Weekly Top Ten News Stories

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Hospital usage and MBS review; insurer recovery; major bank exposures to oil industry; earnings season outlook for building materials; and Bell Potter initiates on Temple & Webster.

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

The Chartist reports there's likely more downside for Macquarie Group shares short term, but the share price should be approaching a beneficial entry point for long term investors.

Uranium prices might be subdued but in the commodity market in general at present, this is a big win.

BHP Billiton is at a crossroads, with brokers bombarded by queries from investors as to where the stock is going.

Another down-draft in commodity prices has signalled further hard going for those companies contracting to the oil & gas and mining sectors.

December quarter production from BHP Billiton was broadly in line with expectations but brokers are increasingly convinced current dividend policy is untenable.

South32 delivered a mixed production report for December with brokers mulling the outlook in view of very subdued commodity prices.

Peter Switzer of the Switzer Super Report looks into the reasons behind the recent oil price crunch.

The past nine months have been brutal for many investment portfolios, but not all stocks are equal.