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Local market finished negative with Asian markets as the bank ratings downgrade hit home despite positive US markets. The best performing sectors were Retail,...

Yesterday evening Moody’s downgraded Australia’s “big 4” banks, plus 8 smaller ones, from Aa2 to Aa3 on their long-term rating, while leaving their short-term rating...

Amazon on Friday announced the US $14b acquisition of Wholefoods in the US, which has correctly been understood by the Australian market as a reason for the share...

Livewire reached out to a group of small cap portfolio managers to ask for a stock that has been unduly sold down as part of a sector de-rating, rather than company...

Alternative managers are continuing to see increased interest from traditionally conservative clients and it seems infrastructure is the hottest ticket in town. With...

Kairos Minerals has recently commenced a 6,500m aircore drilling programme at its Roe Hills Gold/Nickel Project, following up on very promising results from an initial...

Local market bounced hard as global investors jumped on our banks on the currency bet going into US Fed meeting. The market is worried that US Fiscal delays and patchy...

As we consider different areas to allocate funds into the current market weakness potential tax loss selling should definitely be considered as June slowly evolves....

When we said yesterday that considering June’s seasonal weakness investors should keep some ammunition for buying opportunities later in the month, we didn’t imagine...

Returning from the Berkshire Hathaway AGM, Nathan Bell and the team from Peters MacGregor, took the opportunity to take the pulse of the US markets. Reporting on their...

Livewire caught up with Giselle Roux, CIO at Escala Partners, to discuss the implications of elevated housing valuations on the wider economy. These include the effect...

SPOT GOLD PRICE (US$1278) - a New York close above US$1290 if it occurs would target a rally to US$1340. The spot gold price originally generated a technical sell...