Daily FNArena News

IOOF’s planned merger with SFG Australia is expected to provide both scale and diversity, raising the wealth manager’s profile substantially.

A pause in the relentless slide in the spot uranium price has proven merely a one week affair, as further excess US government inventories are set to be offloaded onto the market.

Nickel pricing strength is growing, bulks are feeling the supply glut and gold is holding a range.

A wrap of the day’s activity on the Australian stock market.

The Australian stock market has recently seen a spate of quarterly corporate updates and brokers provide their summaries of how things are shaping up ahead in 2014.

Brokers welcomed Flexigroup’s update on strategy and new products but remain cautious about the costs involved.

Nick Linton-Ffrost of Fifth Wave suggests the risk for the Australian market remains to the downside in the coming week.

Weekly update on recommendation, target price, and earnings forecast changes.

This week’s Tweets on Twitter by Your Editor.

Kathleen Brooks of FOREX.com addresses the perplexing issue of current US stock market optimism and bond market pessimism.