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Chinese consumers are in essence facing the same battle as consumers elsewhere, new data and insights show.

Brokers are mixed in their assessment of December’s housing finance data, but one thing seems certain, house prices must fall.

Australian unemployment numbers revealed employers are shedding full time jobs. Expect the RBA to continue cutting rates.

While only modestly better than expected, uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia’s quarterly production report beat broker expectations.

Index rebalancing has temporarily distorted the picture, but copper prices should have no other way to go but down.

Analysts at Deutsche Bank expect the uranium spot price to strengthen during this quarter, which bodes well for both Paladin and ERA.

Alcoa’s disappointing quarterly earnings result has brokers worried about the downside earnings risk for Australian listed Alumina Ltd.

We take a look at the latest trading ideas the technical FX team at CIBC World Markets has come up with.

The price of uranium plumbed highs and lows in 2008 and while the outlook for 2009 is for stable prices, there are no safe bets in this market.

Recent US dollar strength is expected to fade and with scope for inflationary pressures to emerge later this year analysts see gold as a relatively good performer among commodities.