We have our eye on two major points to begin the week. The first is that the most interesting election in the world this year may be in a communist country.
Australia's largest independent coal company will be created shortly when the final stage of the friendly takeover of Aston Resources by Whitehaven Coal is completed.
By Rudi Filapek-VandyckThe Reserve Bank of Australia today released the Board Minutes that accompanied the decision to stick with the status quo on the official cash rate earlier this month.
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Australian miners and interest rates, US quarterly earnings, Spain's struggles and the IMF's latest economic outlook for the world and major economies will dominate headlines here and offshore in the coming week.
Miners in Australia, earnings in the US, and the pain in Spain will dominate markets in the week ahead, along with concerns about China, weak commodity prices and interest rates.
Burma is entering the era of the Asian world economy.
China has once again shown a capacity to surprise the west just when you don't expect major policy moves to happen.
BrightSource Energy Inc., a California solar-power developer, plans to go public, in spite of an unenthusiastic market for solar companies and an uncertain outlook for renewable-energy firms.
Does Australia have an economy that won't die?
by Peter Switzer, Switzer Super ReportMy view on the stock market this year is more cautiously positive than last year.
Strong gains in global equities just overnight have made the Asian shares shoot up, especially after hard manufacturing data from the United States, and as leading Asian exporters offset signs of mild recession in Europe.
Yukio Edano, Japan’s Economy and Industry Minister said Monday that two nuclear reactors tentatively met government safety standards although completing the improvements might take several years. But, Japan’s Nuclear reactors are in process of paving the way for final approval for their startup soon.
By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 181 points or 1.4% while the S&P gained 1.4% to 1387 and the Nasdaq added 1.3%.
The Rise Of The Machine: Does High Frequency Trading Alter Prices?By David Bicchetti and Nicolas MaystreTrade in commodity derivatives ? such as oil futures ? has grown tremendously over the last few decades.
Consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in 8 months in March, in contrast to the small, but noticeable rise in business confidence in the NAB survey on Tuesday.
The pace of growth in China's passenger vehicles market has slowed after sales growth in March eased.
U.S. stocks bounced back Wednesday after a five-day slide, bolstered by a strong start to the corporate-earnings season and a drop in Spanish and Italian government borrowing rates.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 89 points or 0.7% while the S&P gained 0.7% to 1368 and the Nasdaq added 0.
By Greg PeelBetween the big fiscal stimulus package of late 2006 and late 2011, Beijing incrementally tightened monetary policy in order to head off a bubble-bust scenario ? in the economy in general and in the local property market in particular.
The Rio Tinto subsidiary, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has increased its hoped for level of production of uranium oxide for 2012 to between 3200 and 3700 tonnes.
China swung back to a $US5.35 billion trade surplus in March from February's deficit of $US31.48 billion
Stocks suffered their biggest declines this year, losing ground for the fifth straight session, as worries over rising borrowing costs for European countries weighed on investor sentiment ahead of the start of earnings season.
China's trade balance swung back into positive territory in March as the country's import growth slowed from a 13-month peak and exports grew faster than expected.
By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 213 points or 1.7% while the S&P lost 1.7% to 1358 and the Nasdaq dropped 1.8%.
While the lower than expected jobs figures for March hit US market confidence, a more important influence will be the shape and health of the first quarter earnings reports that kicks off this week, starting tonight with Alcoa.
China's inflation data for March, like the performance of manufacturing surveys the week before, have left us with mixed impressions about the price pressures in the world's second largest economy.
Another big week ahead for global markets with important data releases, on top of reaction to the lower than expected US jobs figures for March.
By Greg PeelThere appears to be no pressure at present on potential sellers of spot uranium to aggressively meet buying interest, and what buying interest there is remains discretionary, industry consultant TradeTech notes.
