The freeze in corporate activity since interest rates rose is finally showing signs of thawing. Unfortunately, there were no signs of it in MA Financial's interim result. But after a period of heavy ...

It's not often a $150bn stock adds a further $80bn of 'value' after reporting falling profits with virtually no hope of growing them. Commonwealth Bank reported falling profits for the '24 financial ...

Rentokil Initial's share price has fallen 20% after weak North American sales triggered a reduction in full-year guidance. US sales are expected to increase just 1%, down from 2-4%. Aggressive ...

On the Money Cafe this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson shine the spotlight on both the residential and commercial real estate sectors, take a look at Westpac's new CEO, AirTrunk, and answer a ...

Alan Kohler here and US CPI was out last night, so I think it's time for a chat with Gerard Minack. As always, we traverse a wide range of topics, starting with the American inflation rate.

Aussie Broadband's full-year result was supposed to be disappointing. The stock was savagely sold off as it pre-released numbers a few weeks ago (see Aussie finds a Buddy) and announced the start of a ...

Hospital operator Ramsay Health Care had pleasing sales on all fronts this year — not only those to patients but to competitors, too. Total revenue rose 5% to $16.7bn after removing the effect of ...

Hello and welcome to Market Watch for pretty much the middle of September, it's this sort of calm before the storm in terms of where we sit. Right now we are waiting for next week's US probably ...

High deposit rates have been fabulous, especially if you're in or near retirement and looking for reliable income. But everything points to lower rates in future and in the US, they seem imminent.

As was explained in last week's Money Café podcast with Alan, a different approach was taken this year when it came to tracking the last day laggards which waited until Friday, August 30 to release ...

Pallets are a boring business. So, when Australia's largest pallet pooler jumps 25% in a month, it begs attention. Brambles has made quite a bit of progress since we looked at the stock a few years ...

It's been 44 years since a copper miner was the most valuable company on the Australian stock exchange, but that record could soon be equalled as BHP's copper business starts to earn more than its ...