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Money-making share strategies for 2011Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Share investors face excellent opportunities to make money in 2011, with wide expectations for the market to make solid gains after 12 months in the doldrums. ...
Building approvals up 9.3% in October, Shares lower on European worries: Economy Roundup
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Building approvals jumped by a seasonally adjusted 9.3% during October, breaking six consecutive months of declines, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...
Fairfax Media adopts new structure, Qantas puts A380s back in the air: Economy Roundup
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Media giant Fairfax will create a new organisational structure that will see the company split into nine operating businesses, with a new chief executive to be appointed to oversee the company's metro publishing and online sectors. ...
Resources executive wins Business Woman of the Year award
Friday, 12 November 2010
Denise Goldworthy, a mining executive who rose from a 17-year-old trainee metallurgist to become the head of Rio Tinto's Dampier Salt business has won the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Award for drastically improving safety standards and boosting sales ...
Packer, Murdoch accept Ten Network board positions, Shares lower: Economy Roundup
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Ten Network has confirmed James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have accepted an offer to join the company's board in mid-December, while executive chairman Nick Falloon has also confirmed he will step down. ...
Time to come clean on just how uncommercial the NBN is: Kohler
Thursday, 07 October 2010
The government needs to pluck up its courage and confess the extent to which the national broadband network is uncommercial – that is, the amount of subsidy embedded in it. ...
David Jones delivers solid fourth-quarter sales result. Housing affordability slides: Economy Roundup
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Department store giant David Jones has delivered an uncharacteristically upbeat profit forecast after beating analysts' expectations by posting a 1.7% increase in fourth-quarter like-for-like sales. ...
Sigma sells drugs division to Aspen for $900 million, Shares slip: Economy Roundup
Monday, 16 August 2010
Sigma Pharmaceuticals has finally agreed to sell the drugs division of its business to South African Aspen Pharmacare for $900 million, with the company's shares jumping 8% to 54c this morning. ...
THE BIG PICTURE: Economy's new speed limit
Monday, 16 August 2010
Is there a new speed limit for the economy? In the recent Statement on Monetary Policy, the Reserve Bank broadly left unchanged both its economic growth and inflation forecasts for the period out to 2012. On current figuring the Reserve Bank expects the economy ...
Cash contributions to self-managed super funds drop 22%
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Cash contributions to self-managed super funds dropped by a massive 22% during 2009-10 due to market volatility, and the outlook for the rest of the year isn't much better as SMEs suffer, a new survey from SMSF manager Multiport has found. ...
Retail sales up 0.2% in June, Building approvals down again: Economy Roundup
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Retail turnover increased by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in June, following a 0.2% increase in May and a 0.6% rise in April, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...
Allied Brands shares down 24% after another profit downgrade: Economy Roundup
Friday, 23 July 2010
Franchise operator Allied Brands has lowered its profit guidance for the second time in six weeks due to writedowns in the Cookie Man and Villa & Hut businesses. ...
ELECTION 2010: Calls for Gillard to back up sustainable population call with policies
Thursday, 22 July 2010
With the official election campaigning suspended today to allow Prime Minster Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to attend the funeral of soldier Private Nathan Bewes in Murwillumbah, the focus has turned to Gillard and her call for a rethink on ...
Confusion continues for small business as AIG warns to monitor Fair Work tribunal decisions
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Businesses must continue monitoring Fair Work tribunal decisions in order to avoid inadvertently breaking regulations which could see them slammed with huge fines, a new Australian Industry Group report reveals. ...
Construction activity contracts during June, Shares move lower: Economy Roundup
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
Activity in the construction industry fell during June for the first time in four months, due a decline in housing construction and new orders, the results of a new survey reveals. ...
Perpetual chief David Deverall steps down, Shares slide: Economy roundup
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
David Deverall has stepped down as managing director of Perpetual, saying the decision to resign has been a difficult one. ...
Future Fund chairman says resources tax should be scrapped: Economy Roundup
Friday, 04 June 2010
Future Fund chairman David Murray says the resource super profits tax should be overhauled or completely scrapped. ...
Woolworths shocks market by lowering sales guidance: Economy Roundup
Friday, 30 April 2010
Woolworths has announced a 4.7% improvement in third quarter sales, but has surprised the market by lowering its full year sales forecast due to inflationary pressures. Year to date sales growth is at 5.3%, within previous guidance, but the company warned that ...
CSR wins appeal to demerger, BHP Billiton staff told to maintain integrity: Economy Roundup
Friday, 23 April 2010
CSR has won an appeal in the Federal Court in order to hold a shareholder meeting on the proposed demerger of the company's sugar division from its building products sector. ...
THE WEEK AHEAD: Investors ride the banking wave
Monday, 19 April 2010
Just over a year ago many analysts and investors were proclaiming the end of the world with global sharemarkets being pummelled by the US financial crisis. What a difference a year can make – or 15 months to be precise. Latest data shows that the value of banking ...
