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Australian house prices are falling. Credit availability is tightening. US mortgage rates are rising. These and other factors have put building materials stocks under...

Let’s start by defining what a recession actually is. Google’s dictionary defines it as ‘a period of temporary economic decline during which trading and industrial...

Some selling crept into the market today from early morning highs, particularly in the stocks that have led the recent advance from the December lows. Afterpay...

I spent a lot of time in the 2018 End of Year Special Edition looking back across the year, covering some of my best charts and calls (and some of the worst!). But...

The price of solar was already falling steadily but then plummeted over the last decade to make it far cheaper than conventional power. John Martin, CEO at New Energy...

Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX) has evolved from a small content management company based in Waterloo, Canada to a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM)....

Equity indices everywhere were in the red last year, yet the three most tipped stocks from the 2018 Livewire reader survey, Afterpay Touch, CSL and BHP, all finished...

The market environment has changed. Yet most advisers’ portfolios have not. They may want to adapt fast if they want their clients better suited to the new market...

It’s natural at this time of the year for investors to stick their heads up above the parapet, reflect on the wins and losses of 2018 and start mapping out...

For the best part of two decades, Australian banks enjoyed a golden period of share market outperformance. The banking sector was able to deploy significant capital at...

The oil price has been on a rollercoaster for the past five years. From the depths of US$28 per barrel in early 2016 the price rose to US$85 per barrel last October....

The market continued its march higher today with the index opening firm before rallying into a midday high. The typical Friday afternoon lethargy then took hold and...

We take our monthly look at the returns of Australian Microcap Funds. The majority of funds endured double-digit and drawdowns in the Dec 18 quarter. This large...

In December I published an article concluding that Google’s Waymo autonomous car division was well ahead of the competition. I stand by that assessment, and its hardly...

Gem production is ramping up successfully at Lucapa’s Mothae mine in Lesotho, the first international tender for its Lulo alluvial diamonds closes on January 31 and...

I distinctly remember one investor telling me how lonely he felt undertaking the task of running his super. Alone with lots of information and no one to speak with or...

The difficult combination of structural sector headwinds, a slowing economy and a patchy consumer ultimately has meant that retail businesses in Australia have been...

In little over a year since launching The Rules of Investing podcast, Patrick Poke has published 28 podcasts with Australia’s best fund managers, hitting the iTunes...