Author name: Joanna Dimitrakopoulos

Austco Healthcare (ASX:AHC) has been awarded a $3.9M contract to supply its advanced IP nurse call system for a new aged care facility. Austco Healthcare CEO, Clayton Astles, said, “This contract win is a testament to the strength of our product offering and our commitment to delivering innovative solutions.” Shares are trading 21.74 per cent […]

At noon, the S&P/ASX 200 is 0.3 per cent lower at 7,257.70. There is a likelihood of testing chart support below 7200 as the market enters a seasonally weak period. If the US market also declines from its level of 4200, the ASX may even reach the 6900 level. This downward trend is influenced by

Luke Reinehr – CEO and Chairman – Kalamazoo Resources (ASX:KZR) is a gold and lithium exploration company with major assets in Tier 1 mining jurisdictions – the Victorian Goldfields, the Pilbara region in Western Australia and the Lachlan Fold Belt in New South Wales.

Tom Suprling – Executive Director – Nova Eye Medical (ASX:EYE) is introducing a comprehensive portfolio of novel glaucoma treatment options which span the entire disease process – enabling physicians to intervene earlier, and more often, in the treatment of glaucoma. 

Andrew Sparke – Managing Director – QMines Limited (ASX:QML) is an Australian based exploration and development Company. The company owns four advanced copper and gold projects located in Queensland.

Robin Cox – Technical Director – Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM) is focussed on exploration for key battery minerals lithium, nickel and copper in stable pro mining jurisdictions. The company has projects with high-grade shallow nickel sulphide resources that are being driven towards development and production and projects highly prospective for large sedimentary-hosted lithium deposits.

Newmont has come and gone after snatching Newcrest (ASX:NCM), Genesis may have saved its Leonora marriage with struggling bride St Barbara and, while there are a few other smaller bids and deals, the outlook for gold mergers and acquisitions in Australia will be small beer from now on as life as a pure gold miner

The Japanese economy is booming, wages are surging, the stockmarket is at levels not seen in three decades and the outlook is its most upbeat in years. And, yes inflation is high – at levels that are very un-Japanese – costs are rising, not flat or falling into deflation as they have been for much

So why is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway still sitting on a $US1.5 billion paper loss on a 15% stake in Paramount Global, the former Viacom and CBS groups (and owner of the Ten Network in Australia) controlled by Shari Redstone, especially when Paramount+, the company’s cash eating streaming video business is something Buffett clearly doesn’t

As the US debt ceiling talks drag on towards the June 1 We’re out of money! deadline set by the American Treasury, big global investors are cashing up – which is not unexpected. Late in the week markets became optimistic that a deal is imminent, but no one should put their trust in any deal