Daily FNArena News

Australia’s labour market remains tight, vindicating the RBA’s tightening bias.

ANZ Bank notes the recent spate of mergers and takeovers in the Australian market is positive for the currency as overseas buyers must also buy Australian dollars to complete their acquisitions.

Areva’s deal with Summit Resources has sent the local uranium market into a flurry once more.

Due to persistent technical problems there will be no weekly editorial today.

The latest housing data in Australia suggests investors are returning to the property market, but the numbers shouldn’t pressure the RBA to lift rates.

For the first time since Lehman Bros started keeping records, foreign currency denominated bond issues will exceed US dollar issues.

Clean energy fund Viridis has increased its potential thanks to global banks warming to the renewable energy market.

Macquarie Communications has expanded in the UK market via the purchase of National Wireless Grid, but the deal appears fully priced.

Macquarie Bank has plans to build its own online retail financial service provider and go head to head with E*trade Australia and CommSec, according to our source.

The latest ANZ survey into job ads confirms Australia’s employers are still fiercely looking for extra labour with both newspapers and the internet showing solid growth figures for February.