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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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RBA goes slow and steady with the rates

08 Feb 2023 - Sort of normal service again from the Reserve Bank – an increase of 0.25% in the cash rate to 3.35% and a warning of more increases to come.

RBA rate rise risk is slightly to the upside

07 Feb 2023 - Reserve Bank meetings always see a lot of speculation about the cash rate decision and since both the stronger quarterly inflation reading and the solid jobs data in …

Scali numbers lacking that certain polish

07 Feb 2023 - Sydney-based furniture retailer Nick Scali (ASX:NCK) produced a mixed interim report on Monday – one from which some investors and commentators mistakenly construed t…

Sunrise appeal slowly dawning on Woodside

07 Feb 2023 - Woodside Energy (ASX:WDS) has softened its opposition to the Greater Sunrise LNG Project with the announcement yesterday of a dual path viability study to see if gas …

Why Newmont (and probably Barrick) wants Newcrest

07 Feb 2023 - Shares in ASX-listed Newcrest (ASX:NCM) closed more than 9% higher on Monday after the world’s biggest gold miner, Newmont Corporation launched a bid over the weekend…

Monday market minutes: Working things out

06 Feb 2023 - 517,000 new US jobs in January was a shocking way of blowing up all those safe assumptions about the supposed slowing in the pace of US economic growth, a possible pa…

Diary: Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition

06 Feb 2023 - So far as Australian investors are concerned there’s only one issue to deal with this week and that’s the first Reserve Bank meeting of 2023 and an expected rate rise…

Commodities corner: Shifting sands

06 Feb 2023 - So where has the commodity price boom gone, six weeks or so into 2023? The surprisingly good US jobs data for January saw US bond yields leap by 12 points to regain t…

Earnings round-Up: For whom the bell tolls

06 Feb 2023 - The Australian December 31 reporting season accelerates this week with around 10 major companies due to report, led by Suncorp and Transurban.

Twin approach the way forward for Chalice at Julimar

04 Feb 2023 - Chalice Mining (ASX:CHN) has further underlined its growing two-track approach to developing and delineating its massive Julimar palladium, platinum, gold, copper, ni…

Toyota still on top, still stuck in neutral

04 Feb 2023 - General Motors grabbed headlines (and provided a nice boost to renewables) this week with its proposed $US650 million investment and offtake deal for America’s first …

Triple trouble for tech sector from US titans

04 Feb 2023 - Apple, Amazon and Alphabet – a trio of fallen tech giants in 2022 – but this week the big hopes of prolonging the nascent recovery in January by producing 4th quarter…

Housing data a bit all over the place

03 Feb 2023 - The monthly building approvals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics have again underlined its unreliability and lack of consistency with the 18.5% jump in De…

Regular programming resumes for the Fed

03 Feb 2023 - ‘Normal’ service from now on for the world’s most important central bank – the inflation-busting days of 2022 are behind the US Federal Reserve and now it’s more like…

Chinese EV sales hold in face of subsidy cuts

03 Feb 2023 - On the face of it, the January New Energy Vehicle (NEV) sales figures from China were always going to see a slide after most purchase subsidies ended on December 31.

Little obvious substance to Meta rally

03 Feb 2023 - Shares in the black hole known as Meta Platforms starred on Wednesday with a 20% surge after the company produced December quarter figures which were better than expe…

Short-selling sends Adani into panic mode

02 Feb 2023 - Indian corporate giant Adani has called off its $US2.4 billion equity fundraising in a blow to billionaire Gautam Adani after shares tumbled in the wake of a short se…

GM ready to rev up its EV operations

02 Feb 2023 - A big day Tuesday for General Motors and for America’s struggling lithium industry.

Trading Tidbits: TRS, CCP, NUF

02 Feb 2023 - While the overall market continued its strong start to 2023, the ongoing challenges were on full display in Wednesday’s updates from The Retail Shop (ASX:TRS), Credit…

Market rises above it all to post strong January

02 Feb 2023 - The ASX outperformed a lot of bigger markets in January – despite endless stories about the threat of recession, a jobs bust, a wages-prices spiral, high interest rat…

Vale woes keep Rio atop the iron ore heap

02 Feb 2023 - Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) has again held onto its position as the world’s Number 1 iron ore miner after its big Brazilian rival Vale produced a surprisingly weak 4th quarte…

Chinese economy heating up in spite of itself

01 Feb 2023 - The China re-opening story got a significant boost yesterday with sharp rises in the pace of activity across the world’s second-biggest economy in the wake of the rel…

Shoppers heavily discount retail sector

01 Feb 2023 - While interim sales updates in January from some retailers (Myer, JB HiFi and Super Retail Group, for example) told a story of solid gains later part of last year, ot…

Bridge Street Bites: BUB, FLT

01 Feb 2023 - Tuesday’s ASX session saw news from infant formula manufacturer Bubs Australia (ASX:BUB) that led to a big selloff, as well as word of an acquisition by travel group …

Bumper half leads to record payout for IGO

01 Feb 2023 - Nickel and especially lithium proved to be a heady and highly profitable mix for IGO (ASX:IGO) in the six months to December as it moved deeper into the former via th…