There is an endless list of risks for investors to consider. But if we acted on every one of them, we’d never stay invested. To help isolate the key risks to consider in the current market, we asked two fund managers what's keeping them up at night right now. Ben... Show More
Business cycles don’t typically die of old age. Often, some outside force, such as higher interest rates, snuffs out the expansion. Surely the US Federal Reserve's intent is not to bring the economic cycle to a close, but that is often the result of trying to rid the system of... Show More
September was a reasonably volatile month as the markets had to digest key meetings from the ECB, BOJ & Fed and deal with a renewed focus on the viability of Deutsche Bank, after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) put forward their opening bid on the mortgage-securities cases fines. The... Show More
Good morning everybody, on what is likely to be a tough day for local stocks with the futures pointing to at least a 1.5% fall in early trading. Today, we have changed our usual question style report due to the large nature of emails received over the weekend on the... Show More
Volatility returned to global markets late last week after the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi left interest rates unchanged and downplayed the need to commit additional stimulus. The news surprised markets that had been expecting an extension of the ECB's asset purchase program. Mr. Draghi's only new announcement after... Show More
Tom Piotrowski speaks with CommSec Advisory’s Blair Hannon about this Friday’s US non-farm payrolls data and timing of expected US rate hikes as well as an offer by Pacific Equity to takeover Patties Foods More market news at Show More