According to CommSec the recently completed reporting season in Australia was relatively solid given global conditions but there are still challenges facing investors in coming months.
The latest review of the Perth office market by BIS Shrapnel suggests tough times are coming.
Overnight ISM manufacturing data from the US might be painting a hopeful picture, but not for Australia.
Company profits and inventory data for the December quarter came out today and economists suggest the weaker than expected results mean Australian growth may have been negative in the fourth quarter.
The GFC has baby boomers across the globe facing up to a harsh new reality.
While Woolworths delivered a solid earnings result brokers see a couple of problem areas that suggest the stock’s premium rating may come under question.
Australian inflation is back on the rise, making a near-term rate cut less likely and stagflation a possibility.
Weekly musings by your editor. Let me guess: you thought the world was about to come to an end, didn’t you?
Reporting season has finished, but next week sees a number of companies go ex-dividend, elsewhere the focus returns to economic data releases.
India is moving from exporter to importer of sugar while more of Brazil’s output should go into ethanol production, all of which Barclays sees as supportive for sugar prices.
