Weekly Top Ten News Stories

As the spot uranium price fell again last week, Morgan Stanley questioned the role of nuclear power in the future global energy mix.

Weekly Broker Wrap: consumer stocks; automotive retailers; energy; health insurers; and lithium stocks.

FNArena's Reporting Season Monitor keeps track of the previous session's corporate earnings result releases, including broker views, ratings and target price changes and beat/miss assessments.

In this week's Weekly Insights (this is part two): -Extra Service -The Correction We Had To Have -RBA: Waiting For Godot? -Conviction Calls: Citi, Morgans, Ord Minnett, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Canaccord Genuity -February 2

Michael Gable of Fairmont Equities notes National Bank is playing to a technical script, and represents a buying opportunity.

Are banks in Australia (finally) a good buy? An update on the pros and cons that lay ahead for the sector in the coming months.

AGL Energy's wholesale electricity division was the beneficiary of higher gas and electricity prices in the first half but this was was marred by a sharp decline in consumer segment earnings.

Brokers suspect downside risk to Commonwealth Bank's financial performance going forward, as mortgage re-pricing that has underpinned favourable revenue trends will not be sustained.

Two new acquisitions will help diversify and improve growth prospects for Magellan Financial. Brokers welcome the news but retain lingering concerns regarding the renewed volatility in financial markets.

Brokers have hurriedly reviewed forecasts as Praemium has significantly increased sales and marketing expenses to take advantage of the structural shift occurring in Australia's investment platform and advice industry.