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It was a solid session for the ASX, finishing higher for a fifth straight session and again knocking on the door of new all-time highs. Most love was directed to the...

Global markets had a rough time in the first quarter of 2022. It's no surprise, really - inflation is taking off, central banks are tightening or about to, and war is...

The local market had a strong rally early in the session, coming to within 8 points of the all-time high before 11AM. Strength in the financials sector early helped...

Nicola isn't exactly a hard nut to crack. She's wonderfully warm and genuine, openly sharing her story with this writer as if we had been friends for decades (and...

It was a solid session for local stocks today, albeit a very quiet one with the market rallying early before treading water late in the day. Minutes from the RBA’s...

Transitory was the macro word of 2021 as the Federal Reserve and other major central banks attempted to calm markets about the pace of inflation. Investors fought...

The great unwind has begun, and together with two successive supply shocks caused by a pandemic and then war, it has spawned the great chaos. After major central bank...

Life is often more unpredictable than we expect. Fires, pandemics, wars, and floods haven’t been ‘base-case’ scenarios for any supposedly ‘successful’ macro...

While sleep - or lack thereof - was already a major talking point in Australia before the pandemic (the government funded a national sleep study in 2018), things...

The market traded in a reasonably tight range for much of the session and importantly held firmly above 7500. Four sectors managed gains of more than 1% with tech...

Well, folks, we've made it - and by that, I mean through the first quarter of 2022. It's been tough, tiresome, and damn it, sometimes terrifying, but at least the...

Elon Musk recently announced (via Twitter, of course) that he is considering getting into lithium mining to bring down prices. He needn’t bother. It’s a commodity...

Most stocks rallied today, pushing the index higher as we edge towards the four day Easter break. Materials and Energy did the heavy lifting, more than offsetting...

BHP is a long-time favourite among SMSF investors and it's easy to see why. The mining giant delivered a strong and growing dividend and distributes a valuable amount...

The start of 2022 has seen the most unexpected black swan of all emerge – a war in eastern Europe. The Russian invasion singlehandedly pushed crude oil prices to...

The market opened higher this morning however petered out into the afternoon as the resource stocks gave back early gains, particularly in Iron Ore & Lithium. The IT...

Another day, another skyrocketing commodity. In recent months, various commodity-related stocks have taken off, while the S&P GSCI - the index which tracks the global...

Sometimes it's what we cannot see that is most important. Now that global equity indices have staged a strong comeback rally throughout March, a lot of head scratching...

In case you missed it, Livewire's Ally Selby was joined by WaveStone Capital's Raaz Bhuyan and Perpetual's James Rutledge for a jam-packed episode of Buy Hold Sell....

It's not the easiest time to be an investor, let alone one nearing retirement. After all, investors have to generate income growth to offset the impact of inflation,...

It's fair to say growth investors have not had a great 2022. But for contrarian investors, those who purposefully go against the market to buy what others are selling...

The market was storming higher this morning to hit a 7573 peak before the RBA implied they had lost patience and would move sooner on rate hikes, another credibility...

When you think of the ASX, dividends, miners and banks are likely some of the first words that come to mind. Dividends are a key driver for Australia's position as the...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrown up a plethora of issues for European and global markets. This is mainly because Russia, like Australia, is heavily endowed...