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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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Commodities Corner: Oil in catchup mode

16 Jan 2023 - This week saw oil markets join copper and other metals in starting 2023 with a bang with the China re-opening story running ahead of the reality in Friday’s December …

Monday Market Minutes: Strength in numbers

16 Jan 2023 - A solid week for equity markets and bonds around the world and conditions seem set up for a continuation this week, though a new US debt limit brawl in Washington cou…

China quietly starts accepting Oz coal again

15 Jan 2023 - China has reportedly ended the two-and-a-half-year ban on Australian coal imports by allowing officials in the southern province of Guangdong to clear Australian carg…

Optimistic commodities markets looking to pre-empt the Fed

15 Jan 2023 - Judging by the surge in commodity prices, led by gold, it’s all over bar the shouting – inflation has been defeated, the Fed’s on the cusp of slowing or even reversin…

Epic 2022 weather making life tough for insurers

15 Jan 2023 - It’s no wonder that general insurers like IAG, Suncorp and QBE are facing higher reinsurance costs for yet another year in 2023 after financial services giant Munich …

Merger mania continues among local miners

15 Jan 2023 - Wedding bells continued to sound across the gold mining industry over the Christmas-New Year break, extending the trend that emerged earlier in 2022.

Oz trade surplus holds firm despite soft exports

13 Jan 2023 - A drop in the value of energy imports enabled Australia to offset falls in the prices and volumes of key exports like iron, ore, coal and LNG in the month of November…

Berkshire Hathaway continues BYD selldown

13 Jan 2023 - Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has again raised eyebrows with another selldown of shares in the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker (and second biggest batter…

Provisions the watchword for US bank reports

13 Jan 2023 - While Goldman Sachs’ deep cost cutting and 3,200 job losses have grabbed most of the headlines ahead of tonight’s release of results from four major banks, analysts a…

Gruyere still a shining light for Gold Road

13 Jan 2023 - Gold Road has been one of the earliest reporters of how its key asset – in this case, the 50% of the Gruyere gold mine in WA – performed in the preceding quarter and …

Newcrest reaps handy windfall from Lundin

12 Jan 2023 - With interest rates rising and central banks winding back their free money programs, cash is becoming ever more important to companies both large and small.

Oz economy's strength is also its weakness

12 Jan 2023 - Wednesday’s big post-holidays data dump from the Australian Bureau of Statistics seems to be telling us little changed in the economy from October to November.

SQM chasing the blue sky in Azure

12 Jan 2023 - Azure Minerals shares jumped yesterday after it received the financial blessing of one of the world’s two major lithium giants – Chile’s Sociedad Química y Minera de …

Buying stampede for Vale base metals stake

12 Jan 2023 - In news that is sure to have a bearing on Chalice Mining’s plans to sell a stake in its huge Julimar metals project in WA, Brazilian mining major Vale has been knocke…

Spending data hints at soft start for retailers

11 Jan 2023 - We had a key pointer yesterday towards the strength of consumer spending when the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics spending data showed a solid, but slowing rat…

News Corp extends HQ lease for 20 years

11 Jan 2023 - A big New York property deal has outlined the future shape of the Murdoch family’s media empire’s key companies News Corp and Fox Corp – amid all the speculation abou…

Cimolai woes poor timing indeed for Macquarie

11 Jan 2023 - On the face of it, a $A71 million bad debt is not a big deal for Macquarie Group but the timing and nature of the loss could hardly be worse for Australia’s premier i…

Red metal hitting a purple patch

11 Jan 2023 - Copper has made a roaring start to 2023, defying most forecasts for an indifferent kick off and sluggish performance in the early new year.

No turnaround in sight for building approvals

10 Jan 2023 - The decline in the home building industry is set to continue deep into 2023 after November data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed another sharp …

ANZ starts the Suncorp spin cycle

10 Jan 2023 - ANZ has kicked off its marketing campaign to win support for its potentially competition-limiting acquisition of Suncorp Bank with an obviously well-briefed pro-deal …

IGO hunting that essential acquisition

10 Jan 2023 - Australian miner IGO Ltd and its Chinese partner Tanqui have made a well-timed bid for the smaller lithium aspirant Essential Metals at a likely cost of around $A136 …

Galileo sees Callisto's prospects improve further

10 Jan 2023 - Galileo Mining’s Callisto PGE 3 (palladium, platinum and gold) discovery in the WA gold fields continues to grow in importance with new assays from holes drilled on t…

The Elon and winding road

09 Jan 2023 - Along with the related storylines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, interest rates, jobs and economic growth, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his $US44 bill…

Commodities Corner: New leaf, same tree

09 Jan 2023 - The new year has started with all eyes turned to key renewable commodities led by lithium.

Diary: Playing the dating game

09 Jan 2023 - This week and January as a whole will be dominated by December quarter earnings, exploration and production reports from a host of miners here and offshore, economic …