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Are risk markets entering a correction zone?

The market adage of January being the barometer for equity market performance for the year will always get tossed around as investors outline their roadmap for the...
Chris Manuell, CMT
Chris Manuell, CMT
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Macro

China's cunning plan to become integral to Western growth

'Chris Johnson is the best expert on China the CIA has ever had'. That's the view of former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell. And if Johnson's views on his country...
Nicholas Plessas
Nicholas Plessas
Livewire
Macro

COVID-driven structural trends

The spread of COVID-19 across the world had a dramatic impact on everyday life for many people, as governments imposed restrictions on their citizens to limit the rate...
David Bruty
Escala Partners
Macro

4 key macro signals and how to position your portfolio

Alas, the start to 2021 is not as ‘fresh’ as we would have liked. We have not exited 2020 with a clean slate. A renewed global surge in the pandemic through December...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Jeremy Grantham's four signs of an upcoming crash

When Jeremy Grantham speaks, the market listens, and he believes the market is on the brink of a catastrophic downturn that will rival the 1929 Wall Street crash....
Mia Kwok
Mia Kwok
Livewire Markets
Macro

RBA delivers $100 billion of QE 2.0, as we forecast last week...

As we predicted last week with our detailed QE 2.0 paper (see here), the RBA today surprised the market by announcing another $100 billion of Commonwealth and State...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Is this bull market just getting started?

Following a year of stark contrasts, many investors are left scratching their heads. By traditional definitions, the long bull market that started in 2009, finally...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Macro

Why Gamestop is so significant for markets

A signpost for a permanent change in the operations of financial markets, or is it just another footnote in the absurd history of social media's growing influence on...
Nick Morton
Nick Morton
Resonant Asset Management
Macro

Aussie dollar would be much higher were it not for RBA

In the AFR today I write that while we are very bullish on Antipodean growth over the next 12 months, there is certainly a lot to be anxious about at present. We have...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

It's hard not to laugh when you see GME Resources

It's hard not to laugh when you see GME Resources, an Aussie nickel play, open and trade to 12c (+60%) on no news that I can find. Could it be that the company spiked...
Chris Weston
Chris Weston
Pepperstone
Macro

Neoliberalism is greatly misunderstood

The last decade has seen the concept of Neoliberalism go out of fashion. Today it is typically used as a slur against people holding small government and free market...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Macro

QE 2.0 is coming: do you know why?

In this new paper, Coolabah's Chief Macro Strategist, Kieran Davies, and its Chief Investment Officer, Christopher Joye, examine the case for the RBA launching QE 2.0...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

How to make money despite low rates and the zombie threat

Abnormally low-interest rates have been the most important factor governing financial markets for more than 10 years. Initially, these rates rescued debt markets....
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital Group
Macro

The key opportunities in 2021

Persistently low-interest rates and anaemic inflation are forcing investors to ratchet up their risk, but there are a few bright spots to consider in 2021, say...
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

Will Biden cause Market boom or bust?

In today's investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith and Head of Advice Tim Fuller ask the...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

The RBA has many more bullets to fire...

In the AFR today I write that markets are focused on what the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Governor Phil Lowe and Deputy Governor Guy Debelle decide regarding how they...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

RBA's dilemma: Aussie interest rates among the highest in developed world

The RBA's dilemma is very neatly explained by these charts, which are screen-shots from our internal systems (see below). They show that the interest rates on both...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Foxes and hedgehogs

When it comes to investor psychology, the Ancient Greeks knew what they were talking about. They categorised people as either hedgehogs or foxes. Foxes, they said,...
Chad Padowitz
Talaria Asset Management
Macro

Why inflation might return and why you need to worry about it

One thing I like about marathon running is the well-defined end-point. You train hard for a few months, eat well, dial it back for a week and then it’s race day. Once...
Steve Johnson
Forager
Macro

Microchip, mega battle for US and China

Japan’s Kioxia Holdings, which in the early 1980s invented flash memory computer chips, was set for one of the country’s biggest initial public offers for 2020. In...
Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Magellan
Macro

NSW budget tracking better than expected, in line with our forecasts

Coolabah Capital Investments (CCI) has a contrarian forecast that the state government budgets are going to track better than the states (and the market) expect. We...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

A trader's guide to markets in 2021, with Patrick Ceresna | Webinar & Podcast

In today's investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Operations Shelley George are joined by prolific trader, avid...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

The unknown unknowns

This time last year we were getting ready for the ‘known unknowns’ - the unpredictable events that we nevertheless knew were on their way. We knew that the Brexit...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
Macro

Recovery won't kick-start another decade-long bull market

We expect the global economy to continue its transition from hurting to healing in 2021 and make good progress on the long climb back to its pre-crisis trend (as we...
Joachim Fels
PIMCO
Outlook Series

The 5 types of bulls you'll meet in 2021

Those hunting for bears - grizzly and investment expert alike - will be very much disappointed to find no such creature in their midst at the outset of 2021. Instead,...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
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