Base Metals and Minerals

In a QE3 vacuum, Australia’s trade deficit and a weak Spanish bond auction were cause for global concern last night. Dow down 124. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with updates on Chinese commodity markets, why nickel may be cheap, upside for PGMs, met coal and broker updates.

Investment U’s Ryan Fitzwater offers an alternative indicator to gauge economic health and the outlook for risk appetite.

Wall Street has come to accept that QE3 is dead in the water following last night’s release of the Fed minutes. Dow down 64. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

FNArena’s weekly update on short positions in the Australian share market.

The technical analysts at Barclays Capital notes while April tends to be a good month for equity and energy markets, results are more mixed for forex and fixed interest markets.

Chinese and US manufacturing data spurred on a positive opening to the June quarter. Dow up 52. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

FOREX.com has offered its expectations for the June quarter, seeing a tougher outlook for equity prices but a solid outlook for commodities.

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

The Dow was down 94 points early on week data and a weak oil price but recovered to close up 19. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)