Danielle Ecuyer, Author at Shareplicity

16 Aug Interest rates, record stock market highs and meme stock mania

Posted at 01:07h in Australian Shares, Corporate earnings, Economics, Inflation/Deflation, US Shares

Despite rolling lockdowns in Australia’s two largest cities and the rise of the Delta variant in the USA, stocks markets have continued their upward grind to record highs. August is the continuation of US Q2 (second quarter) results, and thus far FactSet reported that 87% of...

08 Jun The US Bull Market has legs!

Posted at 04:22h in Economics, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares

The US bull market has legs A couple of weeks back, my son asked “Mum, what’s a good stock to buy in the US?”. (Bear in mind he has been investing in the US markets for well over a year and does have the benefit of a...

07 May Big Tech – opportunity knocking

Posted at 01:48h in 21st Century Investing, Big Tech, Corporate earnings, Economics, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares

I want to talk about Big Tech. In 2015/16 I restructured my SMSF share portfolio. I sold my Australian bank shares in 2015 and I was looking to diversify my share holdings into more secular growth themes and decided to start investing directly in the US...

22 Feb On the Edge – a sell off on the cards?

Posted at 01:25h in Australian Shares, Banking stocks, Corporate earnings, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, Iron Ore, Oil stocks, Technology shares

Reporting season update As the Australian reporting season moves to the busiest week on the calendar, let’s take a look at what factors have been moving the Australian stock market. Earnings season to date has seen around 140 companies report for the FNArena calendar of stocks...

18 Jan What’s on the horizon for 2021?

Posted at 00:46h in Australian Shares, Banking stocks, Corporate earnings, COVID, Economics, Economics and Politics, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, Iron Ore, Oil stocks, Technology shares, Technology shares, US Shares

Happy New Year Shareplicity friends. As the first anniversary of the first reported COVID case passed without fanfare, I want you all to consider what’s install for the next twelve months. Here’s where we are at here in Australia and in the US, as we head...

03 Dec Twenty-twenty, That’s a wrap!

Posted at 05:46h in 21st Century Investing, Australian Shares, COVID, Economics, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares, Vaccine

Casting an eye back over 2020 shows yet again that forecasting the future and hence the stock market is fraught with risk. No matter how many times we were all warned by former Presidents, from George Bush Jnr to Obama and billionaire Ted-X speaker Bill Gates,...

26 Aug The Fed’s liquidity train, what it means for gold, inflation and equities.

Posted at 20:10h in Australian Shares, Economics, GOLD, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares

I had the good fortune to participate in a live webinar with the former head of Barings’ Research this week, Michael Howell, who runs CrossBorder Capital in London. A link to the presentation is available at the end. Michael has specialised in the analysis of global...

19 Aug Value, growth and rotation – what do these terms mean for share investors?

Posted at 01:20h in Australian Shares, Corporate earnings, COVID, Economics and Politics, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares, Vaccine

No one could blame investors for being confused at times by share markets and the industry jargon. 'Value and Growth' shares – what do these terms mean? The tag' value and growth' refer to the underlying shares and the category to which the company can be broadly...

28 Jul What to look out for during the corporate results season!

Posted at 00:19h in Australian Shares, Corporate earnings, Investing, Technology shares, Trading, US Shares

We are about to enter the most important period for most of Australia’s listed companies - the full year corporate earnings season. Given how much economic uncertainty is out there due to the pandemic, the one thing we can all count is share price volatility. So, let’s...

16 Jul Are we experiencing another DOTCOM-like bubble?

Posted at 04:15h in 21st Century Investing, Investing, Technology shares, US Shares

Are we experiencing another DOTCOM-like bubble? There is no denying the buzz and euphoria around technology shares post the March 2020 corona share market crash. The NASDAQ index has risen over 50% from the March lows to a new record high. Robinhood traders and the biggest...