consumer spending

‘Tis the season to start feeling pessimistic and tighten the budget if the latest data is anything to go by. There’s been gloom and doom predicted for markets all...

Recession, schmession. If there’s one on the cards, consumers are ignoring the gloom and continuing to spend up big. It’s all been wonderful news for retailers. And...

In this episode of Stocks Neat, I am joined by Alex Shevelev, Senior Analyst on the Forager Australian Shares Fund, to discuss the potential decline of consumer...

There’s been a lot of gloom and doom this year – but reports handed down this August were far from disappointing. Several companies returned record profits and...

One of the 19 “Most Important Things” for Oaktree Capital’s famed co-founder Howard Marks (from his excellent 2011 book) is to have a sense of where we stand. “I...