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Investors are getting excited again about economic prospects for China but Standard Chartered economists warn it is yet way too early.

Job advertisements in Australia fell for the ninth consecutive month and according to ANZ Bank this implies rising unemployment in coming months.

Weekly musings from your editor. Are equities cheap? Plus: which companies are staring at two years of declining profits?

Macquarie will survive because it is a bank. Suncorp may not survive if it remains one.

It would appear the RBA is considering a pause in its aggressive interest rate cutting policy.

Qantas management has retained full year earnings guidance but stockbrokers have their doubts.

There are icebergs ahead but the Big Australian is no Titanic.

CSR may turn out a loser, instead of a beneficiary, from the Rudd Government’s plan to insulate homes.

New surveys fuel hope China’s economic downturn might have bottomed.

The capital raising was expected but does it really leave Westfield in an enviable position?