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Men are from BHP, Women are from Afterpay

16 December 2020 There’s an interesting story near the end of Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam’s 1998 memoir of his boyhood in 1950s West Virginia doing experimental rocketry. Hickam’s mother tells his father that she is leaving him, moving to another house that she is buying. The father asks where she got the money. The stock market,…

ByMarc KennisDecember 16, 2020

Investing during the Corona crisis

24 March 2020 We don’t have to tell you that for most people right now the world seems to be facing an economic and financial crisis of Biblical proportions – as Australia is not proving immune to the Corona crisis. A little over a month ago, on 20 February 2020, Australia’s ASX200 Index was at an…

ByMarc KennisMarch 24, 2020

Market trouble spots to avoid in 2020

15 January 2020 Everyone likes a good bull market, and in Australia you could say that for over a decade now we’ve been largely in bull-market mode. Following on from the Global Financial Crisis that took the S&P/ASX200 down a disastrous 54% between November 2007 and March 2009, the subsequent recovery has been interrupted by only…

ByMarc KennisJanuary 15, 2020

Investing in the Year of the Rat

12 January 2020 The new Lunar Year 2020 is the Year of the Rat. In this article we look at what investors should expect in Australia’s equity market in the course of this auspicious year. 2019, the Year of the Pig, has been a great year for investors in the ASX’s more established companies. The…

ByadminJanuary 12, 2020

2020, the Golden Year

12 January 2020 As we all know, when there’s trouble in the world, the price of gold naturally spikes. So, for instance, on 3 January tensions flared in the Middle East after a US airstrike killed the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Suddenly spot gold was 2.6% higher at US$1,569 an ounce. To the uninitiated this…

ByadminJanuary 12, 2020

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