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Sentiment and emotion play a huge role in the short-term pricing of equity markets, however the way to compound returns in equities over the long run is to invest with...

Plus, Red 5 poised for promotion to the next league of ASX gold producers. And Macquarie sees short-term bullish catalysts for commodities.Stavely Minerals (ASX:SVY)...

The best of the session was seen early with the market opening marginally higher this morning up +10pts at one stage before sellers stepped in and the market grinded...

Retail is over, or that’s what the media would have us believe. Amazon and online retailers, we are told, are heading towards total dominance over our shopping habits....

Following from my wire yesterday looking at the ten most tipped stocks from our survey, this second list below represents the next ten stocks (i.e. in positions...

At the start of the year, we asked Livewire readers for a stock idea as part of our annual investor survey. With over 2500 responses, many stocks were tipped multiple...

At face value, the August reporting season in Australia was disappointing, but not quite negative enough to spook investors into a general flight out of Australian...

Today I argue that in response to the 2008 crisis central banks and treasuries have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Unable to tolerate the pain associated with...

Few things get resource investors' hearts racing like a porphyry discovery, as Alkane's soaring share price showed this week. Now the spotlight turns to Alkane’s...

A fairly muted session in Australia today with the market briefly trading in the black early on before the market trickled lower into the close. Energy stocks hardest...

What defines ‘good’, ‘bad’, and ‘ugly’ in Australia’s equity markets today? Each of these three panellists from this year’s Livewire Live has a decidedly different...

Oh dear!The stronger-for-longer lithium story is not exactly panning out as such, with a global oversupply emerging and the upbeat blue sky stories supplanted by...

An interesting day for local stocks with the energy sector the clear standout thanks to a spike in the Oil price, Futures trading +9.7% at time of writing underpinning...

With reporting season over, the bull market in growth equities rolls on. The “expectations game” that has long permeated US equities has firmly taken root in Australia...

This weekend I write that the ECB's decision to start buying bonds again to reduce the long-term cost of capital (aka QE)---coupled with the Fed cutting in a few...

Looking at the top 20 this Sept / Oct vs last year, we can see that they’re paying +$1.94b more than the Top 20 last year – an increase of +12.6%. So, the increase we...

Saracen seen as a shining example of the silver lining in recent gold sell-off. Plus, a raft of juniors are on the potentially-lucrative porphyry trail, including Hot...

All investing strategies need to evolve with market conditions, and in particular to the current stage of the cycle. So in constructing an income portfolio to perform...

Overall economic growth and lower interest rates remain supportive for equities but the outlook, particularly this late in the business cycle, is becoming more...

It was a somewhat unique situation to be interviewing a former colleague when I sat down with Marcus Bogdan, CIO at Blackmore Capital recently. So, I have been across...

A lot has happened in Australian banking in the last 6-12 months. The Royal Commission’s final findings were released while the regulators have toyed with higher...

It’s hard not to feel a little like Guy Montag in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at present. The world has a decidedly dystopian tinge as negative interest rates and...

In Australia we’re fortunate to have some very talented women in funds management. Catherine Allfrey is one of them. After a chance encounter at a Wesfarmers event in...

Only a decade removed from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), it may seem a bit counterintuitive to label banks as more of a ‘cushion’ than a ‘cause’ of the next...