Daily FNArena News

Fairfax has lost its CEO but brokers see the level of dividend payouts and debt levels as the most important issues facing the company at present.

If the latest job ads data are correct unemployment is set to jump in Australia in the months ahead.

Merrill Lynch has slashed its coal price expectations in coming years and this flows through to significant cuts to its earnings estimates for Wesfarmers.

Weekly musings from your editor. The greatest wisdom on earth plus the most bearish assessment thus far. (Both not mine).

Next week will see a steady stream of economic data that is likely to lend insight into this week’s big releases and help clarify the road map for 2009.

Barclays Capital has been bullish on metals prices, but now it expect prices to weaken further into the early part of 2009.

In the depths of one of the Northern Hemisphere’s bleakest financial winters, State Street sees signs of an early thaw.

Danske Bank suggests the cuts to official interest rates overnight by the BoE and the ECB have implications for their respective currencies, with the British Pound the likely winner longer-term.

The US government has spent that much on economic stimulus but may soon have to borrow money from itself.

Australian building approval numbers were below consensus for the fourth month in a row leading to predictions of a further 0.75% rate cut early next year.