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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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Bourse Discourse: ARG, BEN, BPT

16 Aug 2022 - Even with market sentiment having improved a bit, the pressure on companies to deliver this reporting season is higher than ever. While LIC Argo Investments (ASX:ARG)…

Chinese economy takes another turn for the worse

16 Aug 2022 - Confirmation that for all his blustering over Taiwan, Covid, corruption and a new way of living, China’s President Xi Jinping is presiding over an economy that is sli…

Record result for BlueScope but future murky

15 Aug 2022 - While BlueScope Steel has met guidance with a record result for the year to June of $2.81 billion, investors will not like the near 70% slide in the company’s Decembe…

Monday Market Minutes: Not drowning, waving

15 Aug 2022 - Global equity markets rose strongly on Friday while US Treasury bond yields fell as investors continued to bet on interest rates not rising as much as previously fear…

Diary: Reasons to be cheerful, part 3

15 Aug 2022 - As markets eye higher levels in the coming week, the data flow will be less stressful than we have seen in recent weeks in most major economies but there will still b…

Commodities Corner: Rust never sleeps

15 Aug 2022 - With the notable exception of iron ore, commodities had a solid end to a positive week as market fears eased over the pace of inflation and central bank interest rate…

Earnings Round-Up: Time for a cool change

15 Aug 2022 - A big test of the recovery in local investor sentiment and confidence looms in the form of the June half Australian earnings reporting season, which hits full pace th…

New US legislation a game-changer for renewables

15 Aug 2022 - Those chasing rewards from renewables such as lithium aren’t quite sure what to make of the latest US legislation called The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – other t…

Climate change no chump change for insurers

15 Aug 2022 - Climate change played a key role in the heavy rain and floods in southeast Queensland and along the NSW coast earlier this year which ended up being the world’s most …

Yet more blood on the crypto tracks

15 Aug 2022 - More red ink in the crypto world, this time one of the more established names – Coinbase, which this week revealed a $US2.69 billion plunge from a profit in June 2021…

Moody's a big fan of BHP's OZ moves

15 Aug 2022 - Moody’s certainly likes BHP’s appetite for OZ Minerals and the benefits it sees the deal bringing to the world’s biggest (but slimming) resources company).

Mirvac looking to build on decent year

12 Aug 2022 - Securities in property manager and investment group Mirvac (ASX:MGR) jumped nearly 4% on Thursday after it revealed a better-than-expected net result for the year to …

QBE thinking the worst is behind it

12 Aug 2022 - QBE (ASX:QBE) has upgraded its insurance outlook for the rest of 2022 despite being hit with a hefty drop in profits due largely to falls in investment markets in the…

AMP carrot bigger than its stick

12 Aug 2022 - AMP (ASX:AMP) reported a 24.5% slump in half-year profit but will throw a $1.1 billion capital return the way of its patient but long-suffering shareholders.

First payout lift in seven years for Telstra

12 Aug 2022 - Full year profits at Telstra (ASX:TLS) fell 4.6% to $1.81 billion for the year to June, with the company lifting its final dividend for the first time in seven years …

All wheat and no chaff for GrainCorp

11 Aug 2022 - Shares in GrainCorp (ASX:GNC) jumped yesterday after the company again upgraded earnings guidance for its year to September 2022 results.

Musk takes more off the top with Tesla sales

11 Aug 2022 - So why is Tesla CEO Elon Musk still raising billions of dollars in cash by selling more and more of his stake in the electric vehicle maker?

Market takes the long stick to St Barbara

11 Aug 2022 - The St Barbara (ASX:SBM) shares were the worst performed among ASX 200 stocks yesterday after the company produced what amounted to a negative downgrade of its outloo…

CBA earnings hit 4-year high on improved loan book

11 Aug 2022 - Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA) posted its highest annual cash earnings in four years, partly thanks to a now faded first-half surge in home lending.

Confidence turnaround a tricky one for RBA

10 Aug 2022 - The Reserve Bank won’t like reading that the National Australia Bank’s latest survey for July showed a strengthening in business conditions, reversing the recent soft…

Costs, climate change dull Coronado's glow

10 Aug 2022 - Amid all the positivity of record revenues, prices and earnings for Coronado Resources (ASX:CRN) in the six months to June 30, the US-Australian coal group also had a…

Emerging tech not for the faint of heart

10 Aug 2022 - The life of an emerging tech stock is hard sometimes.

Green metal prospects have NEVer looked brighter

10 Aug 2022 - In another bullish point for lithium, copper, nickel and all those other green metals, Chinese new electric vehicle sales (or NEVS, New Energy Vehicles) continued at …

FY2021-22 a slight derailment for Aurizon

09 Aug 2022 - No matter how Aurizon tried to spin it, the 2021-22 results yesterday justified the 3%-4% or so slide in the share price.

SUN's upbeat talk eclipsed by earnings, payout cut

09 Aug 2022 - Suncorp has slashed its payout to shareholders after reporting a sharp fall in earnings for the 2021-22 financial year.