Daily FNArena News

Economist Manmohan Singh and consultant Peter Stella argue money multiplier economics no longer holds, which implies less reason to fear an inflationary impact from expanding bank reserves.

The LNG debate heats up, with Moelis questioning the standalone capacity of Santos and Origin in the east coast CSM race.

While a majority of the brokers in the FNArena database rate Computershare as a Buy, Citi is less bullish given evidence the company is not well positioned for growth in the US.

If Europe isn’t getting all the attention China is, but no one ever mentions India when perhaps, given current problems, it should.

FNArena’s weekly update on short positions in the Australian share market.

Orica has delivered an interim profit result slightly better than brokers had forecast despite operational difficulties during the period.

Trading remains thin, but the uranium spot price bowed to term market pressure in posting a US50c rise last week.

Fund manager Alphinity draws upon the UK experience, where online shopping is already four times proportionately bigger than in Australia, to help assess the future for Australia’s listed retailers and retail REITs.

CMC Markets reports Australian CFD trading shifted to an international footing in April, with Germany and Apple popular along with BHP and the banks.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with forecasts being revised, updates on precious metals and aluminium and changing capex plans for miners.