08 July 2009 | Brendon Lau | The Australian Financial Review
Dividend cuts and asset write-downs are expected to feature heavily in the full-year reporting.
08 July 2009 | David Ciampa and Peter Wells | The Australian Financial Review
As one of the most anticipated profit reporting seasons in decades draws near, The Australian Financial Review's David Ciampa and Peter Wells ask prominent market participants for their opinions on the state of play in the marketplace.
07 July 2009 | The Australian Financial Review - Online
What the experts say about the profit outlook -- full text.
08 July 2009 | Jo Clarke | The Australian Financial Review
The market has been so well primed for the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis that investors hope for a few pleasant surprises from the miners this profit season.
08 July 2009 | Paul Garvey | The Australian Financial Review
Expect more nasty surprises than pleasant ones among industrial companies this reporting season. But despite that bleak outlook, there are still companies that should throw up some comparatively positive results.
08 July 2009 | Glenn Mumford | The Australian Financial Review
Prepare to be surprised. Not by a profit season delivering much in the way of unexpected upside - it probably won't. This time around the surprise should come from the investor equanimity that greets the rollout of an unflattering, bottom-of-the-cycle, earnings outcome.
08 July 2009 | Shannon Nicholls | The Australian Financial Review
Plain ugly is how analysts are describing the profit outlook for the beleaguered property sector, which is readying itself for another round of cuts to asset valuations and distribution payments.
08 July 2009 | Jane Searle | The Australian Financial Review
Bad and doubtful debts are expected to cause grief for big banks in the coming financial year, and market pundits are forecasting profit falls among the Big Four until September 2010, with the bad debt cycle forecast to peak sometime next year.
