In the first episode of Buy Hold Sell for 2017 we take a look at the most popular bigcap stocks from the Livewire Reader Outlook Survey: BHP, NAB, CSL, Macquarie, and...

In 2016 the local index was held ransom by a run of unpredictable political and macro economic events. The ASX200 climbed an unremarkable (but tidy) 7%, which belies...

Everyone forecast the death of the Aussie dollar in 2016, however, interest rate differentials and resurgent commodity prices pushed the local currency to a peak of 78...

As part of Livewire's 2017 Outlook Series we’ve asked 5 professional stock pickers for their views on the outlook for equities and their #1 stock pick for 2017. The...

We've picked 6 topical points of interest for Australian equity investors to consider in the year ahead. We then put each of these possible scenarios to our panel to...

Equity markets always foolishly bake in something that is definitely going to happen in the future. So what is the market baking in for 2017 and what will they get...

In this week’s Buy Hold Sell we examine five of the most shorted stocks on the ASX. All five of these stocks have over 11% of their register sold short. Traders short...

Cyclical stocks, financials, low price-to-book/price-to-earnings ‘value’ stocks, and resources have all been on a run recently. Meanwhile, high price-to-earnings...

In this episode of Buy Hold Sell we ask our panel to share their views on a selection of companies offering exposure to travel, tourism and the consumer. After a...

It has been the surprise story for 2016. A bottoming in commodity prices triggered an aggressive bounce in resources stocks and the services companies exposed the...

One of the most profitable trends in the market this year has been the outperformance of small cap stocks. The Small Ordinaries index (total return) is up around 13%,...

High prices, high growth, and high expectations; these are the market darlings. In a market where growth is hard to come by investors have demonstrated they are...

Financial Year 2016 has been a challenging year for investors, as many of the ‘market darlings’ of previous years took big hits in the second half. The banks and the...

Given all the negativity around the companies at the big end of the market, investors could be forgiven for thinking there’s been nothing positive in this space. It...

Demand for food and drinks is all but sure to rise both in Australia and globally as the population continues to grow and more people move into the middle class. By...

Everyone has an opinion on stocks; hardly a week can go by without a story in the news about the next Uber (or Amazon, Facebook, Seek…). If investors don't do their...

Healthcare has been a strong performer in recent years, over the past 5 years the healthcare index has returned 110.7% compared to the broader ASX 200’s measly 3.5%....

If the mainstream media has caught on to a theme, you know it’s too late to get in. This time was no exception. When 60 Minutes claimed to have uncovered the “big...

Reporting season is a busy and exciting time for all investors, this one more than most. Volatility has been a common factor this time around, with some huge moves in...