After months of rumours, the possibility of a card surcharges ban was announced as a reality in 6 months time. The Reserve Bank of Australia published its long-awaited Conclusions Paper…
Apple is a scary entrant
Some of the ASX-listed Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) stocks took a beating last week, with AfterPay (ASX: APT) dropping about 14% and Zip Co…
Thursday 24 December 2020
Probably the highlight of the great work we do here at Stocks Down Under is the afternoon every second Friday when our founders, Marc Kennis and Stuart…
Monday 21 December 2020
If you’ve been around the investment scene for a while you would have heard the term ‘contrarian’. A contrarian investor is one who likes stocks that everyone…
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…
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…
25 October 2020
Last week, AfterPay’s (ASX: APT) share reached our price target as it shot through the $100 barrier. The company announced a deal with WestPac (ASX: WBC) that outlined…
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…