Telstra Corp Ltd (ASX: TLS, OTC: TTRAF, ADR: TLSYY), Australia’s biggest telecom, is on the verge of completing its AUD11 billion deal with the National Broadband Network.
“Momentum dividend investing” is a recent trend soon to die as those who practice it realize its money-losing potential.
Australia’s Big Four banks are under scrutiny for their exposure to Europe and wholesale funding markets. These concerns are legitimate and overblown.
Natural gas is priced at levels not seen since the 1990s. Abnormally warm weather in key regions suggests they’ll remain depressed. Here’s how natural gas prices impact dividend-paying energy stocks.
All things considered–and this, too, is a relative game–there’s little reason for investors to fear Australian politicians.
There’s plenty of impending-doom-related nonsense associated with 2012 without taking the extraneous and often intellectually compromised step of comparing our current year to the Great Depression’s 1932.
But low expectations will prove easy to beat for solid businesses.
APA Group (ASX: APA, OTC: APAJF) dominates Australia’s pipeline industry. But a potential natural gas boom could pave the way for more players and more competition.
It’s been a lot of bad news for Australian retail stocks over the last week. Amalgamated Holdings Ltd (ASX: AHD, OTC: AMGHF) has managed to avoid the carnage.
Accidents will happen, and energy companies have to build these costs into their business models. It’s the unintended consequences of good-intentioned legislators and regulators that create unexpected costs, eventually for consumers.
