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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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Industrials Intel: JHX, CSL, ANN

15 Feb 2023 - A bit of a mixed bag from three of our big industrial companies on Tuesday, with James Hardie (ASX:JHX) and Ansell (ASX:ANN) both taking an earnings hit late last yea…

NAB survey says, "unexpected confidence boost"

15 Feb 2023 - Now here’s something of a surprise – the National Australia Bank’s February business survey says business conditions ended a three-month slide with a small pick-up, w…

Bottom Line Buzz: BRG, TPW, SWM

15 Feb 2023 - The local reporting season for the December period is picking up steam – here are the important bits from the announcements by Breville Group (ASX:BRG), Temple & Webs…

Market Morsels: IAG, FBU, AZJ

14 Feb 2023 - The continued wild weather in New Zealand is playing havoc with companies on both sides of the Tasman, with updates from IAG (ASX:IAG) and Fletcher Building ((ASX:FBU…

Policy change for Beach to unleash franking

14 Feb 2023 - The Kerry Stokes-dominated Beach Energy (ASX:BPT) has made an important change to dividend policy to allow it to start giving shareholders more of its half a billion …

Payout upped but distant clouds Loom for JB HiFi

14 Feb 2023 - Consumer electronics and whitegoods retailer JB HiFi (ASX:JBH) has lifted dividend by more than 20% for the December half year after confirming solid unaudited sales …

When you wish upon a falling Star

14 Feb 2023 - If you are a dispassionate investor or analyst you’d have been more than a little concerned at the adverse market reaction yesterday to the interim trading update fro…

Earnings round-Up: CBA leads the charge

13 Feb 2023 - The health of the Australian December reporting period will be heavily influenced by the midweek interim earnings release by the local market’s second biggest company…

All eyes on Omaha for the oracular spectacular

13 Feb 2023 - One of the most watched annual events in global investment is about to occur. Berkshire Hathaway is about to report its December quarter and 2022 figures in the next …

Commodities corner: Oh, those Russians

13 Feb 2023 - Oil ended up dominating the end of the week on Friday and will drive prices for some of this week after Russia said it will cut production by 500,000 barrels a day ne…

Diary: Huffing and puffing

13 Feb 2023 - Hello, it’s the US Consumer Price Index here, back again to terrorise markets and investors for a day or two this week. This time the data will be for January and kno…

Monday market minutes: A test of faith

13 Feb 2023 - With America’s January inflation readings set to dominate markets in the week ahead, will investors be forced to abandon the optimism that has seen gains of 6% to 7% …

Coming to terms with disinflation

11 Feb 2023 - Disinflation is a fall in the rate of inflation – a slowdown in the rate of increase of the general price level of goods and services over time (preferably a quarter …

The New York Times: All the black ink that's fit to print

11 Feb 2023 - Make your own decision about the relative seriousness of the problems confronting major media groups Disney and News Corp, then compare them to the enormous success a…

Netflix streaming ahead as its rivals stumble

11 Feb 2023 - Disney threw in the towel this week, leaving Netflix as the winner of the streaming video war. Its rivals including Disney have been left in tatters, bleeding billion…

Moody's comfortable with Newmont-Newcrest deal

10 Feb 2023 - Ratings group Moody’s has given a tick to Newmont’s all paper $A24 billion proposed offer for Newcrest (ASX:NCM).

Rates up, prices down Mirvac hits the wall

10 Feb 2023 - Mirvac (ASX:MGR) ran out of puff in the six months to December as the rising interest rates, falling property prices and investor interest and a weakening in the valu…

AGL shares slump 10% on less than gas result

10 Feb 2023 - AGL slumped to a first-half loss of $1.1 billion and halved its interim dividend as a result.

Lunar New Year keeps Chinese EV market subdued

10 Feb 2023 - As expected China’s January car sales were weaker than forecast thanks to a combination of the earlier timing of the Lunar New Year break and the ending of most purch…

Market Murmurs: BLD, AMC

09 Feb 2023 - Solid enough December half-yearly reports were released on Wednesday by two of our country’s industrial giants – the Kerry Stokes-controlled Boral (ASX:BLD) and packa…

SUN is shining, though weather not so sweet

09 Feb 2023 - Higher premiums, a timely release of $150 million in reserves and improved returns from investments saw Brisbane-based Suncorp’s (ASX:SUN) net profit jump 44% to $560…

From gabfest to Gabon for Fortescue

09 Feb 2023 - Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) has turned a couple of years of talk into a deal to start what looks like a trial iron ore mining operation in Gabon.

Transurban CEO decides to hit the road

08 Feb 2023 - Transurban’s (ASX:TCL) chief executive Andrew Charlton says he will depart the toll road giant this year as the company reported record results for the December half …

Commodities cover weakness elsewhere for Macquarie

08 Feb 2023 - Investors reacted cautiously to Tuesday’s third quarter earnings update (that’s the one the investment bank issues without the actual figures) from Macquarie Group (A…

Barrick content to cheer on Newmont from the sideline

08 Feb 2023 - Little surprise Newmont shares lost more than 4% in value in trading on Monday in New York after its $A24 billion all-paper attempt to swallow Newcrest (ASX:NCM) was …