Weekly Top Ten News Stories – 17 January 2020

Rising tensions between the USA and Iran have not prevented spot uranium from sliding further in early 2020.

Weekly update on stockbroker recommendation, target price, and earnings forecast changes.

Analysis of last year's AGM season shows boards in Australia are receiving less rejections from shareholders, but larger sized companies receive more plus climate change is now firmly in focus.

First update for the new calendar year and already plenty of material to combine. Which is why Part Two will follow suit on Friday morning (tomorrow).

Claims and property losses in the 2019/2020 bushfires so far have now exceeded the Black Saturday event in 2009 and brokers assess the risks to the outlook for Suncorp, and fellow insurers.

Early data signals the critical Christmas shopping season of 2019 was subdued and, given the devastation from Australia's widespread bushfires, weakness is likely to continue into January.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities producers' upcoming quarterly production reports. Featuring are bulks; copper; aluminium/alumina; nickel; and gold.

Evolution Mining has forewarned of a downgrade to reserves and resources at its Mount Carlton gold mine while highlighting the need to seek alternative water supplies at Cowal.

Pitt Street Research sees a Promising Outlook For Prospect Resources, driven by better DFS and funding deal.

Brokers suspect fund managers will endure another lacklustre performance over 2020 with Pendal Group indicating only marginal gains in FUM in the first quarter amid subdued performance fees.