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In January of 2016 Fortescue Metals (FMG) had a low of $1.34 spending much of the month trading around $1.50. Of the twenty analysts that covered the stock on...

Volatility was back in town today thanks to Mr Trumps barrage of tweets over the weekend and subsequent escalation of the China – US trade tussle. US Futures opened...

If you had bought CSL when it floated in 1994, a little over a decade later you were sitting on a ten-bagger. Most investors would have been happy to cash in then, but...

The market crept higher to round out a reasonable week of trading. There wasn’t a great deal of direction given from overseas markets with many investors watching for...

Moving to a new country is no easy task, but doing it while managing a portfolio, completing the exams for the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and dealing...

As the reporting season avalanche gathers pace, a few company reports have really caught our eye. Here’s our take on reports by BHP, a2 Milk, Beacon Lighting and...

Today I argue that since we blindsided participants by first putting the likelihood of the Reserve Bank of Australia launching quantitative easing (QE) back in May,...

BHP’s chief Andrew Mackenzie says he’s excited by the company’s “new copper opportunity” near Olympic Dam. In truth, it’s actually an old WMC discovery. But there’s no...

Today Qantas announced its annual results. Despite significantly increasing fuel costs to the tune of $614m, Qantas managed to maintain a constant 55c statutory EPS...

Welcome to the FNArena Reporting Season Monitor for the August result season 2019. The Monitor reports ratings and consensus price target changes, along with brief...

Our investment view on SCG is that it owns the best retail portfolio in Australia and New Zealand in a sector that continues to have higher barriers to entry (for...

We recap some of the profit reporting season highlights including Netwealth, Westpac Group and Senex Energy. Full reports are available below via links.Netwealth...

A strong rebound for local stocks today with broad-based buying across all sectors despite a slightly weaker than expected result from BHP. Energy was the standout...

Seasonality of payouts, an over-reliance on the financials and resources sectors, and a lack of dividend growth means that Australian investors would benefit from...

ANZ and Westpac have just reported deep operational losses, unemployment has leapt to 10% and The State Banks of Victoria and South Australia have both collapsed. The...

A big week of reporting / market turmoil as the newspapers would call it with global equity markets taking a hit. Concerns around an inverted yield curve, more Trump...

Today I argue that Magellan will revolutionise the LIC/LIT market with its shift to a commission-free distribution model that we had long advocated and which is...

We recap some of the profit reporting season highlights from the past week Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Suncorp Group, Insurance Australia Group, Bendigo and...

Following this week's global share-market rout, Saxo Capital Markets Australia Market Strategist Eleanor Creagh said that global markets remain vulnerable to a...

More EVs and more nickel in each of them will drive nickel demand through the roof, says the head of BHP’s Nickel West arm. His forecast is great news for those...

The price action of a company on the day it reports is a strong indicator of where investor expectations were sitting. Strong share price performance on the day of...

Telstra's earnings downgrade cycle has turned. Following several periods of lowering guidance and missing expectations, TLS has delivered a full year of earnings at...

Welcome to the FNArena Reporting Season Monitor for the August result season 2019. The Monitor reports ratings and consensus price target changes, along with brief...

An interesting session played out locally following a strong rebound from US stocks overnight, the Dow Jones adding +372pts underpinning our futures which traded...