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Directors’ share trades – a great indicator for the rest of us

Thursday 17 December 2020 Listed companies these days are complicated things. The technology, the products, the markets and even the terminology just seems to get more complicated with every passing year. Which means that for many investors, be they professional or lay, it can get harder and harder to stay on top of a company and…

ByMarc KennisDecember 17, 2020

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

Brazilian opportunities for ASX-listed companies

15 December 2020 If there’s a country worth paying attention to right now for investors in ASX-listed resources companies, it has got to be Brazil. This gigantic Latin American country is about 9% bigger than Australia in terms of its land area, and, of course, it is much more populous, with Brazil’s 212 million leaving Australia’s…

ByMarc KennisDecember 15, 2020

Despite Facebook’s troubles, the Technology sector is still your best bet for high growth

14 December 2020 It was the announcement that no-one saw coming. On Wednesday 9 December America’s Federal Trade Commission sued in federal court to break up Facebook, alleging that the company is a monopoly that abuses its market power. The FTC has looked at Facebook with the help of the attorneys general of 46 US states…

ByMarc KennisDecember 14, 2020

Why Australians are still drinking beer…and how to profit from it

9 December 2020 Don’t miss Friday Beers with Marc & Stuart Every second Friday afternoon the founders of Stocks Down Under, Marc Kennis and Stuart Roberts, get together on screen to discuss the Australian equity market. We call our show Friday Beers with Marc & Stuart and you can watch it on the Stocks Down Under website…

ByMarc KennisDecember 9, 2020

Linius Technologies: The video Whizzards

8 December 2020 Linius Technologies (ASX:LNU) has been listed on ASX since May 2016 and the share price has seen some high highs and low lows. Specifically, a high of 21 cents back in January 2018 and a low of less than 1 cent during the worst of the Corona Crash in March this year. The…

ByMarc KennisDecember 8, 2020

Can these ASX nickel stocks party like it’s 1969?

8 December 2020 It’s been a good year for nickel, Element 28 on the periodic table. Last Friday the commodity closed at US$16,354.50 a tonne on the London Metals Exchange. Back at the Corona Crash low of 23 March it was only about US$10,800 a tonne. However, it’s not clear yet whether nickel will break the…

ByMarc KennisDecember 8, 2020

Why diamonds are becoming investors’ best friends…again

4 December 2020 On 3 December 2020 in Resources Stocks Down Under we discussed a relatively new company on ASX called Burgundy Diamond Mines (ASX: BDM). Burgundy is exploring for diamonds in Canada and a lot of investors have been taking notice lately because one of Burgundy’s directors is Michael O’Keeffe, the Montreal-based mining executive with…

ByMarc KennisDecember 4, 2020

Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday

3 December 2020 Every last Friday of November, right after Thanksgiving in the United States, shoppers around the world go nuts on Black Friday sales. Black Friday derived its name from the term “into the black”, which refers to becoming profitable as this has historically been the one day retailors could count on massive sales and…

ByMarc KennisDecember 3, 2020

Our top 5 emerging iron ore plays

2 December 2020 One of the more remarkable things to have happened in the commodities world in recent days has been the rise in the iron ore price. Back in early April 2020 it was trading at US$81 a tonne, where ‘it’ was 63.5% Fe iron ore fines with the price of freight included when delivered…

ByMarc KennisDecember 2, 2020