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CallMeD. wrote:Powers such as hers are indeed a rarity to say the least. Yet to be so unique at such a young age, & to be sought after for a far greater purpose than simply maturing as a mere child would. We have myths & tails of such individuals, possesing the gift of foresight, who were plagued by humanity & had to suffer for these gifts. Her life would have been anything but easy; although it surely left minor scars compared to the time she spent in the company of her father. My opinion is simply that I doubt she found much joy in being exploited for her powers, even though it was intended for good, & would have probably been happier not being so unique.
CallMeD. wrote: Although he's long moved on from being a boy genius, he's continued to push past the limits of science; even to include his own body it seems. Judging from his dialogue, I'd say he's either gone on to become a cyborg or (for unknown reasons) resorted to wearing a enhanced suit that could be acting as a form of life support.
konata50 wrote:foresight is a pretty bad ability to have if your grow dependent on it your world will be raped
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Xi-1 wrote:Wasn't Dexter first seen with these cybernetic implants in 'Older and Wiser?' They could be replacements for parts he lost in battles, although before or after they started using the Angel system is something we cannot yet know. It would also seem that his vocal synthesizer has removed his trademark accent. Too bad.
Xi-1 wrote:It is interesting to learn about Mimi's power, in that it involves telepathy and precognition. I don't remember either of these coming from the Powerpuff Girls, but perhaps the telepathy comes from HIM, since he is gifted at warping people's minds. Turning that kind of power to the side of good is just the kind of thing Blossom and Dexter would try to do.
Xi-1 wrote:I would guess that since Mimi's power is telepathic in nature, the way she's detecting the metahuman threats is by scanning their thoughts and pinging to them when the metahumans think of committing a crime.
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Oatmeal CookiesI have really been craving cookies. It is almost unnatural. At least I won't let my gym membership lapse! So, I wanted some cookies that would satisfy me, and yet I wouldn't feel the need to consume massive amounts! So, I add raisins to them! BUT I didn;t have any raisins, so I added craisins. I don't think the 40′s housewife had these, but I bet she would have liked them!
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Margherita PizzaI love homemade PIZZA!
Margherita pizza is my favorite pizza, but once again I was defeated by the summer heat (no central air inside the homestead)! I decided to give grilled pizza a shot.
Sep 7, 2011
Labor Day AdventuresA long week + Perfect weather = Time to camp!
Over Labor Day weekend some friends and I decided to go camping in the mountains not far from our home.


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Saturday, May 10 @ 10:30amTwo couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Reserve it.
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The mostly upbeat tone of domestic company reporting season overcame a shaky lead from the United States and concerns about liquidity in China as local shares edged higher.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index eked out a gain of 1.5 points, or 0.03 per cent, on Monday to 5440.2, to close higher for the seventh straight session. The broader All Ordinaries Index added less than 1 point to 5450.1.
Local shares had a weak lead from Wall Street, which closed lower on Friday after a National Association of Realtors report showed sales of previously owned homes in the United States fell by 5.1 per cent in January, against expectations for a 4.1 per cent fall.
Falls in major Asian markets applied further pressure on the local index in the afternoon. China's Shanghai Composite Index lost more than 2 per cent following news reports Chinese banks are tightening property lending.
The focus for local equity investors remained firmly on company reporting season. Bluescope Steel climbed 7.3 per cent to $6.30 after chief executive Paul O'Malley said the outlook for the steelmaker was improving.
"Generally speaking, so far reporting season has been slightly better than expected", Dalton Nicol Reid chief investment officer Jamie Nicol said. "We are likely to see some decent earnings growth this year for the first time in a number of years which is a real positive."
And.. drumroll please... the best and worst for the day!
Transfield Services is up by a massive 25 per cent on news that the company had won (or was close to winning) a $1.2 billion contract to provide services to the Nauru and Manus island refugee camps.
Beach Energy is up 8.9 per cent on a well-received earnings update, while investors were impressed BlueScope Steel had any earnings at all.
Engineering group Monadelphous showed companies in its sector are not all bad apples after it announced a $680 million contract of its own. Up went the shares by 6.5 per cent.
Worst among the top 200 stocks was Pacific Brands, down a modest 4 per cent.
Spreading the net wider to the All Ords and you find one of the stories of the day, Boart Longyear, which is 15 per cent lower and has called in the consultants after it announced it had lost almost $700 million in 2013.
Best and worst performers in the ASX 200.
Shares have scratched out the barest of gains to keep intact a seven-trading day winning streak, with the ASX 200 closing less than 2 points higher to 5440.2.
The local market followed the lead of Chinese shares and traded lower into the afternoon before a last gasp gain of around 15 points at close.
The biggest drag on the market were some blue-chip names trading ex-dividend; Telstra finished 2.4 per cent lower, Wesfarmers 2.7 per cent, while Woodside and Suncorp were both 3 per cent down.
The impact of these big names on the overall index was apparent in the fact that 106 stocks were up, and 76 were down (18 were even).
Metals and mining was the best performing sector, led higher by BHP, which finished 0.9 per cent higher, and Fortescue, which advanced 2.2 per cent. Gold producers as a group jumped 2.5 per cent, with Newcrest closing up 2.7 per cent.
Financial stocks were up 0.2 per cent, with Westpac, ANZ, and CBA finished a little higher, while NAB eased 0.6 per cent.
China shares have tumbled to their lowest in two weeks, hurting Hong Kong markets, roiled by mainland news reports saying banks have begun tightening property loans.
China Vanke dived more than 6 per cent after the official Shanghai Securities News reported that Industrial Bank may have stopped some types of property-related loans, though several other banks have left property-loan policies unchanged.
"I would get out of interest rate-sensitive sectors. It's very hard to navigate right now with policy risk on the rise," says Hong Hao, Hong Kong-based chief equity strategist at Bank of Communication International. "Property prices in many cities are still rising and that's not a good sign coming ahead of the annual parliamentary meetings that start next week." Those meetings are due to start March 5 in Beijing.
The Shanghai Composite is down 2 per cent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng has lost 1.3 per cent.
Mainland losses are coming in hefty volumes. Midday Shanghai volumes were at their strongest in two months after official data showed average new home prices rose 9.6 per cent in China's 70 major cities in January from a year earlier.
Mining services provider Boart Longyear has appointed Goldman Sachs to lead a strategic review of the company after it plunged to a $US620 million ($691 million) net loss in 2013 and failed to provide earnings guidance for 2014 due to ongoing industry volatility.
The Utah-based company's shares fell by 17 per cent in early trading on the ASX before recovering some of those losses to trade 11 per cent down at 37.5¢ in early afternoon trade. Boart shares are down 78 per cent in the last 12 months.
While the company says it remains confident it can manage its business and "associated liquidity risks", it has asked Goldman Sachs to launch a review to maximise value for Boart stakeholders. The market expects both asset sales and a potential equity raising will be considered as the company fights to stay solvent over the short term.
The review aims to preserve the value of the drilling services and products divisions, ensure the company continues as a going concern while capturing future growth when the market recovers.
The company has again negotiated new financial covenants to cover its debt including minimum cumulative earnings over the last 12 months of $US45 million until March 31, 2015.
The global dividend pool has exceeded $US1 trillion for the first time as companies respond to shareholders' demands for income, underscoring the seemingly insatiable thirst for dividends triggered by ultra-stimulatory monetary policy.
However, 2013 also represents the slowest growth for dividends in the post-crisis era. Last year, dividends rose 2.8 per cent as US companies began dropping payouts in the fourth quarter. That's when the US Federal Reserve confirmed it would taper the pace of its bond-buying program in the first step to unwinding more than $US3 trillion of quantitative easing.
Global dividends reached $US1.03 trillion in calendar 2013, a record, representing a 43 per cent increase from 2009, according to research published by Henderson Global Investors. The Asia-Pacific region, where Australia is the dominant source of dividends ahead of Hong Kong, grew 79 per cent over the same period.
On an annual basis the Australia balance ($US40.3 billion) was up 10.2 per cent, ahead of Canada ($US38.5 billion), Germany ($US36.4 billion) and gaining ground on Japan ($US46.4 billion). Since 2009, Australia is up 89 per cent.
Henderson chief executive Andrew Formica predicted the demand for income from equities would endure:
- The search for income is more than just a response to rock bottom interest rates in recent years. It marks a generational shift as ageing populations must increasingly rely less on state pensions and more on their own savings to provide for retirement.
- Not only that, but they will need to stay invested in equities much longer than in the past too. This demand for equity income is a trend we see continuing through 2014 and beyond.
Poker machine manufacturer Ainsworth Game Technology reported tax profit for the December half year surged 62 per cent against the previous corresponding period to $35.7 million, and the company boosted interim dividend of 5 cents a share (unfranked), against 3 cents this time last year.
But investors were largely left unimpressed, and the stock eased 1.1 per cent in afternoon trading.
A 51 per cent jump in before-tax profit to $45.6 million was in line with the company's guidance it provided in mid-January.
Revenue was up 26 per cent to $121.8 million.
"Further investment in research and development, the on-going release of innovative product initiatives and new licensing submissions are expected to further assist in achieving market share gains in all established markets and to provide access to new markets in future periods," the company said.
"Investment in the group's Las Vegas operational facility in prior periods has provided the necessary support for the expected growth in international markets."
James Packer, Robert De Niro and former Qantas chairman Margaret Jackson are behind the US launch last week of a super premium Australian vodka brand, VDKA 6100, which they plan to take global and top $100 million in sales within two years, the AFR is reporting.
Packer has sunk an estimated $10 million into Melbourne-based Artisan Spirit Merchants after Jackson brokered the investment deal – both are former Qantas board directors.
Packer, chairman of Crown Resorts, enlisted De Niro to join the venture as a "co-creator" for the new vodka, which is made in New Zealand from milk whey instead of grains or starches to create a smoother taste. VDKA 6100 "soft launched" in the US last week.
The first major promotional activity will be as the official vodka for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April, of which De Niro is a co-founder. The actor is also a co-founder of the upmarket international restaurant and hotel group Nobu.
Skol! Robert de Niro with James Packer.
It's the back half of the earnings season and share price momentum is reaching historical highs.
Around 84 per cent of ASX 200 stocks are now trading above their 21-day moving average (MA), points out IG's chief market strategist, Chris Weston.
The 21-day MA is an indicator of short-term price momentum, and a popular one among day traders.
At the last high in October (when the market was at 5457), 78 per cent of stocks above the 21-day MA.
At the all-time high in late 2007, the proportion was 64 per cent.
What's more, at the moment there are around 10 per cent of the index's constituents 10 per cent above that 21-day average.
Too short term? There are also 68 per cent of stocks above the longer term 200-day MA, Weston says.
"I can't find a time when this has been higher," he says: last October there were 63 per cent; in Nov 2007 there were 61 per cent.
"This doesn't mean we are going to see a pullback," points out Weston, who describes himself as a momentum-style investor who likes to "buy high and sells higher".
"What it does show is how broad-based the rally has been and that the moves higher have been over a diverse range of sectors."
Then a bit of technical talk: "I do feel we are becoming overbought, but the oscillators are not at extremes by any means yet. Still, a break on the S&P of 1850 is needed for all markets this week".
Even international drug traffickers need investment advisers, but it looks like criminals don't like putting their money into stocks.
That was Robert Mazur's experience when he went undercover for the US government in the 1980s and '90s. Posing as a Mob-connected businessman, he helped the Medellin drug cartel launder and invest its suitcases full of cash.
His clients were "the biggest crooks in the world," says Mazur, author of The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel.
Yet they "always told me that they don't gamble", Mazur says. "They don't take risk, which is why the stock market was of absolutely no interest to them."
Wait, criminals don't like risk? Murder, drug trafficking, fraud and bribery - all okay. But propose buying them shares of Twitter or Tesla, and they freak?
Investing, by definition, means trusting others. You must believe chief financial officers aren't cooking the books and rely on people like Mark Zuckerberg to make smart use of the billions at their disposal. For criminals who thrive on taking advantage of trust that's not an easy sell.
Convicted felon Sam Antar says stock-picking - trusting in people and numbers you can't directly verify - sets you up as a mark for the unscrupulous.
Mobsters are happy to pull the trigger on all kinds of deals, but generally stay well away from the sharemarket.
Investor reactions are coming in to our report that David Jones is willing to consider Myer's merger plan.
Two major shareholders in DJs say Australia's No.2 department store firm should reject any takeover from its larger rival unless it tops the company's $1.76 billion market value.
The duo, which together own about 10 per cent of David Jones shares, say the retailer should consider a sale if shareholders benefited but should reject Myer's offer - pitched as a "merger of equals" without a premium.
Myer in October offered to buy David Jones at market value - then about $1.4 billion - to increase their competitiveness amid falling sales as shoppers go online. After Myer repeated its nil-premium offer on February 20, David Jones said it would consider any proposal in its shareholders' interests.
"If they want to acquire it, they have to pay up for it," says Paul Xiradis, chief executive of fund manager Ausbil Dexia, David Jones's second-largest shareholder with a stake of around 5 per cent:
- In order for it to be compelling for David Jones shareholders it needs to be something which is at a reasonable premium. I don't think a nil (premium) merger discussion is one that should lead to anywhere.
Simon Marais, managing director of Allan Gray Australia, which also has about 5 per cent of David Jones shares, says the company "shouldn't do a deal where all the benefits go to Myer".
David Jones shares have risen 15 per cent since January 30 when it first confirmed it had received and rejected Myer's offer two months earlier. The shares are 0.6 per cent up in a flat overall market. Myer shares are up 1.5 per cent.
Ructions over Santos's unimpressive earnings and poor reserves data released last Friday are continuing, with JPMorgan cutting its target price for Santos shares, while raising question marks over the long term cash generation capacity of Santos's Queensland gas export project.
The bank cut to $13.88 from $14.28 its target price for Santos shares, with a 'neutral' rating, telling clients it prefers Woodside to Santos.
"Yet again, GLNG [the Santos gas project] failed to register meaningful 2P reserve growth and 2C contingent resources were down," the bank told clients. "We view 2P+2C as an indication of ultimate resource recovery.
"We think the reserve report provides more cause for concern over the long term cash flow generation of GLNG and hence the return on capital of the project."
Shares are flat at $13.59.
Rising demand for physical gold in China is seen as one of the reasons behind the recent recovery in the precious metal's price, which is currently hovering at $US1320 an ounce.
China overtook India last year as the world's largest buyer of physical gold, according to a report by the World Gold Council. In 2013, Chinese demand for gold bars, coins and jewelry soared 32 per cent to a record high, as China imported 1066 metric tonnes of the precious metal, or more than one third of the 2968 metric tonnes of gold produced globally.
And the strong demand for the precious metal seems to be continuing. The (very bullish) 'In gold we trust' blog has posted a few photos of a veritable gold shopping frenzy in China around lunar new year.
''People are buying gold like groceries,'' the blog quotes a reader. The shopping splurge has ''resulted in an all time Chinese gold demand record in January – which accounted for 246 tonnes,'' the blog says.
Our Fairfax correspondents in China, Phil Wen and Angus Grigg, say the rush for gold isn't necessarily a sign consumers don't trust the banks, as the blog implies. Rather, they say local investors see it as a way of preserving wealth, while property is considered overpriced and the sharemarket has underperformed.
Rush for gold
This chart shows how Sydney property prices have been highly correlated to US monetary expansion.
It reveals "the power of the Fed balance sheet since 2009 and its impact on asset prices," say analysts Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
It's one of a number of exhibits from the investment bank's strategists, who in their note warn investors to get ready for the end of the carry trade in emerging markets as QE is pulled back.
"Carry trade" refers to a strategy where investors borrow cheaply in a low-yielding currency, such as the US dollar, to buy a range of high-yielding assets around the world.
London property is another asset that has moved in line with monetary expansion out of the US, although these also reflect "some spillover EM demand" write the analysts.
Other assets that have been highly correlated to QE according to BoA-ML are: US biotech and tech stocks, EM gaming stocks, and EM internet stocks.
"Could the party go on? Yes, if for some reason – a significant deterioration in the US labour market, or a deflationary shock from China, or any other surprise that could lead to a cessation of the US tapering could prolong this carry trade," write the analysts.
"This is not the house base case. We believe it is better to start preparing for a post-QE world. As one of our smartest clients told us: 'The main theme in the past five years was QE; if that is coming to an end, investments and themes that worked in the past five years must therefore be questioned.' We agree."
The Fed giveth, and the Fed taketh away: Sydney property prices have been highly correlated with QE
Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities rose 9.6 per cent in January 2014 from a year earlier, easing from the previous month's 9.9 per cent rise, according to Reuters calculations based on official data published today.
In month-on-month terms, prices rose 0.4 per cent in January, unchanged from December's rise of 0.4 per cent.
The National Bureau of Statistics said new home prices in Beijing rose 14.7 per cent in January from a year earlier, compared with December's year-on-year increase of 16 per cent. Shanghai prices were up 17.5 per cent in January from a year ago, versus 18.2 per cent annual growth in December.
China's property market began to show signs of stabilising at the end of 2013, with home price rises easing in some major cities as local governments took further tightening measures.
Reuters started its weighted China home price index in January 2011 when the NBS stopped providing nationwide data, only giving home price changes in each of 70 major cities.
Time to take a tour of the region's sharemarkets:
- Japan's Nikkei is up 0.5 per cent
- Hong Kong's Hang Seng is 0.7 per cent lower
- China's Shanghai Composite index is down 1.2 per cent
- Taiwan's TAIEX is down 0.1 per cent
- Korea's KOSPI is 0.2 per cent lower
- Singapore's Straits Times index is up 0.3 per cent
- The Kiwi NZX 50 is 0.5 per cent up
Deutsche Bank has put out one of the more bearish notes on the dollar, predicting a ''benign collapse'' of the currency that could take it into the 60-US cent range by late next year.
In a note this morning, the bank says it expects the RBA to be on hold over 2014, 2015 and in the first half of 2016, but predicts a rate rise in the US around mid-2015, which would help strengthen the greenback.
"The sum of these views presents us with a somewhat dramatic conclusion for AUD/USD. Namely that it could be trading with a '6 handle' – in fact well into the 60's come end-2015," the bank's chief economist Adam Boyton notes:
- Critically, we would view this as a benign 'collapse' in the AUD; not one sparked by a domestic or offshore 'crisis'.
- Of course that won't stop people constructing bearish China scenarios, or continuing to claim that Australian housing is a 'bubble'. (That latter claim is, we think, now entering its tenth year…)
- Our point instead is that a much lower AUD should be considered a 'base case' and reflective of a 'central forecast'; not some 'tail risk' event.
- Indeed, should the world pan out as DB expects, AUD weakness over coming years could ultimately prove to be an important element in managing the headwinds faced by Australia as the mining boom ebbs.
- While AUD/USD to the mid-60s is a long-term view – and is conditional on DB getting the RBA, the Fed and the USD 'right' - this work does suggest that the risks around our current end-2015 AUD/USD forecast of 0.7500 are skewed to the downside.
- Over the near-term, however, (i.e. over the next few months) we remain of the view that the risks to the AUD are to the upside, with the labour market likely to strengthen.
A move by the US Fed to lift rates in mid-2015 could push the Aussie dollar towards 65 US cents.
Australia's biggest companies need to start spending their $71.1 billion cash pile on mergers and acquisitions this year or face the wrath of shareholders, a leading economist says.
The cash pile of almost half of ASX 200 companies grew by 44.8 per cent in 2013, as corporations tightened their belts during an election year, according to data compiled by CommSec.
Despite economic conditions still being soft, with unemployment at its highest in a decade, CommSec chief economist Craig James said now was the time for companies to loosen their purse strings.
Mr James said companies had no reason to hold on to their cash, with business confidence and conditions improving since the federal poll last September as well as consumer confidence ''picking up''.
''While it was a smart move over 2013 to store up the eggs for a rainy day, now businesses have got to be on the look out for opportunities rather than be focus on risk,'' Mr James said.
Mr James said the cash pile was spread across all sectors on the ASX.
As half-year reporting season enters its final week, Mr James said the improvement in economic conditions was ''clearly evident'' in the profit results of 98 companies on the ASX 200.
He said about 60 per cent of companies had lifted dividends, while about 25 per cent had left payouts unchanged.
''But in aggregate, dividends have only lifted 3.9 per cent on a year ago."
Richard O'Brien, the man who once headed up gold juggernaut Newmont and who now spearheads the Boart Longyear recovery, must think running the world's biggest gold company was a walk in the park compared with this drilling services business, Michael West comments:
Last year may have been Boart's annus horribilis, but O'Brien and his team are by no means out of the woods yet. The release of Boart's 2013 earnings this morning paints a sombre picture. Earnings as measured in EBITDA have all but evaporated, coming in at $107 million.
The split between both the halves is of more concern however: $80 million for the half to June 30 and a paltry $27 million for the six months to December 31.
This is a business that, while highly leveraged to any upturn in the mining sector, particularly exploration, may not be around in its present form by the time the cycle turns.
Its debt load remains far too high.
Management is vying, hand over fist, to continue its cost cutting program but underlying market conditions are yet to stabilise.
A few basics: Boart is carrying about $US600 million in gross debt, its annualised EBITDA run-rate applying the most recent half year is $US54 million.
The group has annualised cash interest commitments of $US52 million and its normalised capex requirements - just to maintain the drill rig fleet alone - run between $US50 million and $US75 million.
Net debt has not blown out in the past six months as Boart has undergone an aggressive working capital release. But the problem is that working capital can only be released once. Implemented cost reductions appear to be helping offset pricing declines in the high single digits.
Boart stocks are down 8.2 per cent at 39 cents.
One of the key takeaways on the sideline of the G20 meeting this week was comments by the China's central bank governor that the world's second largest economy would continue to expand about 7 to 8 per cent.
As Westpac senior currency strategist Sean Callow notes, the comments by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) governor Zhou Xiaochuan come after last year's comments from Premier Li Keqiang nominated a slower pace of growth - 7 per cent - for this decade.
"If we are looking in terms of news for the Aussie out of [the G20], China sounding pretty confident on growth and downplaying the concerns on shadow banking is a potentially positive for the Aussie," Mr Callow said.
At the same time, despite the reassurances included in the G20 communique that there would constant communicate between global central banks on the developed countries' pace of reducing their monetary stimulus, analysts said the US Federal Reserve would still continue to cut its bond purchases according to its local demands.
"[Fed chair] Yellen must have made it pretty clear that they are not the central bank for the whole world. Even if they impact the whole world, they don't consider it part of their remit," Mr Callow said.
Shares in Bluescope are surging on the emerging turnaround at the steel maker, which signalled firming domestic demand, along with buoyancy in North America and selected Asian countries, but with China slowing.
Shares are up 8.1 per cent at $6.415, to trade at their highest level since mid-2011.
Despite the optimism, the group was guarded in its forecast, pointing to little further improvement through the balance of the financial year. The December half net profit stood at $3.7 million, a reversal from the loss of $23.8 million a year earlier.
The underlying net profit stood at $49.1 million up from the loss of $1.6 million a year earlier.
Bluescope said the second half underlying net profit after tax "would be similar to the first half'', taking into consideration the usual cyclicality of earnings, maintenance shutdowns and assuming the political crisis in Thailand does not materially impact on earnings there.
After several years of steep insurance price rises that hit families' household budgets, Australians can expect smaller premium increases for their home and motor cover in 2014.
Insurance giant IAG, which owns brands such as NRMA and CGU, flagged premium rate rises of less than 5 per cent for home and motor policies – two of the most common forms of insurance for Australians.
"We're now looking at low, single-digit price increases, if at all," IAG managing director Mike Wilkins told The Australian Financial Review.
"It'll be very low, and that's a function of the input costs that we have had. If you have low inflation in your claims, you don't have to pass it on."
IAG's rival, Suncorp Group, voiced similar sentiments. The company, which owns brands such as AAMI and GIO, noted price rises will slow down this year after a spate of natural disasters such as the Christchurch earthquakes and Queensland floods in 2011 forced double-digit percentage rises on home policies.
Suncorp chief executive Patrick Snowball flagged that the pressure for premiums to rise was easing, thanks to cheaper re-insurance and fewer natural disasters compared with prior years.
"You've got investment markets moving in the right direction, you've got lower natural hazard claims and you've got lower re-insurance costs – of course your GWP [gross written premium – a key measure of insurers' revenue] isn't going to grow as fast," he said.
Here are this morning's roosters and feather dusters.
Shareholders in Transfield Services are crowing as the stock pops 17 per cent after the company announces a lucrative deal with the Department of Immigration to run detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
Beach Energy and BlueScope Steel are up strongly, the first on a big earnings boost, the second on a return to profitability.
Fairfax is another strong performer today on another round of speculation that it would sell its Domain business - this time the reports have put a $500 million price tag on the online real estate classifieds business.
Pacific Brands is down the most.
Best and worst performing stocks in the ASX 200.
Hedge funds are piling into gold and crude oil as prices rally, driving the bullish money wagered by commodity speculators to the highest level since 2011.
Petrol, natural gas and soybeans were other commodities that attracted huge buying during the week that ended February 18, according to the data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The net-long or bullish money held by hedge funds and other speculators across 22 US commodity markets rose to $US119.5 billion in the February 18 week from $US102 billion during the week to February 11, Reuters calculations of the CFTC data show.
That was the highest in bullish commodity wagers held by such money managers since at least August 2011, according to a Reuters database of the CFTC data. The gains also coincide with a larger phenomenon evident in commodity markets over the past year.
Major raw material indexes, and the commodities they track, have steadily decoupled from stock markets and foreign exchange rates over the past 12 months, charting an independent course that ends a five-year period of unprecedented correlation that began in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Australia's biggest insurance broking network, Steadfast Group, has reported an 8 per cent jump in net profits for the half year to December as the company continues to grow its broker numbers.
Steadfast, which made its public debut on the ASX last year, reported a 6.8 per cent rise in revenue.
"We are very pleased with the strong result from Steadfast Group Limited which shows growth in all key financial metrics from top line sales to bottom line profit," chief executive Robert Kelly said.
"The growth of the Steadfast Network is also pleasing with the number of brokers increasing to 285 from 279 over the past six months, and offices throughout Australia and New Zealand expanding to 455 from 430."
One of Steadfast's growth strategies is expansion through acquisitions.
The company bought 60 per cent of underwriting agency Protecsure last year and repurchased the remaining 12.5 per cent of White Outsourcing.
Steadfast will dish out a 1.8¢ per share dividend for the period.
Beach Energy has posted a 160 per cent per cent jump in first-half underlying net profit to $158.1 million, beating some analysts' estimates.
Net income more than tripled to $160.5 million on sales that jumped 62 per cent to $559.5 million thanks to record sales volumes for the six months of 5.6 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Beach declared an interim dividend of 1¢ per cent, as well as a fully franked special dividend of a further 1¢ per share.
Beach confirmed it had increased its stake in Cooper Energy, a smaller Cooper Basin exploration specialist, to 18.4 per cent.
It said it expected Australian dollar oil prices to remain "strong" in the second half, while oil production in the key oil fields in the western part of the Cooper Basin should flow at maximum available capacity.
Beach also flagged the flow testing this June half of five wells in its unconventional exploration play in the Nappamerri Trough plan in the Cooper Basin, as well as the completion of a deal to sell a stake in an exploration venture in Lake Tanganyika.
M2 Group has reaffirmed guidance of profit up to $70 million for the 2014 financial year after delivering a 26 per cent increase in profits during the first half.
The formerly named M2 Telecommunications recorded net profit after tax of $30.9 million for the six months to December 2013, up from $24.7 million in the same period in 2012.
The company forecasts net profit for the current financial year will rise by 48 per cent to between $60 million and $70 million, while delivering record revenue of around $1 billion.
M2 also announced a 15 per cent increase in its interim dividend, up to 11.5¢ per share. The dividend will be paid on April 16.
The telecommunications provider has delivered strong growth over the last five years, fueled by more the $500 million in acquisitions, including rivals Dodo in early 2013 and iPrimus in 2012.
The acquisitions have been funded by the expansion of M2's net debt position, which has now increased to $289.6 million. M2 chief executive Geoff Horth has previously said the company would be moving away from its acquisition strategy to focus on organic growth and pay down debt.
In the June half, M2 added 75,000 services across its fixed line, broadband and energy services, however mobile broadband weighed on the business, down 25,000 services.
The McAleese Group, owner of the troubled Cootes Transport, has reported a first-half loss of $38 million after warning last week it would scrap 540 jobs and restructure its fuel haulage business in the wake of a fatal accident last year.
McAleese told investors last week to expect losses after an accident involving its Cootes fuel tankers in Sydney in October, which killed two people.
Monday's loss included $11.4 million of costs associated with the accident, as well as a $33.3 million impairment on assets after McAleese lost key contracts with long-term customers Shell and BP and its trucks were hauled off the road in NSW and Victoria for safety inspections.
The group has received infringement notices in NSW for 222 registration breaches and 86 vehicle defects.
McAleese's oil and gas business, which includes its fuel-tanker contracts, generated a loss of $40.1 million in the six months ended December 31.
Its specialised transport and lifting division reported underlying EBIT of $19.7 million as increased services to Queensland liquefied natural gas projects countered lower demand for its cranes.
The company's resources division produced EBIT of $14.9 million generated by income received from haulage services provided to iron ore mines.
McAleese reported a 4.9 percent rise in revenue to $389.6 million and did not pay any dividends.
Last week, McAleese announced the resignation of Chris Keast, the former Asciano executive who headed the bulk and liquid transport division.
Power grid owner Spark Infrastructure has forecast a further increase in dividends in 2014 after posting a performance in 2013 in line with guidance.
Statutory net profit after tax fell to $128.4 million from $173.9 million, mostly due to an increase in non-cash income tax expenses. Operating cash flow rose 6.1 per cent to $189.3 million.
Spark, which owns 49 per cent of electricity distributors SA Power Networks in South Australia, and CitiPower and Powercor Australia in Victoria, declared a final distribution of 5.5¢ per share, taking the full-year distribution to shareholders to 11¢ per share, up 4.8 per cent from 2012.
For 2014 Spark directors said distributions should be 11.5¢ per share, and they restated their guidance for 2015 distribution growth of 3-5 per cent a year.
Managing director Rick Frances said the scorecard for Spark was "compelling," with growth in revenues in the operating companies, declining net debt and continuing growth in distributions, in line with prior guidance.
"Our balance sheet has never been more strongly positioned to support growth in the asset companies," he said.
The shares are trading flat.
UBS has crunched the numbers on the earnings season to date and says that altogether it's mostly in line with expectations, but that earnings growth is improving. Here are the key takeaways:
- Australian reporting season is around two-thirds complete. In aggregate terms results have been in line with expectations, notwithstanding a fair degree of stock specific share price volatility. Revisions to UBS and consensus EPS estimates have on average been relatively flat.
- Thematically, big miners, housing-related, discretionary retail and market-linked stocks have performed well, while bank results have been solid and mining services so far have been mixed.
- Overall we see the standout positive results as being delivered by Boral, Breville Group, Domino Pizza Enterprises, Fairfax Media, REA Group and Seek Limited.
- Most disappointing/weakest have come from Bradken, Coca-Cola Amatil, Cochlear, Goodman Fielder, Pacific Brands and UGL Limited.
- In fundamental terms, earnings growth is improving, helped by better revenues (partly due to the lower A$) and moderately higher margins (due in large part to cost cutting).
- We see minimal risk to FY14 earnings growth in an aggregate sense (+14%y/y for the market and +9%y/y for the market ex resources).
Caltex Australia has reported a 27.5 per cent fall in full-year profit to $332 million, in line with its December forecast of $320 million-$340 million.
Bottom line net income, which includes the impact of changing oil prices on the value of crude oil stockpiles, surged more than nine-fold to $530 million from $57 million the previous year, when Caltex took $309 million of charges connected with the conversion of its Kurnell refinery in Sydney to an import terminal.
Caltex's underlying earnings were lifted by growth in fuels marketing thanks to rising demand for premium fuels. But the refining business dragged down earnings, posting losses of $171 million and supporting the company's decision to rationalise its refining business.
"Whilst marketing has delivered another record result, refining and supply losses have been driven by the negative impact of key externalities, including the significant deterioration in the Caltex refiner margin during the second half and a continuing fall in the Australian dollar," chief executive Julian Segal said.
"This has led to the lower full year result."
Caltex declared a final dividend of 17¢ per share, taking the full year payout to 34¢ per share. The full-year dividend compares with a total payout of 40¢ per share for 2012 and reflects the company's decision to reduce the payout ratio while it is investing in the conversion of the Kurnell refinery.
The refinery is on track to be converted into an import terminal by the fourth quarter of this year, Caltex said.
The stock is trading 1.6 per cent higher.
Shares in Transfield Services are up 14 per cent this morning after the company announced that is had received a "letter of intent" from the federal government Department of Immigration that it would be awarded a $1.2 billion contract to provide "garrison and welfare services" at the Nauru and Manus detention centres.
The company said in a statement that it had already started the "mobilisation and transition process", with a formal handover from the beginning of March.
David Jones is preparing to start talks with rival department store chain Myer to better understand a $3 billion merger proposal, in a sign David Jones could be more open to discussions following this month's board purge.
It is believed David Jones will engage with Myer in the next fortnight but remains convinced the original Myer proposal made in October does not properly value the Sydney-based retailer.
Sources close to David Jones said it was not opposed to a deal in principle and had run the numbers on a merger or acquisition of Myer almost every year in recent times as part of its strategic planning and review processes.
But the David Jones board and its advisers are waiting to see evidence from Myer that it is prepared to offer a price they believe reflects DJs' true value.
''The company is not against a merger as long as it's on the right terms - it always comes down to price,'' one Myer insider said.
Share have opened a tad higher, with the ASX 200 up 2 points in early trading to 5440.7, despite a number of large companies being sold off as they trade ex-dividend.
Telstra is down 3.2 per cent, Wesfarmers 2.2 per cent, Woodside 2.3 per cent, while Suncorp is 3.1 per cent lower.
Pushing the market higher is BHP, which has added 0.6 per cent, with Rio also 0.8 per cent and Fortescue 1.7 per cent higher. Woolworths has added 0.7 per cent. ANZ is the best of the big banks, up 0.8 per cent.
One of the big movers this morning is BlueScope Steel, which announced its return to the black this morning; the stock has jumped 8.2 per cent.
Coal miner New Hope Corp has provided guidance that net profit for the half year ended 31 January is anticipated to be within the range of $21 million to $23 million when the company reports on March 25.
"The result for the current period has been [affected] by continuing weakness in thermal coal prices and a relatively high Australian dollar," said the company in a statement.
"Despite the difficult coal market conditions, management remain focused on maximising long term shareholder value by continuing to deliver prudent cost reductions and operational efficiencies," the company said.
Fairfax Media's $200 million radio merger talks with John Singleton's Macquarie Radio Network have collapsed after it became clear that star Macquarie presenters Alan Jones and Ray Hadley were not prepared to be part of the proposed deal.
It is the second breakdown in two years of talks over a combination of Fairfax's top-rated Melbourne station 3AW with Macquarie Radio's 2GB, the home of Jones and Hadley.
The joint venture would have controlled leading talkback stations in all the mainland capital cities except Adelaide, making it a stronger proposition to sell to advertisers, and would have had earnings of $32 million before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
It is understood that Jones and Hadley - Macquarie's top talent - could not be persuaded to become part of a joint venture controlled by Fairfax.
In addition to the announcement of a partnership with Origin Energy (see below), Senex has posted a 9 per cent increase in first-half net profit to $25.6 million.
Underlying profit climbed 37 per cent to $31.8 million on revenue that climbed 14 per cent to a record $88.3 million.
Mr Davies said the improved profits stemmed from "solid" production and high Australian-dollar oil prices.
He said production should increase in the second half of fiscal 2014 after successful drilling across its oil fields in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin.
Aspen Group has reported an 8.4 per cent rise in revenue to $15.9 million for the half-year ended December 2013.
But it was a tough six months for the real estate management and development company, which recorded a statutory loss of $70.2 million, compared with 23.5 million in the first half of the year, thanks primarily to impairments and losses on assets sold or held for sale.
The group's operating profit fell 21.8 per cent to $8.28 million. Net tangible assets per security fell to $1.65, compared with $2.20 in June 2013.
"Our focus since August last year has been on executing a transition of the business to be focused on "value for money" accommodation. Progress on this transition has not been without its challenges," Aspen chief executive officer Clem Salwin said in a statement.
"In particular, we have experienced the impact of very difficult market conditions arising from the much weaker capital expenditure cycle in the resources sector. This has resulted in recognition of impairments to the carrying value of some of our assets. We have also taken additional impairments as we progress our sales programme of assets."
NIB has outpaced its health insurance peers to grow its number of members at a faster rate than the industry, contributing to a 9 per cent rise in interim net profit to $39.7 million that has beat analysts expectations.
The company said it was able to fight against competitive pressures and "unhelpful regulatory changes" to grow its policyholder base by 2.6 per cent in the six months ended December 31, compared to an industry-wide growth rate of 1.1 per cent.
Chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon said the company was on track to delivery policyholder growth of 4 per cent over the full year, but warned the company's underwriting profitability was under pressure.
"With ongoing overall healthcare claims inflation of between 6 per cent to 7 per cent, escalating cost shifting by public hospitals and an increasingly counter productive system of risk equalisation, our underwriting margins continue to be under constant pressure," Mr Fitzgibbon said in a statement on Monday.
The company declared an interim dividend of 5.25¢, which was 0.25¢ higher than the prior period. The dividend will be paid on April 4.
The company said the government's approval of a 7.99 per cent premium increase, which was the largest received by any private health insurer and will come into effect on April 1, would help to maintain its net margin within the target range of 5 to 5.5 per cent.
Origin Energy has made a significant commitment to join Senex Energy in an unconventional gas exploration program in the Cooper Basin, which will see a total $252 million in investment.
Origin will invest $97 million in exploration in two blocks that will test various unconventional gas plays, including tight sands, shale and deep coal seams. The investment will earn it a 40 per cent stake in one area, and 30 per cent in a second region.
Senex is to remain as operator of both areas, while Origin will take the lead on the technical work program. The larger company would be able to take over as operator after the second stage of work.
The two-stage work program will involve drilling at least 15 wells as well as substantial seismic work.
Senex managing director Ian Davies said Origin was the ideal partner to join it in investigating the Cooper Basin's significant potential for unconventional gas.
"Origin has built an unrivaled position in the eastern Australian gas market and has access to international markets through its APLNG export facilities in Gladstone," Mr Davies said in a separate statement.
Drilling services firm Boart Longyear has posted a full-year loss for 2013, due to continuing weakness in the global mining industry.
Net loss after tax, excluding one-off charges, was $US94 million for the year ended December 2013, compared with a net profit of $US116 million a year earlier. That compared with the average analyst forecast of a net loss of $US96.34 million.
Also at the G20 meeting, China led developing markets in hitting back at the US as India and South Africa kept up pressure on the Federal Reserve to consider the spillover effects of tapering its bond-buying program.
After Treasury Secretary Jack Lew questioned the pace of China's economic opening, Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei hit back, saying the US recovery had been buoyed by monetary policy rather than structural changes.
Lou said while developed countries now seem very positive about their growth prospects, "that may not be totally true".
"Take the US for example: Its recovery is being helped by monetary policy and not much by structural adjustment," he said. "They have always been saying that China should boost its consumption ratio and the US should boost its investment ratio, but that structural change is not happening in the United States."
Indian central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said countries should ensure tightening doesn't upset the global economy and is done in a measured way.
"The tension is likely to continue," says Nomura chief economist Tomo Kinoshita. "China is on the side of the emerging economies rather than on the side of the advanced economies."
Engineering group Monadelphous has announced it has been awarded a construction contract worth around $680 million for mechanical works at the Ichthys project onshore LNG facilities in Darwin.
The shares had been placed in a trading halt on Friday afternoon pending the announcement.
Work will commence immediately and is expected to be completed by mid-2016, the company said in this morning's statement to the ASX.
The Ichthys LNG project is a project to develop the Ichthys gas and condensate field discovered in the Browse Basin approximately 220 kilometres off the north-west coast of Western Australia.
It is a joint venture between INPEX group companies, major partner Total and the Australian subsidiaries of Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Chubu Electric Power and Toho Gas.
In case you missed it, the G20 central bankers and finance ministers met for a pow-wow in Sydney over the weekend. Strengthening global growth was high on the agenda, as were emerging market worries about the effects of the Fed's cutback in stimulus.
But reporters also used the opportunity to ask the respective central bankers about the problems they face at home, and one of the most pressing ones for Europeans is the threat of deflation in the eurozone.
ECB president Mario Draghi said policy makers are ready to add to stimulus if the outlook for prices deteriorates, but he denied that there are currently signs of deflation in the euro area:
- We don't have any evidence of people postponing their expenditure plans with a view to buying the same thing at lower prices, in other words we don't see what is defined to be deflation.
- We are aware of the risks. The Governing Council is willing and ready to take any action in case these risks were to gain strength.
Economists are divided over whether the Frankfurt-based ECB will increase stimulus to counter the risk of deflation after euro-area inflation slowed to 0.7 per cent in January, less than half the bank's 2 per cent target.
Draghi said the council will have "the full set of information needed for deciding whether to act or not" by its next policy meeting on March 6 in Frankfurt, when it will publish a 2016 inflation projection for the first time.
G20 group photograph of the g20 finance delegates Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Steelmaker BlueScope has forecast little change in second half earnings after it reported profits only slightly better than break even in the December half.
The December half net profit stood at $3.7 million, a reversal from the loss of $23.8 million a year earlier. Underlying net profit stood at $49.1 million, up from a loss of $1.6 million a year earlier.
Bluescope said the second half underlying net profit after tax "would be similar to the first half, taking into consideration the usual cyclicality of earnings, maintenance shutdowns and assuming the political crisis in Thailand does not materially impact on earnings there".
The earnings turnaround in the December partly benefited from higher volumes and improved margins, it said.
There are many swirling breezes at present and it may be hard for investors to determine where things are at present, but central banks remain the key, writes Perpetual's head of investment market research Matt Sherwood.
[China's central bank] is reducing liquidity to reduce credit growth and improve poor lending standards; the Bank of Japan is doing the opposite; whereas a couple of US Fed [governors] talking about hiking rates later this year is nothing new.
I think that the first half of this year is likely to be a bit softer in terms of activity growth due to unfavourable trends in the global inventory cycle, global energy prices and the US housing recovery, which has paused due to the US Fed's monetary adjustment.
Yet global investors seem to be over-emphasising the impact of a US weather and Chinese New Year and rallying even though if the former was the entire cause of the slowdown, earnings growth would still be impinged, at least temporarily.
At this time, investors need to continue their focus and hunt for attractively valued quality companies, in the knowledge that starting valuations are a much more important driver of long-run returns than earnings.
With volatility likely to continue and growth strengthen in the second half of the year, any short-term price decline could be used as a better entry point for investors, yet they need to continue to look for strong balance sheets and robust operating models as they provide downside protection and upside potential.
In a quiet start to the earnings week, here are some of the larger companies reporting today:
- Beach Energy
- BlueScope Steel
- Boart Longyear
- Caltex Australia
- M2 Group
- NIB Holdings
- Senex Energy
- Sky Network
- Spark Infrastructure
The following companies are trading ex-dividend:
- Suncorp
- Telstra
- Wesfarmers
- Woodside
Local stocks are poised to little changed as investors search for new buy catalysts.
Here's what you need2know:
- SPI futures down 1 point at 5413 on Monday morning
- AUD at 89.81 US cents at about 9.10am AEST on Monday
- On Wall St, S&P 500 -0.19%, Dow -0.19%, Nasdaq -0.1%
- In Europe, Euro Stoxx 50 +0.32%, FTSE100 +0.37%, CAC +0.59%, DAX +0.4%
- Spot gold gains $US1.28 to $US1324.25 an ounce at 5pm in New York on Friday
- Brent oil down 50 US cents to $US109.80 per barrel at 5pm in New York on Friday
- Iron ore little changed, down US0.54c to $US122.40
Good morning and welcome to the Markets Live blog for Monday.
Your editors today are Jens Meyer and Patrick Commins.
This blog is not intended as investment advice.
BusinessDay with wires.


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Super smooth stick with a nice hit of coffee that doesn t overpower the taste of the tobacco. The draw on this thing BLEW my mind. It was smoother than any cigar that I ve had yet. The wrapper was a touch on the weak side towards the rear in one spot, but the rest had perfect construction. Highly recommended, and I ll be ordering a few more!
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quote:I'd say I'm a bit Antimadridista, although one does not know where their future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. t seems to me that it is an arrogant club with how the players behave. Without humility you cannot get anywhere.
quote:Does that make Xabi expendable right now?
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