Dear %%first_name%%,
These markets are really providing a test for optimists like me! With scary numbers like the seven-year lows for oil prices and a US junk bond fund causing investor jitters, that Christmas rally is looking less likely.
Time to get that long-term perspective. How worried should we be?
Also in today’s Switzer Super Report, our three-part series on investing for kids concludes. Paul Rickard looks at the more indirect investment options such as insurance and investment bonds and education savings plans. Make sure you read that fine print!
In Buy, Sell, Hold – what the brokers say Oil Search and Woodside get upgrades thanks to that bid being scuttled.
James Dunn also takes a look at some bright spots in the battered industrial sector while Gary Stone takes a chartist view of the recent market swings – yes the ASX is really going to be tested!
And in Super Stock Selectors, it’s a tale of two health stocks with Regis on the likes list but Medibank on the dislikes list.
Sincerely,
Peter Switzer