The 2026 health insurance premium rise is in, and it is 4.41%. It made headlines because it is ahead of inflation and the largest average increase in percentage terms since 2017. Obviously unwelcome timing for households struggling with the cost of living, but good for the companies themselves, right? Not so fast.
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Revolver Resources (ASX:RRR) can boast in a way few other ASX resources juniors can, in having a project that was once Australia's highest grade mine. The Dianne deposit was mined for 4 years during the late 1970s and early 1980s, generating >20% copper. While low prices and a lack of exploration technology to uncover further…
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) caught our eye at Stocks Down Under because we noticed shares had rebounded in the past couple of weeks at a time all other SaaS stocks were being sold off. Investors have fears AI tools will at best result in intense competition for customers, at worst send them the same way as Kodak…
There can only be one Berkshire Hathaway, but the closest company to it is Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Co (ASX:SOL). Sure, there are investment houses out there, but few lack the track record and history of this company. Last year, however, saw one of its boldest moves in decades in merging with Brickworks (ASX:BKW).…
The Iran oil shock is not the first and won't be the last, but still has investors perplexed at what to do. It is said that those who don't learn from history repeat it, so we think the best thing to do is look at the past and see past oil shocks and predict what…
Cobram Olive Estates (ASX:CBO) is a $1.4bn company - an impressive feat for a company only specialising in olives. But the company is off all time highs after investors poured cold water on its 1H26 results. Is this a chance to buy the dip or is it a falling knife?
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Chalice Mining (ASX: CHN) has been the exploration story of the decade. All of the hundreds of explorers on the ASX dream of stumbling across a monster deposit that can become a major mine. That's just what has happened to Chalice Mining. Since March 2020 it has re-rated from 20 cents to over $9, its…
It has been a while since we've looked at ASX Cannabis Stocks, and we are sure we are not the only ones to have paid little attention to it. Nonetheless, there were times when we paid closer attention - who could forget late 2020 when the TGA declassified low-dose CBD products, allowing them to be…
Visit the website Investigator Silver (ASX:IVR) and you'll see the declaration that the company is 'Home of Australia's Only Pure Silver Asset'. Sure, there are other companies on the ASX with exposure to silver, but plenty of them only have silver as a by-product.
Investigator's Paris Project, which lies in South Australia's Central Eyre Peninsula, only…
For Australian investors, the 10-Year US Treasury Yield can serve as an indicator of market volatility, global borrowing costs, equity valuations, capital allocation decisions...a lot of things but those are the main ones. At its core, US Treasury Yield is an interest rate and a return on US government bonds.
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