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American leading economic indicators have had a bad month. US small business employment has fallen, just like it did in early 2008. Freight indices are at ugly levels....

Global debt today is as high as it ever has been. Driven by loose monetary and fiscal policies, leverage is enormous and market dislocations numerous. We are in...

Recently in his famed afternoon stock market summary, Richard Coppleson from Bell Potter outlined his observations from 290 stocks that reported earnings results back...

The decline in US interest rates by the Federal Reserve to combat the GFC has left a mark on the investment landscape and triggered the rise of a new bubble – the...

Recently there has been considerable focus in the press and across the investment community on the state of the Australian economy. Most of this attention has been...

Investing in “quality” companies has been a commonly cited phrase in the investing community over the past few decades. There is no better person to encapsulate this...

“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised.”AnonymousEach half, as part of our outlook for the coming six...

A very rare market dynamic has recently appeared, the likes of which has rarely been seen throughout history. Australian rates and bonds, which have traditionally...

Reporting season is now upon us and this morning we had Credit Corp (CCP) out with full year results, the stock down -6.17% on the session highlighting the volatility...

As you likely know, short selling is a trading strategy that involves borrowing and then selling shares in a business, with the aim of buying them back and returning...

Ethical and socially responsible investing is a rapidly growing sector in Australia, with total funds under management up 57% over the last two years according to the...

Witnessing the practical deployment of Audinate’s Dante technology within one of the world’s largest and most recognised organisations provided useful...

The back-story... I try to put my money where my mouth is. A couple of months prior to the Federal Election, we shifted more than $100m into franked ASX hybrids for...

As soon as she was able to open a trading account, Michelle Lopez bought shares in ASX, seeing it as a monopoly business crucial to the function of financial markets....

With the cash rate at just 1.0% and Westpac calling 0.5% by February, income stocks are firmly back on the menu. So, this week we scanned the market for outsized...

Yield chasing has spilled over into nearly every asset class, with Australian listed bank hybrids no exception. The current average margin of bank bills + 2.40% is...

As we learned earlier this week, listed infrastructure offers income, growth, and diversification from typical stock-bond portfolios, yet it only forms a small part of...

Today I write that the RBA has been spinning stories (basically blatant BS) on housing, the most miraculous of which is the completely fallacious claim that cutting...

The investing landscape will remain uncertain for the remainder of 2019, with bond and equity markets seemingly sending contradictory signals, GSFM and its fund...

Valmec Ltd (ASX:VMX) is a diversified energy and infrastructure services group that provides essential services to the oil and gas, resources and infrastructure sector...