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Electro Optic Systems (ASX:EOS) US$42m Slinger Order Lands as Defence Demand Heats Up
New Highs, New Contract, But Valuation Is Now the Debate Electro Optic Systems has pushed to new highs on the…
Sovereign Metals (ASX:SVM) Japan Wants Kasiya Rutile, 70,000 tpa Targeted
Kasiya gets a handshake from a Tier One Trading Partner Sovereign Metals surged 10% today after signing a memorandum of…
ASX Set for Another Red Day as Oil Shock Rattles Markets
Oil Above US$100 Has Markets Repricing Risk Fast It looks like there is a strong chance the ASX has another…
Locksley Resources (ASX:LKY) From Ore to 99.5% Antimony, Proof Beats Promises
Locksley 99.5% Purity, The Antimony Story Gets Real Lockley Resources is beginning to show strong signs of progress after successfully…
Oil Jumps Again as Tankers Burn Near Hormuz
14 Ships Hit, Oil Spikes, The Strait Is the Story The US and Israel have now been conducting military strikes…
IperionX (ASX:IPX) Losses Hit US$34m, The Onshoring Bet Gets Pricier
Admin Costs Up 5x, Now Prove the Titanium Scale Up IperionX fell 7% to US$6.50 after releasing its half-year result.…
ASX Gambling Shares Set to Benefit from New Zealand Casino Reform
While the broader gambling conversation often remains fixated on regulatory pressure facing land-based casinos, a high margin opportunity is emerging…
Oil Shock Puts Two RBA Hikes Back on the Table
Why Rate Hike Bets Just Jumped Australia’s major banks and economists are rapidly repricing their interest rate expectations, with NAB…
Lynas (ASX:LYC) Japan Just Put a US $550m Floor Under the Story
A 12 Year Price Floor Changes the Earnings Maths Lynas just signed what we see as a very bullish JARE…
Crude’s Biggest Drop in Four Years, One Tweet, One Signal, One Chokepoint
Crude Crashes as the War Premium Evaporates Crude oil suffered its biggest one-day drop in four years on Tuesday, with…
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) $553B Backlog, $48B Capex, Now We Find Out
The Biggest AI Infrastructure Bet Just Got Its First Payoff Oracle surged more than 8% after hours after delivering a…
Analysts Encourage Investment In British Gambling Stocks Despite Tax Rises
Investment analysts are urging investors to remain confident in British gambling stocks even as the UK prepares to introduce a…
How Regulated ASX Utilities Keep Dividends Flowing Amid Rate Rises
Regulated utilities on the ASX have stood out in recent years by holding firm on dividends, even as higher interest…
Metallium (ASX:MTM) The Gator Point Scale Up, Parallel Reactors Are the Test
200g per Tonne Gold Feedstock, Now Prove Throughput Metallium has just given investors a firm update on the development of…
Oil Dumps as Trump Signals the War Could End Soon
Oil Pulls Back Hard, But Hormuz Risk Still Sets the Floor The core reason oil prices plunged was that President…
Fortuna Metals (ASX:FUN) Mkanda Delivers High Grade Rutile Zones, 485 Holes Still to Come
First Drilling Hits Kasiya Style Rutile Fortuna Metals is a small ASX-listed miner with exposure to the Mkanda and Kampini…
Telix (ASX:TLX) Green Light to Move Into the Pivotal Phase 3 Study
TLX591-Tx Hits Safety Goals, US Enrollment Now in Sight Telix is developing a new type of cancer treatment for advanced…
Anthropic Draws a Line With the Pentagon
The AI-First Military Agenda with Anthropic The Pentagon is moving aggressively to bring cutting-edge commercial AI into defence work. A…
88 Energy (ASX:88E) Doubles on Alaska Upside, Here’s What’s Driving It
The Market Just Repriced Alaska Exploration Optionality 88 Energy surged 100% today on the back of a corporate presentation that…
Oil Jumps to US$111 as Hormuz Stays Shut, ASX Slides Hard
The Oil Chokepoint Shock Brent crude jumped 20% to US$111 per barrel, while the ASX 200 fell 3%, with companies…
Oil Price Shocks and Their Impact on the Australian Economy
Oil Price Shocks The Hidden Risk in Australia’s Economy For a country that is so rich in resources, it is…
OpenAI Steps Back From In Chat Purchases, Focus Shifts to Discovery
OpenAI Hits a Hard Truth OpenAI looks to be making a strategic U turn. Rather than pushing to make direct…
ASX Has Its Worst Week Since 2022 as Stagflation Fears Hit
ASX Slides 4% for the Week as Oil Jumps and Sentiment Breaks The ASX 200 fell 1.2% to 8,829, taking…
Australia’s Energy Shock, Why Petrol Prices Could Stay High
Australia’s Inflation Problem The critical issue for Australia is that we import roughly 90% of our oil. At the same…
Regener8 Resources (ASX:R8R) Up 100% as Srebrenica North Funding Lands Fast
A Two Part Raise Sparks a 100% Rerate Regener8 Resources had a major rerate today, with the stock surging 100%…
Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) Revenue Up 29%, AI Up 106%, A Strong AI Quarter
Big AI Revenue, Bigger Cash Generation Broadcom had a very strong start to Q1 FY26, with total revenue reaching $19.3…
How CFD Trading Is Adapting to Global Regulatory Shifts in 2026
Something changed how the regulators were looking at the CFD markets, and it didn’t happen overnight. The post-pandemic period has…
Why This Iran War Could Push Oil Above $100
Oil Surged, Defence Stocks Jumped, and the Macro Risk Is Rising Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched strikes…
When to Sell ASX Oil Stocks in a Geopolitical Spike
When to Take Profits as Crude Rallies Cyclical stocks like oil can be some of the hardest to time, especially…
What Is Proprietary Trading and How Do Prop Firms Work?
What Is Proprietary Trading? Proprietary trading – or “prop trading” – is when a financial firm trades stocks, futures, currencies,…
4 Investment Trends Driving Growth in Australia’s Digital Payments Sector
The 2025 AustPost eCommerce report reveals that roughly 9.8 million households made online purchases in 2024, a new record at…
South Korea KOSPI Crashes 7.2% as Samsung and SK Hynix Break the Market’s Back
South Korea’s Chip Rally Just Unwound The South Korean stock market was hit hard on Tuesday, with the KOSPI falling…
Scalare Partners (ASX:SPX) Up 43% on a Huge H1, But It’s an M&A Story Now
Revenue Up 370%, The Market Loves the Tank Stream Labs Deal Scalare Partners Holdings surged 43% today after reporting a…
China’s New Submarines Could Threaten the US From Close to Home
The Undersea Arms Race Is Heating Up Senior U.S. naval officials are starting to sound the alarm over China’s rapidly…
St George Mining (ASX:SGQ) 75% Resource Upgrade, Stock Down 15%, Why?
St George Mining Hits 70.9Mt, The Market Still Wants Confidence St George Mining announced a major resource upgrade at its…
Oil Supply Risk Rises After Iran Drone Attacks Reach Ras Tanura and UK Base in Cyprus
From Battlefield to Oil Chain, Drone Attacks Expand the Conflict Map A British military base at Akrotiri in Cyprus and…
Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:SRL) A US$120m Scandium Project With a 2 to 3 Year Payback
Sunrise Energy Metals $90m Revenue Potential, Here’s Why the Stock Jumped Sunrise Energy Metals surged 17% today after the company…
Life360 (ASX:360) 95.8m Users, Positive Operating Income, The Setup Changes
Revenue Up 32%, Profit Up Faster, The Market Missed It Life360 has been one of the names caught up in…
The Iran Gulf Drone Threat Is Real and Counter Drone Demand Is Rising
Drone Warfare Is Spreading and Counter Drone Stocks Are Moving Fast It is not just the war in Ukraine where…
Electro Optic Systems (ASX:EOS) $100m Facility Secured, But at a 14.75% Price Tag
More Firepower for Working Capital and Growth Electro Optic Systems (ASX:EOS) announced today that it now has access to a…
Iran War Breaks Out, Oil Risk Spikes, Here’s What Markets Are Watching
Strait of Hormuz Risk Is the Real Oil Story Right Now As many people saw on Saturday morning, the bombing…
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) CEO Buys $1m of Shares, Here’s What It Signals
WiseTech $1m Insider Buy, The Synergy Curve Is the Thesis WiseTech Global (ASX: WTC) has just given investors a simple…
Block (ASX:XYZ) Up 28% as a 40% Headcount Cut Rewrites the Earnings Outlook
Jack Dorsey Goes Lean, The Market Pays Up Block shares surged 28% following the announcement that the company intends to…
AML3D (ASX:AL3): Order Book at $16.5m, The Growth Runway Stays Intact
A $150m to $200m Navy Opportunity, But Execution Comes First AML3D has reported its interim half-year results, and while revenue…
Capital Allocation in a Fragmented World, Where Smart Money Is Quietly Moving
Global markets in 2026 feel more fragmented than ever. Inflation has moderated in some regions yet remains sticky in others.…
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) New Rubin Chip Is Here, A 25% Higher Price, A 10x Better Outcome
Rubin Is Here, The Real Story Is Cost per Token Nvidia has now unveiled its new Vera Rubin chips, and…
Geopolitics, AI, and Energy, The Three Pillars of Investment Growth in 2026
Investing right now feels riskier than ever – messy geopolitics, the AI boom, and power shortages are all piling on.…
Shares In ReadyTech (ASX:RDY) Are Down 57%, Where’s the Operating Leverage?
Shares In ReadyTech Under Pressure In Light of a Soft Half Any investors owning shares in ReadyTech (ASX:RDY) will have…
Adisyn (ASX:AI1) Graphene Makes Drones Harder to Detect
Big Step in Drone Stealth With Graphene Adisyn (ASX:AI1) has successfully completed an early proof of concept demonstrating that graphene…
DroneShield (ASX:DRO) $21.7m Europe Deal Lands One Day After Results
Earnings Beat, Then a $21.7m Contract, Momentum Stays Hot DroneShield appears to have timed this very well, announcing a new…
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) $216b Revenue, 65% Growth, Still Pushing the Frontier
Rubin Targets 10x Cheaper Inference, That’s the Real Story Nvidia delivered an exceptional quarter and a standout full-year result, which…
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) This Is Not an “AI Jobs Bomb”, It’s M&A Synergies
The Layoffs Are Integration, Not AI Panic Coming across coverage of WiseTech this reporting season, we have seen a lot…
DroneShield (ASX:DRO) Revenue Up 276%, The Business Crosses the Profit Chasm
Hardware Wins, SaaS Ambition, The Earnings Quality Upgrade DroneShield has now crossed the commercial profitability chasm, and FY25 was clearly…
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) The e2open Earnings Reality Check And What Comes For FY26
Cheapest Multiple in 5 Years, But the Market Wants Proof WiseTech is a company we have been covering at Stocks…
Forecasts for the Key ASX Sectors in 2026
The Australian Stock Exchange is seeing all the different sectors performing at all levels of speed. In 2026, investors ask…
7 ASX Stocks Positioned to Win as Financial Services Battle for Talent Reaches Crisis Point
Australian financial services companies are facing their most acute talent shortage in over a decade. A recent study by the…
Nanosonics (ASX:NAN) Revenue Up 9%, But Operating Leverage Still Missing
Nanosonics Investors Want Margin Accretion, This Half Did Not Deliver It Nanosonics saw its share price fall 7% to around…
ARB Corporation (ASX:ARB) Down 15% as Margins Reset and Earnings Slide
ARB Corporation A Small Revenue Dip, A Big Profit Hit, Here’s Why ARB Corporation had a sharp 15% fall today…
Monadelphous Group (ASX:MND) A Clean Beat, Revenue Up 45%, Profit Up 52%
Monadelphous Group Earnings Quality Improves as Construction Surges Monadelphous Group had a strong re rate on its half year result,…
If you decide to start investing in 2026, here’s how you should approach it
If you want to start investing in 2026 to say it is a turbulent environment is an understatement. An undercurrent…
Electro Optic Systems (ASX:EOS) A 20% Re Rate on Confidence, Not Clean Earnings
Contracted Revenue Up 238%, Market Looks Through the Noise Electro Optic Systems had a pretty substantial re rate, up 20%.…
Trump’s 15% Global Tariff, Why Markets Barely Blinked
Trump’s New 15% Import Tariff On Saturday, Donald Trump announced a new 15% global tariff on virtually all imports entering…
Nuix (ASX:NXL) Looks Cheap on 6x EBITDA, Is the Turnaround Real?
The Nuix Flywheel Is Turning, Bigger Deals, Better Margins Nuix is one to keep on the watchlist. At first glance,…
Long-term vs. Day Trading: Choosing Your Winning Strategy for Your ASX Portfolio
When it comes to investing in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), two predominant strategies often emerge: long-term investing and day…
Guzman y Gomez (ASX:GYG) Strong Numbers, Brutal Sell Off, What Broke?
Revenue Up 23%, Stock Down 10%, Here’s Why GYG was a big IPO in 2024, but since then the stock…
Telix (ASX:TLX) Could Be A Turnaround Story (Investing for FY26)
Illuccix Still Prints, Gozellix Adds a New Growth Leg Telix saw a small rerate this morning after releasing its full…
Megaport (ASX:MP1) Strong Half, But Statutory Earnings Could Still Get Hit
Megaport Network Engine Is Working Megaport had a strong half, but there were a few areas in the financials and…
How Long-Term Returns Are Shaped by Financial Cycles
Investors who think the present will last forever are often humbled by markets. Easy money eras seem to last forever—until…
Sonic Healthcare (ASX:SHL) Still Compounding, Integration Is the Near Term Drag
The Quality Compounder, With a Margin Reset Under the Hood Sonic Healthcare is one of the ASX 200’s higher quality…
Zip Co (ASX:ZIP) Down 31% on a Strong Half, What Did the Market See?
Zip Co US Growth Story Is Working, Investors Fear the Mix Shift There was a lot of panic selling in…
TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) Defying the AI Doom Trade With 18% to 20% PBT Growth
SaaS Plus AI Momentum Drives a FY26 Upgrade TechnologyOne is defying the market’s AI shock narrative. For readers who came…
Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN) Cash Acceleration Is the Story in 1H FY26
Hansen Technologies 7% Sales Growth, 46% EBITDA Growth, Execution Tightens Hansen Technologies delivered steady revenue growth, but a sharp uplift…
JB Hi-Fi Earnings: Good Results and AI Optimism Spark a 12% Re Rate!
JB Hi-Fi Earnings: The Market Reprices Quality And AI Exposure JB Hi-Fi has seen a strong re rate over the…
Nanoveu (ASX:NVU) NTU Drone Swarm IP, GPS Free Navigation Goes on Trial
Testing GPS Free Swarm Tech With NTU Nanoveu today announced it has entered an exclusive evaluation licence with Nanyang Technological…
Botanix (ASX:BOT) Down 40% on a $45m Raise, Dilution Shock Hits Hard
A Steep Discount, A Big Dilution, A New Valuation Anchor Botanix started the session with a sharp sell off, falling…
Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL) The Statutory Hit Spooked Investors
Australian Clinical Labs fell 10% today after revenue went slightly backwards, even though underlying profit improved. The key nuance is…
Eden Innovations (ASX:EDE) Up 30% on a Debt Free Reset, But Dilution Is the Price
$2.2m Loan Converts, Balance Sheet Clears, Shares Reprice Eden Innovations surged 30% today to 24.5c after announcing it has converted…
Fortif AI (ASX:FTI) The Agentic AI “Data Plane” Behind the Models
The Real AI Bottleneck Is Data, Not Models Fortif AI Fortif AI surged 14% to 32c this morning after announcing…
Austal (ASX:ASB) Investors Jump Ship After US Accounting Shock
Investors Bail, But US Shipbuilding Demand Has Not Austal has seen a sharp price fall after flagging an accounting overstatement…
Cochlear (ASX:COH) Down 16% on a Softer Half, What the Market Is Really Pricing
Cochlear had a softer start to its half yearly result, with sales of A$1.1 billion down around 1%. The bigger…
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) Is The Cheapest Its Been in 5 Years
Why WTC Is More Volatile Than Xero and Megaport WiseTech is trading at its cheapest level in five years. And…
New Frontier Minerals (ASX:NFM) The Smart Part of This Deal Is Metallium (ASX:MTM)
Canada Exposure, Metallium Processing, One Thesis New Frontier Minerals has signed a binding option and staged earn in agreement to…
Pro Medicus (ASX:PME) Down 16% on a Great Result, Here’s Why
A Premium Multiple Leaves No Room for “Good” Pro Medicus fell 16% despite what, on the surface, looked like an…
AMP (ASX:AMP) Statutory Profit Sank, Underlying Profit Jumped, So Why Did It Fall?
The Market Saw $133m, Not the $285m Story AMP had a sharp fall early this morning, and it felt like…
Great Dirt Resources (ASX:GR8) Up 130% on a $1.45m Cornerstoned Raise
Placement Locked In, Sentiment Explodes Great Dirt Resources saw a significant re-rating today, up 130%, after locking in binding agreements…
Aussie Broadband (ASX:ABB) Surges 20% on AGL Telco Deal And 1H26 Results! But Is the Devil In the Details?
AGL Telco Deal Is EPS Accretive, But Dilution Is the Debate Aussie Broadband had a sharp surge this morning, up…
CSL Releases 1H26 Results Following CEO Exit Shock And Has More Than Halved in 2 Years! What’s Real vs Noise?
CSL Releases 1H26 Results:A Volatile Print, But Not a Broken Franchise Investors should brace for a bumpy ride with CSL…
Amplitude Energy (ASX:AEL) Down 20% After Elanora 1 Misses, Isabella Is the Next Shot
Amplitude Energy The Market Was Positioned for Gas, It Got Water Amplitude Energy (ASX:AEL) saw a sharp sell-off, down around…
G8 Education (ASX:GEM) Down 15% After a $350m Impairment, What It Really Means
G8 Education This Is Not a Cash Crisis, It’s a Capital Returns Reset G8 Education had a rough session today,…
Xero (ASX:XRO) 57% Off Highs, Is the “AI Shock” Overdone?
Systems of Record Do Not Get Replaced Overnight A couple of weeks ago, we published an article on Xero (ASX:XRO).…
Fortuna Metals (ASX:FUN) The Kasiya Neighbour Trade in Rutile Is Heating Up
Fortuna Metals Rutile in the Shadow of a US$2.3bn PFS Comparable Fortuna Metals (ASX:FUN) has further demonstrated larger-scale rutile mineralisation…
Corning (NYSE:GLW) A $6B Meta Deal and a New AI Demand Curve
From iPhone Glass to AI Infrastructure, The Story Has Changed Many investors are starting to take notice of Corning, a…
Pepper Money (ASX:PPM) Up 25% as Challenger (ASX:CGF) Confirms Deal Talks
Not a Takeover, A Partnership Style Deal With Challenger Pepper Money (ASX:PPM) surged 25% at the market open today after…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Down 9%, Is Capex Becoming the Story?
14% Sales Growth, 128B Spend, Now What? Amazon has fallen about 9%. While we are holders of the stock, when…
Tech and AI Stocks Sell Off, This Reckoning Was Always Coming
The Tech and AI Valuation Reality Check When it comes to stock prices, they usually rise when fundamentals and earnings…
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) 20% Down in a Week, Reset Opportunity or Start of a De Rating?
The Sell Off Isn’t About One Quarter, It’s About the Multiple AMD has sold off hard, down around 21% in…
Why Are Tech and SaaS Stocks Selling Off Right Now?
Why Are Tech and SaaS Stocks Selling Off Right Now? You have probably felt the brute force of this sell-off…
Xero Shares Are 56% Off the Peak, Is the Market Mispricing Quality?
The SaaS Reset Creates a New Entry Debate for Xero Shares Across the Australian tech complex, we have seen a…
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) 82% Upside or a Value Trap in Disguise?
Is the Market Missing the Real Question on Wisetech Global From writing on over 100 different ASX companies over the…
ASX Shaken by Gold Rout as RBA Hike Bets Get Repriced
Investor’s Summary Commodities de-levered hard: gold dumped below US$5,000 briefly and silver cratered up to ~30%, consistent with forced liquidation…