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QMastor is a small company doing big things in mining logistics software.

Flight Centre has lifted earnings guidance for the current year but brokers see increasing headwinds in FY09 and so have dropped price targets significantly.

Transpacific Industries rates quite highly among brokers in the FNarena database at current levels but Austock has downgraded its rating to Sell on concerns earnings won’t meet market expectations.

Weekly musings by your editor. The world is changing and so are investment views. Overall risk appetite has become the main victim.

The RBS has advised clients to brace for a fully-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets in the next three months.

A divergence of monetary policy between the Fed and the ECB is threatening the very existence of the euro as a currency.

Standard Chartered met with clients in Asia and came away with clues on how investors in the region view the outlook for Fed action and the outlook for markets and economies in the region.

Gearing levels in the listed property trust sector remain above targeted levels and with other options not proving successful in bringing down gearing equity raisings are being seen as an alternative.

Having been in an uptrend for the past 25 years Macquarie suggests there are a number of issues likely to now weigh on global corporate profit growth.

Chinese authorities appear to be moving towards a combination of monetary and currency appreciation to deal with inflation, which suggests a slower rate of currency appreciation.