supported by earnings growth assumptions in coming years that are above market consensus.

Twenty-first century metallurgical advances have liberated the value of an extensive gold-copper resource at Ravensthorpe for junior miner Tectonic Resources.