Gold prices rose on Friday for their strongest week in six, as bets of an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve again moved into the center stage. Spot gold gained 0.4% at $2,369 after hitting a more than two-week high earlier. Spot prices were up just over 2% last week. Comex gold futures rose […]
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A test this week marks the last days of the US March quarterly reporting season. Only a handful of S&P 500 companies might be reporting, but a couple are going to be pretty influential, especially in the consumer sectors, with mighty Walmart and Home Depot, America’s biggest DIY group, both reporting on Thursday. They will
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Please note due to technical difficulties we will not be releasing a video this morning. US consumer sentiment data released on Friday kept a lid on consumer enthusiasm as the data suggested inflation remains a key concern for consumers. The Dow closed 0.32 per cent higher to post its 8th consecutive positive close. The S&P
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Dr Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist at AMP, discusses developments in investment markets over the past week, economic activity trackers, major global economic events and Australian economic events. Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global shares rose again over the last week, helped by ongoing confidence that major
Major insurer QBE (ASX:QBE) is poised for a solid first half result when it reports in August, judging by its March quarter trading update on Friday. QBE revealed higher gross premiums, a reasonable outcome on costs associated with major catastrophes (especially storms), and a higher return from its investment portfolio. CEO Andrew Horton told the
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Australians just don’t seem to like gold as an investment—or rather, they don’t seem to like investing in the metal like investors in India, China, the US, and many other countries do. Considering we are one of the biggest gold producers in the world—top 3, in fact, and sometimes Number 1—this aversion to owning gold
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Dr Mark Cooksey – Managing Director & CEO – ABx Group (ASX:ABX) is a uniquely positioned, high-tech Australian company delivering materials for a cleaner future. The two current areas of focus are: creation of an ionic adsorption clay rare earth project in northern Tasmania, and establishment of a plant to produce hydrogen fluoride and aluminium
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Alex Hanly – CEO – Lithium Universe (ASX:LU7) is establishing itself as a prominent lithium project builder. The company’s flagship Apollo project is located in James Bay in Canada.
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Andrew Rowe – Managing Director – Mayfield Group Holdings (ASX:MYG) owns a portfolio of complementary, innovative companies, each with a unique value-proposition in the provision of electrical and telecommunications products and services.
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Manny Anton: I’m Manny Anton for the Finance News Network, and today we are talking with Empire Energy Group, chief executive officer, Alex Underwood. Empire Energy Group is a Sydney-based Australian oil and gas company, holding a hundred percent owned and operated assets in the Northern Territory’s exciting and developing Beetaloo Basin. Empire is now
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