If there’s one thing holding back the electrical vehicle sector it’s ‘range anxiety’ – the sickly feeling that you’re not going to make it to the next sparsely-located charging station and will spend the night by a lonely verge. Show More

While the robust revival of thermal coal prices has surprised the carbon sceptics and renewables zealots alike, the even more spectacular performance of coking (metallurgical) coal has played out to largely empty auditoriums. Show More

The listed builders of detached dwellings are holding their own amid a stiffening housing downturn, with the ‘strength in adversity’ message emanating from their recent profit results. Show More

With the parched conditions lingering in some key farming regions, it’s becoming a case of the water haves and have-nots for the key listed agriculture plays. Show More

If there’s a clear winner from the murky swamp of revelations uncovered by the banking royal commission, it’s the provider of independent administration and investment platforms for the financial advisory industry. Show More

While a fresh report on the childcare sector highlights a dearth of places for under two year olds in some non-urban regions, oversupply is emerging in the main cities and the three listed childcare providers are howling with pain. Show More

Four Pillars, beware: the low-key payments services house is applying for a banking licence under a new restricted ‘P plate’ category aimed at supporting the growth of the fintech sector. Show More

Food Revolution Group (FOD), trading at 9.5c, the producer of all-Australian juices, fibres and “infused fruits” is getting serious about China, having entered a distribution deal with Daigou channel Health More. Show More

Until Seek came along, recruiting was pretty much about bunging an ad in Saturday’s classifieds and sifting candidates based on their ability to write a semi-coherent application. Show More

We wouldn’t say it’s gone to pot, but the ASX-listed cannabis sector is facing a much-needed reality check as investors realise that the medical marijuana aspirants need more than a ‘grow it and they will come’ strategy. Show More

Despite the multitude of worries in the world, the gold price in $US terms continues to be under pressure, trading about 2.7 percent below its level of a year ago and about 10 percent off its January peak. Show More

Funds oriented to growth stocks such Hamish Douglass’s Magellan have been the rock stars in recent times, which makes value funds such as Templeton the crooner on stage at the RSL club belting out hits from the 1960s. Show More

For investors in the burns treatment house, progress has been a slow burn indeed since Avita rode the prestige of treating Bali bombing victims with its innovative ‘spray on’ skin technology. That was back in 2002 and my time flies. Now, Avita faces its defining moment in history with the... Show More

Sigma Healthcare has put a brave face on the loss of a chemist supply contract that accounts for about 40 percent of its revenue, arguing that there wasn’t much point refreshing the deal if it wasn’t going to make a decent margin out of it. Show More

To the chagrin of UK motorists, Smart Parking was on to what Arthur Daly would dub a nice little earner: sign up a client such as a shopping centre, install technology such as automated number plate recognition and reap the rewards from issuing infringement notices. Show More

The number one imperative of managing staff is not to provide the troops with chocolate biscuits in the tea room or a subsidised gym, but to pay them accurately and on time. Show More

Leigh Creek management must be feeling like Fortescue Metals founder Andrew Forrest on opening his Cloudbreak mine, after an analyst earlier opined he would safely lie on the railway track to the site because the mine would never be built. Show More

With Mortgage Choice joining the casualty list of high-profile franchised operations, investors are pondering just how low the mortgage broker’s shares can go following reports of a looming franchisee revolt. Show More

Quickstep Holdings (QHL) 7.5c: Quickstep’s recently-appointed CEO gives a succinct explanation for why shares in the Bankstown Airport based carbon composites maker are trading at close to record lows. Show More

Aside from the hoary old one about bellhops imparting share tips, the sure-fire sign of an impending bear market is when stockbrokers seek a public listing to share the dubious love. Show More