Daily FNArena News - FYI

Reporting season heats up this week, with BHP, Qantas and IAG releasing results; to name just a few.

There’s no point in dreamin’. California is broke, the budget is frozen, and the Governator must be wondering whether he’ll be back…for another term.

Weekly musings by your editor. It’s the time of many new beginnings: a correction for commodities, a global economic slowdown, falling interest rates and… prospects for better times ahead?

The US dollar has shocked the world with a dramatic bounce. Could China have something to do with it?

As reporting season begins to speed up, where will company profits take us post RBA economic policy statement?

TD Waterhouse sees a flood of rate cuts in both New Zealand and Australia in the year ahead.

Weekly musings from your editor. Improving fundamentals. Banks and price targets. And one special mentioning. Who said bear markets are boring?

Australia, the US, Europe and UK all make rate decisions this week. Australia awaits the monthly employment data.

Inflation rose to a 16-year high in July in Europe, and unemployment increased for the first time in three years.

Weekly musings by your editor. Why do we so often forget to pay attention to the wider context?