Daily FNArena News

Building products, aluminium and glass are all benefiting to various extents from a resurgence in housing construction and this suits CSR perfectly.

Conservative investors have stepped up their share market investments while risk-tolerant investors have backed off into 2014. ETF sponsors have launched more products to suit the conservative approach for ease of portfolio management.

Demand for mineral sands improves, worst not yet over for copper, Grasberg’s copper future and the slippery slope for coal prices.

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

FNArena’s Treasure Chest reports on money making ideas from stockbrokers and other experts. CLSA disputes the competition argument with regard to Tabcorp and instead sees a valuable entry point into a stock set to increase its earnings and dividend yield.

The Chartist reports a technical recovery is afoot for Alumina with plenty of upside available.

Several brokers have become substantially more positive on Alumina, expecting 2014 may be a watershed.

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

WesTrac owner Seven Group is hoping to diversify into gas production through an opportunistic offer to a stricken Nexus Energy. Brokers are not entirely sold on the idea.

2014 is shaping up as the year that the world starts moving away from very low interest rates so the importance of supply and demand should re-emerge for commodities.