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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...

The ASX gave back yesterday’s gains today with Real-Estate and IT feeling the pinch, although the influential banks finished higher while pockets of the resources...

Like a bear with a sore head, many investors probably wish they had stayed in hibernation in 2022. It has been a brutal year so far, the worst since the Great...

By virtue of their stage of economic development, emerging markets can offer investors supercharged growth opportunities. It follows that the greatest number of...

Over the next 30 years, it is estimated that more than $8 trillion of investment will be needed to fund nature-based solutions to tackle climate change, biodiversity...

After a disappointing budget blighted by heinous conflicts of interest that are costing NSW taxpayers at least $630 million a year, NSW attracted a record $8.9...

Fast food businesses usually do well when times are tough, as many people – and families in particular – opt for less expensive places to eat out. It’s therefore no...

Warren Buffett once observed that “In stocks, it’s the only place where, when things go on sale, people get unhappy.” Which is ironic, because bear markets give...

As higher inflation and rising interest rates weigh on equities and fixed income assets, is it time for investors to re-calibrate their expectations of a traditional...

Energy Prices vs Metal Prices: Energy commodity prices (the index in this chart includes crude oil, natural gas, and other petroleum products) have pulled back from...

The selloff of Australian large-cap stocks is overdone, investors are pricing in a sharper rise in interest rates than is likely, says Hugh Dive of Atlas Funds...

It is widely accepted that the world is on a path to a new energy mix. How and when we get there is far less certain, and it presents investors with abundant...

For the last two centuries, energy revolutions have created extensive platforms for subsequent technologies to drive wealth creation and raise global living...

The NASDAQ 100 and ASX All Tech indexes are down around 30% for the year so far but private equity is seeing value in parts of the technology sector. That’s...

Small and medium-sized businesses need capital but consistently fall through the cracks, often ignored by big banks. In Australia alone, there’s a more than $200...

Sustainability is a huge word. The range of investment opportunities under its umbrella is enormous - and some of them are not even guaranteed to make you a return...

Back-to-back strength for the Australian market with the ASX now up 350pts / 5.5% from the recent low ~6400. Energy the standout today as Oil rallied, reports of a...

A solid start to the week with the ASX putting on nearly 2% led by the financial sector, although it was green right across the screen with all sectors finishing up...

Calls of a US recession are getting louder, particularly in the US, amid a 40-year high for inflation and a worsening outlook for employment. The situation in...

A year ago, investors were questioning the prudence of the 60-40 blend and no one was predicting that, entering the 2022/23 financial year, they would be increasing...