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The local market opened with strength this morning with buying in all key sectors, obviously spurred on by the takeover of Westfield, however we also saw good leads...

A total of 46 of the ASX Top 50 companies issue bonds. This isn’t surprising as they are large international companies trading in foreign markets and require multiple...

BT Investment Management’s Crispin Murray, Vimal Gor, Peter Davidson and Ashley Pittard provide a summary of the key drivers of investment markets in 2017 and share...

Finally, a day that saw the market close near the highs of the session and importantly, above the 6000 mark for the first time in around 12 days. Some good buying in...

A positive start to the new trading week although gains were only small relative to the leads from overseas markets on Friday – perhaps traders were focussed on...

The market had another crack at the 6000 level today, but once again sellers stepped up and pushed the index lower into the close. No real bid tone in US Futures...

Tuesday’s underwhelming launch of the Amazon retail platform triggered big jumps in retail stocks led by JB HiFi, which gained 6.7%. Was the previous sell-down...

A very interesting day for some sectors on the Aussie bourse with the much anticipated launch of the Amazon retail platform in Australia met with very strong buying...

In our new 'Christmas Cracker' series, each morning through to Christmas we will bring you a top insight from one of our contributors. These will be diverse and could...

Despite S&P Futures in the US trading up +16pts (+0.65%) the Aussie market struggled to hold above water today with the banks providing most drag – the big 4...

The best of it was seen early on today with the market opening strong before sellers came over the top from around midday. A move of +20pts (0.33%) locally today is a...

We kept notes for you yesterday at the Future Generation Investment Forum, where a dozen of the best Australian and global fund managers each presented an investment...

The market opened with a flurry of selling this morning as news broke that the banks had collectively written to the PM somewhat surprisingly requesting an in-depth...

Last week in part one of Atlas’ surprisingly popular series on financial statement trickery - Earnings Chicanery, we looked at the three financial statements and some...

Another day that saw buyers happy to bid up stocks fairly strongly in early trade before sellers took hold around midday – and the index drifted lower throughout the...

BHP has been an underperformer for over a decade now. Troy Angus, Head of Large Caps at Paradice Investment Management, says this has largely been due to “hideously...