Daily FNArena News

…the warning signals are once again sounding among America’s investment and commercial banks.

ANZ Bank suggests profit taking may hit commodity markets in coming sessions, with lower oil prices to push gold and base metal prices lower in sympathy.

Are Qantas’ damage control reactions a good or bad thing for the share price?

Weekly musings from your editor. Not. It’s a conspiracy, surely it must be. Your editor will try again tomorrow.

ANZ is expecting inflation to hit 5% in Australia, the Aussie to pass through US dollar parity, and the RBA to increase the cash rate not once, but twice, in 2008.

Fund manager Perpetual has again lowered earnings guidance and brokers see few catalysts for the share price shorter-term given uncertain markets and cost issues in the group.

The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Economic Activity continues to suggest dire times lay ahead.

Citi weighs in on the argument as to whether Coca-Cola Amatil is about to make a big acquisition.

According to Merrill Lynch the 3Q update from Goodman Group was better than the market was expecting, which supports the generally positive view most brokers have on the stock.

A new CEO at Insurance Australia Group leads analysts to predict a re-basing of earnings and cuts to what are seen as unsustainably high dividends.