Consumer Staples

Myer/DJs merger numbers not shaping up, Oz business confidence and credit, Oz household consumption, Oil Search and Taza, and the euro’s robust rally.

Metcash has revealed its eagerly-awaited strategy to put the business on a better footing and return to growth.

Metcash continues to face tough conditions and brokers believe some hard decisions must be made.

Travel stocks, discretionary retailers and housing-related retailing are all looking much more positive but brokers are still being selective.

Freedom Foods is a minnow that is growing rapidly. Morgans looks at the potential for the stock.

Nick Linton-Ffrost of Fifth Wave suggests a short-term trading idea in Woolworths.

The major supermarkets have called a truce on expanding fuel discounting and brokers take a look at what it may mean for the competition.

Brokers welcomed a new strategic plan for grocery distributor Metcash but await the detail, with varying degrees of confidence.

Brokers are somewhat divided over whether the pricing pressures Goodman Fielder is sustaining will hang around for the medium term.

A weak quarter for Coles and a high PE ratio afforded by the market have many analysts steering clear of an investment in Wesfarmers.