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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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Sigma pays big time for lack of direction

27 Sep 2022 - Investors in Sigma Healthcare (ASX:SIG) reacted negatively to yesterday’s half year results, details of a major change in strategy and a bare bones interim dividend t…

More messing about than merging and acquiring

27 Sep 2022 - Monday saw the death knell finally rung for two of the… shall we say, less professional business entanglements in recent memory – although we all know nothing is fore…

Currency affairs: Forex markets spring to life

26 Sep 2022 - A blast from the past as suddenly market worries about currency values have joined rising inflation in making a comeback as the topic of the day in a re-run of what w…

Commodities corner: Dumpster diving

26 Sep 2022 - Rising interest rates, the soaring US dollar and renewed recession worries sent commodities prices lower on Friday ending a week that saw downward pressure on oil and…

Diary: An inflated sense of self

26 Sep 2022 - Inflation takes centre stage in Australia this Wednesday with the new monthly indicator to be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics which will mesh with the…

Monday market minutes: Ending in tears

26 Sep 2022 - The ASX is looking at another big loss today after Friday’s sell-off here and around the world.

Abnormal the new normal for monetary policy

24 Sep 2022 - It was a rare time in central banking this week with rate rises seemingly here, there and everywhere as September again confirmed itself as the oddest month for finan…

Newmont postpones Peru; OZ OKs West Musgrave

24 Sep 2022 - Contrasting decisions from two major miners on multi-billion dollar projects in the past week or so – one in Peru and the other in Australia.

Ratings agencies cool on mining, energy prospects

24 Sep 2022 - 2022 so far has been as good as it will ever get for the world’s mining and resource companies but now the outlook is softening by the week and with every central ban…

Coal space rolling on, rolling in it

24 Sep 2022 - No wonder Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC) shares touched record levels this week after it revealed another cornucopia of rewards from the coal price boom for shareholders t…

US Fed going for inflation's jugular

23 Sep 2022 - For the third time in a row the US Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by 0.75 percentage points and made it clear it was not looking to slow or alter its ag…

No local shake-out at Fonterra after all

23 Sep 2022 - The world’s biggest dairy company, New Zealand’s Fonterra (ASX:FSF), will keep its Australian operations, deciding not to sell after having them on the market for the…

Soul Patts, Brickworks deliver as expected

23 Sep 2022 - After thermal coal miner and exporter New Hope Corporation revealed a massive surge in net profit (more than 1,100%) for the year to July 31, a big rise in the earnin…

Coles finally siphons off petrol Business

23 Sep 2022 - Coles (ASX:COL) is finally out of direct selling of petrol, almost four years after rival Woolies bailed out of the business.

Turquoise Hill now a battle of wills

23 Sep 2022 - Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) CEO Jakob Stausholm made it clear his company will not be lifting its offer for the 49% of Turquoise Hill it doesn’t own.

New Hope happy to share the wealth

21 Sep 2022 - New Hope Corp (ASX:NHC) has joined coal exporting rivals like Yancoal Australia and Whitehaven in confirming how it rode the spillover from Russia’s invasion of Ukrai…

A trail of two halves for KMD Brands

21 Sep 2022 - A series of records for NZ-based clothing and adventure wear group KMD Brands (ASX:KMD) in the year to July helped it shrug off the dramatic impact on its trading per…

Forrest puts foot down re Fortescue footprint

21 Sep 2022 - Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) has given itself eight years and a budget of around $9 billion to eliminate fossil fuel use and achieve zer…

$1 billion costs surge drives Ford into the red

21 Sep 2022 - Several months ago, it was Walmart surprising Wall Street with an earnings downgrade because of the impact of inflation; last week it was FedEx warning of a looming r…

Key property exec moving on from News Corp

20 Sep 2022 - In what is a major surprise, News Corp (ASX:NWS) has reportedly lost its most experienced real estate executive.

Origin to exit Beetaloo, pivot decidedly green

20 Sep 2022 - Origin Energy (ASX:ORG) is heading deeper into the renewables space.

Musical chairs continue in AGL boardroom

20 Sep 2022 - Monday saw a round of significant changes on the board of embattled energy provider, AGL (ASX:AGL) with a couple major retirements, two new appointments and an impend…

Markets already looking past next rate rise

20 Sep 2022 - Only a couple more sleeps until the September meeting of the US Federal Reserve and its forecast three quarters of a per cent rate rise – the question now is, where t…

Diary: Send Her Victorious

19 Sep 2022 - There’s a certain funeral in London later today and a spate of central bank meetings and decisions set to dominate what will be another volatile week in markets after…

Yuan, CSI caned as China property crisis deepens

19 Sep 2022 - The deepening property crisis took all the gloss off China’s better than expected data for production, retail sales and investment in August.