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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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Housing data won't sway the RBA

05 Jul 2022 - Good news of a sort for the building industry on Monday with approvals for new dwellings rising in May because of a surge in greenlights for new apartments, home unit…

Another casualty as crypto funk deepens

05 Jul 2022 - The crisis in crypto deepened again on Monday when another lender halted withdrawals and trading.

Bizarre love triangle afoot in Aussie gold space

05 Jul 2022 - Marriage, WA gold mining style, was on display on the ASX yesterday with two weak members of the herd targeted by an aggressive smaller predator in what could end up …

Challenges abound for local resource sector

05 Jul 2022 - Rain, floods, Covid, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, supply chain obstacles, inflation and rising costs have eaten into the bullish estimates for Australia’s exports…

Reports of lithium's demise greatly exaggerated

05 Jul 2022 - The Australian lithium boom is alive and well.

Earnings Round-Up: In short - energy good, tech bad

04 Jul 2022 - Three reports in the US on Friday and the weekend tell us a lot about what America’s corporate scene looks like approaching the June quarter earnings season amid grow…

Commodities Corner: Copper pounding

04 Jul 2022 - Copper took centre stage among commodities last week with a sharp fall which capped off a miserable three months.

Diary: The rate rise train rolls on

04 Jul 2022 - While the looming rate rise hogs the local spotlight, the important US jobs figures on Friday and other start of month data releases will dominate thinking globally.

Monday Market Minutes: Falling knives

04 Jul 2022 - No guide from the American markets today and tonight because of the Independence Day long weekend, meaning no lead for worried investors heading into Tuesday’s tradin…

As Tesla flounders, a new star emerges

04 Jul 2022 - Tesla has started cost-cutting ahead of its June 30 end of second quarter balance date – a sure sign the Elon Musk run company sees a set of rotten figures emerging f…

EU keen to drive ICE vehicles off the road

04 Jul 2022 - EU countries this week okayed proposed laws to combat climate change including one requiring new cars sold in the EU to emit zero CO2 (carbon dioxide) from 2035.

FY2022: The year of all pain, no gain

04 Jul 2022 - Sometimes, with markets in the red, prices weak and weakening, it’s hard not to feel alone and think that the worst is happening wherever you might be invested. On th…

Crypto carnage continues

01 Jul 2022 - Bitcoin dropped 6.1% to $US18,866.77 late on Thursday in a new round of weakness.

The sleeping panda slowly awakens

01 Jul 2022 - Activity in China’s huge factory and services sectors in June grew for the first time in four months as the easing of Covid lockdowns in Shanghai, Beijing and other c…

More disruption in the cryptoverse

30 Jun 2022 - Disruption continues in the alternate finance worlds - hot on the heels of Volt, one of the remaining Australian neobanks, throwing in the towel comes more confidence…

Back into the volt as third neobank closes shop

30 Jun 2022 - A third Australian neobank has been forced to close, effectively ending the idea of new competition for the existing big four banks and their smaller regional rivals …

Retail good news might be bad news for rates

30 Jun 2022 - So what will the Reserve Bank make of the news that retail sales rose 0.9% in May to yet another monthly record?

BWX (ASX:BWX) problems more than skin deep

29 Jun 2022 - Shares in BWX plunged yesterday after they came out of a trading halt requested last Friday as the company revealed its financial position had all but collapsed.

The fishing expedition bid that Tassal (ASX:TGR) rejected

29 Jun 2022 - The board of Tasmanian-based salmon farming company Tassal Group has rejected a bid worth $1 billion because they think the offer is not in the best interests of shar…

No lithium jitters for Albemarle

29 Jun 2022 - In another rejection of Goldman Sachs’ gloomy forecast that lithium prices will weaken as oversupply grows in coming years, US major Albemarle Corp wants to build a h…

Caution the name of the game for US banks

28 Jun 2022 - Not the capital return bonanza from America’s biggest banks that many analysts had expected after they passed the US Federal Reserve’s 2022 stress tests last week.

Beijing looks set to extend NEV subsidies

27 Jun 2022 - Rumours of the Chinese government extending its temporarily-holstered subsidies for new sales of NEVs (New Electric Vehicles) have been rife since it revealed plans i…

Fed clears the way for massive US bank payouts

27 Jun 2022 - Stand by for billions of dollars in share buybacks and higher dividends for 2023 from America’s biggest banks early Tuesday morning Sydney time after they survived th…

Commodities Corner: When doves cry

27 Jun 2022 - Weakness in commodities for a second week in a row, though oil steadied Friday.

Diary: Time to rule a line and turn a page

27 Jun 2022 - In Australia, this Thursday – June 30 – means the biggest week of the year for accountants, auditors, chief financial officers and their minions, taxpayers generally,…