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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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Economics Wrap: A matter of degrees

06 Jun 2022 - A rate rise is guaranteed when the Reserve Bank meets tomorrow and, as was the case in the run-up to the May meeting, the speculation is about the size of the increas…

Commodities Corner: Iron ore comes back to life

06 Jun 2022 - Iron ore prices returned to prominence in the minds of investors with a solid rise on the re-opening of Shanghai and moves by the Chinese government to detail a serie…

Diary: Hawks in the ascendancy

06 Jun 2022 - Another week, oil prices, interest rates in Australia, Europe and India, Chinese trade and inflation data and US consumer price inflation for May and yet more specula…

Retailers at the crossroads

06 Jun 2022 - The impression among many investors is that retailers will be the victims of the toughening of monetary policy by the Fed and possibly in other countries where centra…

Monday Market Minutes: Hurricane season

06 Jun 2022 - “Mixed’ was the nice way of describing the state of share markets on Friday – and much of the week. “Slightly confused” would be more accurate as a plethora of factor…

S&P Global gives itself a downgrade

06 Jun 2022 - You’d never believe it would you? One of the world’s leading financial ratings groups S&P Global has been forced to withdraw its 2022 guidance and outlook because it …

The ongoing evolution of two venerable dinosaurs

6 Jun 2022 - No fears from America’s two biggest car makers, GM and Ford, about rising costs for key green metals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, not to mention copper or aluminiu…

OPEC+ eases price pressures with production bump

03 Jun 2022 - OPEC and its allies on Thursday agreed to accelerate oil production in July and August, as Saudi Arabia bowed to US pressure to cool a crude price rally that has thre…

Goldmans report puts fear of God into metals stocks

02 Jun 2022 - Thanks in part to a negative report from Goldman Sachs shares in lithium miners in Australia lost a lot of ground yesterday.

More rationalisation in global gold sector

02 Jun 2022 - The second multibillion-dollar takeover in the gold industry in a year will see South African miner Gold Fields buy Canada’s Yamana Gold in an all-share deal worth $U…

Woodside-BHPP marriage comes with hefty dowry

01 Jun 2022 - Woodside Energy says it has completed its merger with BHP’s oil and gas portfolio and new Woodside shares will start trading this week.

May 2022 markets & commodities review

01 Jun 2022 - The ASX 200 lost 3% in May, including Tuesday’s 1% drop and yet Wall Street’s major market measures saw much smaller losses, even though it and its nervy traders were…

Surge in value of imports to limit 1Q22 GDP growth

01 Jun 2022 - Today’s March quarter national accounts and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data will show a slowing in the pace of growth from the three months to December, principally…

Further contraction finally forces Beijing's hand

01 Jun 2022 - China’s economy again contracted in May, with manufacturing and services reports also showing activity remained in a contractionary phase, though the slump was not as…

Mallina's gold adding plenty of green to De Grey

01 Jun 2022 - De Grey Mining’s emerging Mallina gold complex in the WA Pilbara, just southeast of Port Hedland, has just seen another significant upgrade in its indicated and infer…

Oz housing market stays cool, but less cold

01 Jun 2022 - The slide in home building approvals slowed in April following the steep swings over the first three months of the year.

AGL non-split may be catalyst for greater change

31 May 2022 - As a result of the abandonment of its split proposal and another review of its business, AGL Energy may end up closing its coal fired power stations and accelerating …

Shell project takes ALP to the crux of the matter

31 May 2022 - Shell has provided an early test – perhaps headache is more the word – for the new ALP federal government, along with the expanded greens and independents who want fa…

Economics wrap: Hey, big spender!

30 May 2022 - Ahead of the release of the March quarter economic growth figures this week, data Friday confirmed that household consumption remained solid in April, even though inf…

Diary: Rolling, rolling, rolling

30 May 2022 - Another month ends, a new month starts which means another test for the health of the US economy and investor confidence with May jobs data released Friday.

Commodities corner: Oil the driving force

30 May 2022 - Oil continues to be at the forefront of commodity market activity as the northern hemisphere heads into summer and the peak time for petrol.

Monday market minutes: Baby steps

30 May 2022 - A quiet Monday ahead for the local, Asian and European markets, with America closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

China braces for impact of more dire economic data

30 May 2022 - Get ready for more gloomy news next week on the health of the Chinese economy with the usual start-of-month surveys of manufacturing and service sector activity likel…

Wall Street picking up what the Fed is throwing down

30 May 2022 - Wall Street has fallen in behind the US Federal Reserve’s hawkish approach to bashing inflation lower with a series of 0.50% rate rises.

EV charge shows no sign of powering down

30 May 2022 - Despite the stockmarket volatility and growing investor fears of a slowdown in economic activity – and even recession – the electric vehicles / green metals boom show…