Yesterday BXB fell -9.9% after reporting earnings which were basically in-line with recently downgraded guidance but the future looks uncertain, and this is clearly where the market focused. Outgoing Brambles chief executive Tom Gorman said the result was disappointing with most of the problems focused around its US business where... Show More

Yesterday’s intra-day strength in the local market surprised many investors including ourselves . The simple explanation for the ASX to gain over 70-points by lunchtime is money flowing into equities, which we believe is for two primary reasons - importantly not perceived value in the market. The almost impossible task... Show More

Today we are going to look at 3 aggressive plays / trades that we are considering in November. Unfortunately we have been fairly quiet in this department recently which is a shame since we have a great strike rate in the short-term arena. If interest rates are heading higher and... Show More

The US election is looming on Tuesday 8th November; personally, I would rather vote on a Saturday like we do. Currently, the polls have Hillary Clinton marginally ahead, but we all saw with BREXIT that there could be a huge margin for error in polls, especially when the race for... Show More

News has been extremely quiet on the M & A front in Australia for some time even with the world awash with "free money". Then suddenly on the Labour Day public holiday, we have two big deals across the news wires after the low volume trading day with most states... Show More

Currently, one of the hardest factors when investing in the Australian stock market is to find companies / sectors with decent growth potential moving forward that are on reasonable valuations. In a lot of instances, companies that have demonstrated strong growth over recent years are priced expensively, primarily due to... Show More

TPG Telecom (TPM) got whacked after releasing results that were in line with market expectations – however, they disappointed in terms of future guidance. The market sold them off by 21.56% on Tuesday, which also took Vocus (VOC) down by 3.64%. It’s just another example of the market getting too... Show More

Back on August 25th, we looked at the "increasing risks for the Chinese growth stocks" after they had suffered some significant declines. Investors who had entered the larger names, Blackmore's and Bellamy's earlier in the year, were losing money compared to the ASX200, which was mildly ahead. Chasing easy fast... Show More

Good morning everybody, on what is likely to be a tough day for local stocks with the futures pointing to at least a 1.5% fall in early trading. Today, we have changed our usual question style report due to the large nature of emails received over the weekend on the... Show More

We typically focus on the larger, more blue chip style investments at Market Matters and look to be active around positioning in these better known, more liquid stocks. Going down the food chain into the smaller areas of the market, where information typically comes direct from the companies, liquidity can... Show More

Last night European stocks closed at their highest level since early January led by the oil & gas sector which rallied 1.2%. The local energy stocks should have the ability to add to Mondays modest gains, but nothing is certain in this choppy market. As most readers will know, Saudi... Show More

Today, we see August come to an end and it's been a very quiet month from an index perspective, with a range only ~30% that of July's. All the action this month has been on the stock-specific level, with reporting season assisting some big moves in both directions. We have... Show More

Every Monday, the team at Market Matters answers a number of questions from our subscribers. Today’s question is… “In today's Morning Report you talk about the danger in the bond market. I have a portfolio of commercial bonds from FIIG which is returning me about 7% pa. These are mainly... Show More

Yesterday, one of the markets favourite stocks of the last 18 months, Blackmore's (BKL) literally fell off a cliff, collapsing almost 20% in the one day. In this reporting season, we have witnessed a few examples of "growth stocks" that are trading at very expensive valuations, being hammered when their... Show More

While US stocks continue to test all-time highs day-day activity remains extremely muted with the combination of US holiday season and Janet Yellen's weekend speech enough to continue the current run of low lacklustre moves – last night saw the 32nd straight session where US markets moved less than 1%.... Show More

The local share market had fallen in love with insurance stocks during 2016 prior to yesterday's plunge by serial market disappointed, QBE. The performance from our big insurance companies so far in 2016 has been stunning compared to the margin pressured banks. Noticeably the insurance stocks are now trading well... Show More

US stocks make record highs, 3 local stocks surge 10%, but everyone remains ‘tactically underweight’ stocks! Experts around the world are generally wary of bearish stocks at present, but they keep grinding higher. We think people are missing the simple factor that in the short term - central banks want... Show More

Stocks have become tricky over recent weeks and local reporting season has dominated intra-week swings of individual companies. Hence as we often say it's critical that subscribers understand both our views and reasoning for the path ahead. We are enjoying the feedback around our Monday mornings “Q & A" report... Show More

Today, Commonwealth Bank released their full-year result. Like many investors, Market Matters have been buyers and holders of CBA for quite some time. The banks and in particular CBA have offered fantastic returns over the last 5 years with CBA up over 60%, not including dividends which have been substantial.... Show More

Gold is a strange commodity with the quantity of gold stored above ground dwarfing the yellow metals annual demand. Unlike other commodities, the gold price is generally affected by sentiment and the direction of other assets as opposed to supply and demand. "Gold gets dug out of the ground in... Show More