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After looking good yesterday the ASX has flipped on a dime and sold off hard today following a poor night overseas thanks largely to weakness amongst the retail...

I recently realised that my years of dating terrible boyfriends prepped me for my journey in investment markets. For example, I've learnt that when it sounds like a...

A solid session for the ASX with the market keying off a positive lead from US stocks, however, what was also obvious was buying of the intra-session dips that...

As the Kenny Rogers song goes, "You've got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em." For James McFall of Yield Financial Planning, that very line is what's...

Picture it, New York City, September 11th, 2001. I don't have to tell you what happened that day - we all probably remember where we were when we heard the news that...

Some "inside-baseball" monetary policy machinations were revealed by the RBA yesterday, which banks and other expert RBA watchers summarise as the central bank...

The ASX edged higher today thanks largely to buying in the Energy & Materials stocks while the Utilities were also strong. US Futures ticked up during our time zone,...

Livewire trades in the currency of ideas. Ideas from the leading minds in Australia and abroad, all in the name of making you better investors. You can understand my...

Earnings come in cycles but rarely do those numbers come into the post-maturity stage of a business cycle like the one we are witnessing right now. As 2021 turned to...

Bubble-Bursting Bear-Market: The major drivers of strength in global equities since the market bottom in 2009 (and ensuing decade-long bull market) namely:...

Thomas Weber (German/Swiss) is a co-founder and a Managing Partner at LGT Capital Partners Ltd. He chairs the firm’s Alternative Investment Committee and the Liquid...

When Frederick Hayek accepted his Nobel Prize for Economics back in 1974 he noted that at the time, “Economists were being called upon to say how to extricate the free...

It’s amazing to think investors would ever stop caring whether a company was profitable or not, but it seems to happen every cycle, usually towards the latter stages...

May 2022 Australian property market affordability update Australian property market prices have started to drift lower. In recent months, mortgage fixed interest...

There has been a lot of conversation around the need to reach net-zero and in turn, why now presents a great opportunity to buy decarbonisation-linked assets (as shown...

Investors are well aware that equity markets have commenced 2022 with severe volatility and big price declines. Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and economic...

From time to time equity markets are enveloped by short-term irrationality and aspirational future cash flows. There are some investors embracing this fantasy world,...

As interest rates have marched steadily towards zero, investors who rely on income have been forced further out along the risk curve in order to generate sufficient...

The market was strong early with futures rallying ~75 points at the outset however weaker than expected data from China saw the market roll over mid-morning. IT...

NOAA, The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts weather, and as such it has spent many years trying to help communities prepare for storms –...