popular wires

Hans Rosling was a Swedish public health researcher who died of pancreatic cancer in 2017. He launched a website called www.gapminder.org and posthumously published a...

The yearly gathering of the worlds political and business leaders has just wrapped up in Davos. The theme for the conference was “creating a shared future in a...

The contact team sport kabaddi that started in India, sepak takraw or kick volleyball that originates from Southeast Asia, dragon boat racing, taekwondo, five...

Given the commentary from Jerome Powell (US Fed Chair) overnight, specifically around the trajectory of interest rates in the US (lower for longer) but more...

The investment industry lost one its pioneers earlier this month with the passing of Jack Bogle. He is widely seen as having changed how ordinary people invest their...

Over the summer break I was listening to the classic Australian comedy “Wired World of Sports” by the Twelfth Man, aka Billy Birmingham. One of the sketches involves a...

The local market once again failed around the 5900 level as it continues to struggle to find the next leg higher. The market jumped out of the blocks early to crack...

With markets more unpredictable than ever, I reached out to Hugh Dive at Atlas Funds to get his view of the year ahead. In this exclusive written Q&A, he shares three...

Australian bond yields declined rapidly over the December quarter, anticipating a major slowdown in the Australian and global economy. Real estate has a correlation to...

Solar is now viable at $50 a megawatt hour, half the wholesale price. Many investors don’t realise just how cheap solar has become, because the fall in price has been...

The ASX 200 came off the boil today with the index now looking set for a more protracted pullback into the ~5750 region or ~4% lower. After a reasonable open...

Business conditions in Australia took a massive hit, China stumbles but iron ore rallies, Apple earnings not as bad as feared and 2018 was a truly shocking year for...

I’m sure I wasn’t the only person flattening cardboard after Christmas and wondering who makes this now ubiquitous packaging. There was hardly a day in the run-up to...

Bellwether stock Nvidia was torched on Monday in the US after announcing a downgrade due to a slowdown in China; The US government shutdown comes to an end... for now;...

To look forward to this half, we need to look backwards. Annie Duke’s "Thinking in Bets" (1) is one of the best books of 2018. Annie was a psychology student who went...

Reading through Patrick Poke’s article yesterday analysing Seth Klarman’s annual letter for Baupost Group ("Klarman: A Buying Opportunity"), a particular passage stood...

While it is easy for investors to conclude that Australia’s run of economic growth is coming to an end with a housing slowdown, a closer balanced analysis of the...