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The financials index has been belted over 5% since bank reporting started last week. The market’s correct anticipation of the budget’s bank levy has been a key driver...

Over the last two weeks, investors had a wild ride following bank reporting season. In addition, in last night’s Budget a surprise levy of 0.06% on the liabilities of...

Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison (aka 'The Bash Brothers') dished out some crunching hits on the banks. A bit of fun in amongst all the Budget analysis and debate! ...

To cut through the deafening noise around this week’s Federal budget, Livewire has asked four of Australia’s leading Economists to boil the budget down to its single...

The Economist this week makes reference to data as the new oil – the fuel on which the new economy runs. Last week, we made observations about knowledge networks, with...

Interim reports for the major banks have concluded and the wires are awash with Budget commentary. Sentiment towards the Budget seems largely positive, however, it...

Local market fell on the open on weaker commodities before recovering and then running into bank tax rumours taking it down again. Commodities remain weak…China hasn’t...

Local market fell from the start after weak ANZ market update before making a recovery in the back end of the trading day to close flat. Property, Energy and Staples...

The ASX200 index is rated as a technical hold. Currently there is no sign of a (new) technical top formation emerging. Major resistance is located at 5996, which was...

With bank reporting kicking off as we enter the seasonally weak month of May, I’ve looked at data back to 2000 to highlight some of the best and worst sectors. ANZ and...