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Glenn Dyer

Glenn Dyer has been a finance journalist and TV producer for more than 40 years. He has worked at Maxwell Newton Publications, Queensland Newspapers, AAP, The Australian Financial Review, The Nine Network and Crikey.

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Trying to join the dots on the Fed's mixed messaging

03 Dec 2022 - Amid all the hype and hyperbole in the wake of this week's speech from Fed chair Jay Powell, there is one more obstacle for the bulls to hurdle before they can bellow…

NSW's East Lachlan region putting itself on the map

03 Dec 2022 - Quietly it’s become one of the hottest addresses in Australian mining for large, low-grade gold, copper and, occasionally, molybdenum.

China weakness means flat iron ore profile for Rio

03 Dec 2022 - Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) this week provided perhaps the best and earliest view of how it sees the Chinese economy travelling next year – no real improvement, as it set its…

Plenty of food For thought ahead of RBA meeting

02 Dec 2022 - What, then, will the Reserve Bank make of Thursday’s data drops ahead of its monetary policy decision next Tuesday?

Cochlear hears from the ACCC on Oticon bid

02 Dec 2022 - Competition regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has raised what it calls “significant preliminary competition concerns” with Cochlear’…

Domino's chasing bigger slice of German market

02 Dec 2022 - Domino's Pizza (ASX:DMP) is raising $165 million to take full control of its German joint venture operations from a UK related company.

Powell the Dove gives markets a shove

02 Dec 2022 - Markets in Asia kicked sharply higher on Thursday after Fed chair Jay Powell appeared to signal what they have been calling for months – a pivot to a slower pace of m…

CPI re-weighting helps take the pressure down

01 Dec 2022 - Inflation seemed to moderate slowly in October while new building approvals slid sharply for the same month, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistic…

Market taken in by Temple & Webster turnaround

01 Dec 2022 - Investors surprised yesterday by lapping up what was a mixed trading update from online furniture and lifestyle retailer Temple & Webster (ASX:TPW), sending the share…

AUSTRAC not quite done with Star just yet

01 Dec 2022 - Investors in struggling casino operator Star Entertainment (ASX:SGR) did their best to ignore the news yesterday that the company is being sued in the Federal Court b…

Rio spending big to cut out the carbs

01 Dec 2022 - Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) will spend upwards of $A900 million expanding existing plans for solar farms and battery storages to cut carbon emissions from its iron ore mining…

Apple eyeing China flashpoint with added interest

30 Nov 2022 - One company that is extremely interested in how the current situation in China plays out is Apple, with the fate of its sales in its most profitable quarter (the Dece…

Collins Foods not so fast for the moment

30 Nov 2022 - The boom in fast food sales has faded as the lockdowns have vanished – weak sales data from the likes of Domino's Pizza and Retail Food Group have suggested the fall …

Impeccable bill of health for Fisher & Paykel

30 Nov 2022 - Shares in Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (ASX:FPH) leapt 14% yesterday after the company produced a forecast for a second half improvement on what was a solid first six…

Operational snags drag on Woodside

30 Nov 2022 - Woodside Energy (ASX:WPL) shares were weaker on Tuesday after the company released lower-than-expected production guidance for 2023, thanks to delays at large new oil…

Bank of Queensland tells top banana to split

29 Nov 2022 - The Board of Bank of Queensland (ASX:BOQ) is looking for a new CEO after removing incumbent George Frazis from the position with immediate effect.

Little beauty left in BWX imbroglio

29 Nov 2022 - Melbourne-based beauty products group BWX (ASX:BWX) has laboured mightily but once again failed to live up to its own promises to produce audited accounts by the end …

Sales drop a win-lose situation for retailers

29 Nov 2022 - Just what the Reserve Bank wants to see – the first fall in retail sales this year, according to the monthly data for October.

Brambles does a spot of de-risking in China

29 Nov 2022 - Global logistics giant Brambles (ASX:BXB) has moved to slash its exposure to the huge Chinese economy by agreeing to sell its CHEP China business to an arm of Loscam …

Commodities corner: Oil coming off the boil

28 Nov 2022 - Commodity markets ended yet another week (holiday shortened with light volumes, mind you) with the mysteries of the oil market dominating.

Diary: Heads in the clouds, heads in the sand

28 Nov 2022 - There’s more offshore for markets to fret over in the coming week besides the busy lead up to next week’s Reserve Bank board meeting and third quarter GDP figures.

Monday market minutes: Home stretch

28 Nov 2022 - A month to go for the year and the bottom line for investment markets is that nothing much has changed – short term risks remain high and that could see share markets…

Buffett, Berkshire still making all the right moves

26 Nov 2022 - Warren Buffet has again surprised markets with an unexpected play in what is becoming a year of shocks from the world’s most closely-followed investor.

China outlines support plan for property sector

26 Nov 2022 - Billions of dollars in loans – all directed and overseen by the government – have started flowing to China’s embattled property sector just as the country’s latest Co…

Central bank buying props up gold price

26 Nov 2022 - It’s gold’s dirty secret that the market and most of its players won’t acknowledge – gold prices have been supported for most of 2022 by the speculative buying of a g…