| | | After stalling during August and September's credit storm, private equity in Australia is experiencing a renaissance, while US PE giants like Blackstone are still weathering the sub-prime storm. |
| | | | The Australian share market is expected to open lower today after a mixed lead from Wall Street. In London, base metals prices all were down. |
| | | | The Australian sharemarket remained in negative territory this morning, with the only bright spot miner Rio Tinto, which rebuffed a takeover proposal last week from fellow miner BHP Billiton. |
| | | | While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, in China rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. |
| | | | The Australian share market is expected to open lower following a weak lead from Wall Street on Friday after investor worries intensified about bank troubles from the US housing crisis. |
| | | | The Australian share market remained in positive territory at noon following last night's takeover bid by miner BHP Billiton for rival Rio Tinto. |
| | | | Like a house of cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. |
| | | | The Australian share market is expected to open trading higher this morning, with anticipated impact on the mining sector after BHP Billiton last night announced it had made a STG120 billion ($A272.05 billion) takeover bid for Rio Tinto. |
| | | | Hunter Hall has released a new environmentally focused global fund that aims to generate "a positive outcome for the wellbeing of people, animals and the environment" by using a highly exclusive range of filters that eliminates countries like Japan ... |
| | | | The Australian share market remained lower at noon, carrying on the morning's trend, which was triggered by steep Wall Street falls and lower base metal prices overnight. |
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