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‘A good part of the capital which had so lavishly employed in the import trade, they are gradually diverting into that safer and infinitely more productive channel...

Multiple takeover bids was not enough to get the ASX higher today with weakness across the banking sector following NABs result yesterday & a pullback in the...

If you dream it, ETF issuers can build it. It’s a far cry from the humble days of simple S&P/ASX200 or S&P500 trackers. The Australian ETF market really hit its...

Keith Richards is probably a walking advertisement for the toll which plenty of hard living exacts. Evidence is mounting that decades of hard living for the global...

The ASX200 nudged above 7000 again today, only to close a whisker below as we continued to outperform the Asian region. More weakness in the $US overnight...

It is a truism of markets that value outperforms growth over the long term. Sure, growth stocks have enjoyed their time in the sun in recent years, pumped up by a...

A reminder that Market Matters produces a midday podcast – Markets @ Midday – that covers all you need to know at lunchtime - generally hosted by Portfolio Manager...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

We’ve recently seen the running of the race that stops the nation, the Melbourne Cup. If ever there was an event where the ‘inside running’ could provide a material...

Futures were pricing a significantly higher open (~90pts) this morning and what we got was fairly lacklustre, particularly outside the commodity complex....

Stock picking is a fine art. Before you invest in a particular company, chances are you have done a healthy amount of research into it. From the macro factors that...

The Electric Vehicle (EV) metal theme has performed particularly well over the last four months in spite of the prevailing mood of doom and gloom in this bear...

Equity investors are facing land mines everywhere, and dare I say it, bear market conditions! From Zuckerberg’s long-shot bet on the metaverse, the post-COVID...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

The local market started on the back foot today, but managed to trend higher into the weekend. The banks battled back off their lows but the index was mostly...

Everyone loves a bargain. It's why Boxing Day sales are such a riot, or why my car salesman father tries to haggle nearly everything he buys. But as in life, sometimes...

Some mixed messages came from the US Federal Reserve overnight as they raised interest rates by 0.75% as expected. Ultimately, they said rates will likely end higher...

Recently, Australian cybersecurity has copped a thrashing. It started with the Optus data breach in September. Over 9.8 million Australians (including myself)...

Big Tech on Wall Street has fallen off its pedestal in October with share price weakness following the release of Q3 financials.For some, like Meta (formerly known as...

The ASX consolidated recent gains today, chopping around in a tight trading range having pushed above 7000 early on - ultimately a solid session given the 113pts we...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

The market got the bit between its teeth this morning and rallied nicely from around 11am up ~65points before the RBA decision at 2.30pm where the board raised the...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

A choppy but overall positive day to kick off the new week and end the bullish month of October that saw the ASX200 up 6% led by a 12% rise by the Financial Sector....