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Share prices suddenly plummet. Interest rates are rising. Housing prices falling. Commodity prices at peaks. The headlines are painting a volatile picture of markets...

What is the Inflation Reduction Act? On 16 August 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law having passed through Congress based on the...

Justin again joins the podcast to provide an insight into the current strategy and outlook for the Ibex Israel fund considering the recent economic environment. Justin...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts that I handpicked from around the web and from Twitter posts. The purpose of this wire is to add extra...

Three years ago, an unassuming corner of the market was experiencing a multi-trillion-dollar crisis, now known as the 2019 Repo Market Crisis. The plumbing of our...

The age-old 60/40 portfolio has copped a growing chorus of criticism lately.  In short, the 60/40 strategy - made up of 60% equities, 40% bonds - is a hedging...

In his 8-minute speech at the recent Jackson Hole symposium, US Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, fundamentally shifted the market outlook. Powell strongly...

On December 15 last year, the US Federal Reserve expected its near-zero cash rate (known as the Federal funds rate) to rise only modestly to 0.9 per cent by the end...

Take a good look at your investments. Are they all based on solid investment philosophy and strategy? Or a random mix selected based on factors like your mood or a hot...

How do high inflation and rising interest rates impact markets? For many, the answer would be some combination of greater risk and lower returns from traditional asset...

Pricing power is now a major consideration with inflation on the rise. Equal consideration needs to be given to the social license of companies to raise prices in line...

When you think of industry leaders, large caps probably come to mind. Think iron ore giant BHP, biotechnology behemoth CSL, or global logistics software provider...

Inflation is high and investment income needs to keep up with the grocery bills (let alone energy prices). Interest rates are also rising which is both an...

So far in 2022, the defensive nature of health care has been the sector’s dominant story, with the S&P 500® Health Care sector returning -5.7% for the year compared...

The S&P/ASX 200 has rebounded more than 8% since hitting a low in late June, but Wilson Asset Management lead portfolio manager Matthew Haupt believes there's more...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

It’s not as if we didn’t know it was coming. Jerome Powell could hardly have been clearer at the recent Jackson Hole summit that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will keep up...

The rout in the ASX resumed today after yesterday’s holiday. Weakness in risk assets came on the back of rate hikes from the US Fed (+75bps) and the BOE (+50bps),...

Nuclear power is a low carbon energy source that can generate maximum power more reliably than any other energy source currently available.  In the aftermath of...

The term "free money" has been everywhere in financial markets for most of the last two years. Its genesis comes from the fact that central banks pumped enormous...