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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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Fear of hanging on and Quasimodo's dream

27 Jun 2022 - Acronyms abound in money. ASX, S&P, FAANGs, BRICs, RBA are so of the better known, but pretty old hat, ones I’m sure you are familiar with.

Monday Market Minutes: Its no picnic out there

27 Jun 2022 - Global sharemarkets ended three weeks of losses on Friday as the bears retreated to the sidelines – for how long we don’t know.

Tough week for some local gold producers

27 Jun 2022 - It’s fair to say the local gold sector has had better weeks. Three of its constituents in particular.

Buffett still a happy buyer of oil shares

24 Jun 2022 - Warren Buffett still has an appetite for oil and shares in two of America’s biggest producers of the stuff, Chevron and Occidental.

Resource Rumblings: ILU, MCR

24 Jun 2022 - News from the ASX resources sector on Thursday saw Iluka wasting no time in moving on from Sierra Rutile and Mincor continuing its Lazarus-like renaissance.

Inflationary pressures spill over into milk market

24 Jun 2022 - Global milk prices have firmed this year and that means dairy farmers and consumers in NZ and Australia will have to learn to tolerate higher prices for milk, cheese …

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief

24 Jun 2022 - Australian households might have grown their total wealth by 1.2% in the March quarter to reach a new record of $14.89 trillion, but that’s as high as it will get for…

Kellogg to split into bite-size pieces

22 Jun 2022 - More confirmation that scale, synergy and are out for American corporates and nimbleness is now the flavour of the times - at least for cereal and snack group Kellogg…

Musk confirms Tesla staff cuts

22 Jun 2022 - Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla would cut 10% of its salaried staff in the next three months.

Freight costs take a bite out of SDI profits

22 Jun 2022 - Dental technology company SDI (ASX:SDI) Ltd says it is expecting a solid 16% boost in revenues for the year to June 30, but that will not mean a higher earnings figur…

Australian Agricultural (ASX:AAC) loses its chief but gains a friend

22 Jun 2022 - Out of the blue, Australian Agricultural Company (ASX:AAC) lost long time CEO Hugh Killen yesterday, effective immediately.

RBA Governor back in spin mode

22 Jun 2022 - Tuesday’s speech from RBA governor Philip Lowe warning that interest rates are going to have to rise to try and put a lid on rising inflation was nothing really diffe…

Mall owner still in the vicinity of confident

21 Jun 2022 - Vicinity Centres, the country’s second biggest shopping mall group, has reaffirmed its confidence in the Australian consumer in its updated guidance for the 2021-22 J…

Iluka pushing hard for Sierra rutile split

21 Jun 2022 - Iluka Resources is urging shareholders to support the demerger of the company’s disappointing Sierra Leone beach sands operations to clear the way for the creation of…

Jansen's long-term gain for BHP's short-term pain

21 Jun 2022 - Shares in BHP and other major miners fell sharply yesterday as iron ore prices again sold off in China, continuing the weakness of the last week or so.

Comm Bank set to take big hit on Klarna

20 Jun 2022 - The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is facing the prospect of a billion dollar plus impairment of the book value of its 5.5% stake in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) giant Klarn…

Commodities Corner: Second fiddle

20 Jun 2022 - Commodity prices took a battering last week after the Fed’s 0.75% rate rise and smaller rises from central banks in the UK, Brazil and Switzerland startled markets ou…

Diary: Nothing to fear but fear itself

20 Jun 2022 - After the excitement of the last couple of weeks, who needs another frenetic five days? Well, here we go again, with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell back in the h…

Monday Morning Minutes: False dichotomies

20 Jun 2022 - Another week on the edge for global markets after world stocks ended their steepest weekly slide since early days of the pandemic meltdown in March 2020.

China trying to smelt its way out of trouble

20 Jun 2022 - Surprisingly, given the negative impact of the Covid lockdowns on Chinese car production during the same period, the country’s blast furnaces ran flat out to put stee…

Benchmark counters Goldman's take on lithium

20 Jun 2022 - Goldman Sachs (GS) has bigger things on its mind with the stockmarket slump and implosion in crypto, but its claim in late May of a looming oversupply in lithium that…

Careful what you wish for - it might come true

20 Jun 2022 - Was Thursday’s sharp sharemarket slide (and late bond rally) an acknowledgement by financial markets that they had overreached in urging central banks to boost rates …

Bubs growing up quickly

17 Jun 2022 - Being the baby formula supplier of last resort to the huge, deprived US market is paying off in spades for Bubs Australia which today revealed a surge in revenue and …

D&D Link bid looks as dead as a doornail

17 Jun 2022 - Another takeover attempt for Link Administration Holdings seems headed for collapse as competition regulator, the ACCC, confirmed market reports Thursday morning that…

Jobs strength adds to rates pressure

17 Jun 2022 - The labour market didn’t get the memo about growing fears of a slowdown because of rising interest rates, rising costs, especially for petrol, weakening consumer spen…