Daily FNArena News - FYI

The US is inundated with a deluge of data and the various impacts are unguessable, while Australia sees more AGMs and a key Q3 capex read.

ANZ has taken the knife to its AUD forecasts, with a rate in the 50s on the cards for most of 2009.

According to State Street Global Markets the US Federal Reserve is looking to quantitative easing to stimulate the US economy.

The ASX will next month list ETF-type investments on platinum, palladium and silver to join the existing gold contract.

Acording to Danske Bank the recent rapid rise in risk aversion has finished and this means an improved outlook for the US Dollar and the euro against the yen and Swiss franc.

It was only the first step but the world’s most powerful economies were able to agree that it is time to recognise the financial market as a global enterprise.

Weekly musings by your editor. Do Australian (banking) shares represent value? A mathematical insight into the matter.

A busy week of bad news is expected, but can it really do that much more harm?

China used the weekend meeting of G20 finance ministers to announce it was going to throw US$600bn at its slowing economy.

Weekly musings from your editor. It’s the eve of an historic US election but what does it mean for the share market?