Here are the views of some professionals who are paid to guess the future with other people's money.
The S&P/ASX 200 jumped 2.07% for the week to 8,804 — the best one-day gain since April — on Trump peace-deal hopes and signs the RBA may have stopped rate rises. US markets were mixed with the NASDAQ off 0.30% and the S&P 500 down 0.04% on the week, despite Friday gains driven by SpaceX's blockbuster IPO debut.
Wall Street's nine-week winning streak ended on a Broadcom-led tech sell-off, with the NASDAQ down 4.18% and the S&P 500 down 2.64% on the week. The S&P/ASX 200 finished down 1.22% as investors rotated into healthcare.
Despite President Trump’s best efforts to play hardball with the Iranian leadership, especially over their future nuclear capabilities and the blocking of the Strait of […]
Wall Street is still betting an Iran war resolution will eventuate without tipping the global economy into recession. The market is ordering a TACO and is not expecting a NACHO, and a peace deal ASAP is critically important for stocks.
On Saturday, I promised to look at value investing after the respected Ned Davis Research strategist Rob Anderson said: "A transition to a rising inflation regime would likely support a shift towards value." So today I ask: what is value investing and what stocks could end up with more investing fans?
US stocks were up again as the evidence builds that maybe a peace deal isn't far away.
Markets are at record highs, yet the world feels anything but settled. In this piece, I weigh up the case for staying fully invested versus pulling back to a more defensive footing – and look at what history, and some of Wall Street’s sharpest minds, tell us about where we go from here.
Is anyone surprised that our market was a loser this week, with the Budget colliding with rising interest rates and the Treasurer telling us our economy is slowing to 1.75% from a previous guess of 2.25%? Throw in the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz and the bigger question has to be this: how come US markets rose this week?
I want to share with you a market assessment of how the Budget might affect shares. This is the analysis from stockbroking firm Morgans. I’ve added a bit of Switzer flavour to the piece.
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