Australian Shares Archives

15 Dec Macro Musing, 2023 Outlook & How The Mighty Have Fallen

Posted at 04:39h in Australian Shares, Banking stocks, Big Tech, Corporate earnings, Economics, Inflation/Deflation, Interest Rates, Technology shares, Technology shares, Tesla, US Shares

Part 1: Macro Musing and 2023 Part 2: How the mighty have fallen Macro Musing and 2023 As anticipated, macro-economic factors – inflation and rising interest rates – have led the markets in 2022. Inflation has proven to be higher than expected a year ago and the ensuing cash...

22 Jun Coming Off The 2021 Sugar High

Posted at 01:06h in Australian Shares, Corporate earnings, Economics, Inflation/Deflation, Interest Rates, Investing, Uncategorized, US Shares

Falling equity and bond markets Higher interest rates and stubborn inflation Risk of recession rising Earnings estimates too high Buy the dip? Risks are rising “On balance, the risks for investors have risen substantially, so you need to assess what works for you to sleep...

07 Mar Uncertainty is the word, our changing world

Posted at 22:13h in Australian Shares, Economics, Geo-political risk, GOLD, Inflation/Deflation, Interest Rates, Oil stocks, US Shares

As one twitter commentator quipped after the Russian attack on the Ukraine “Young investors who only started investing 2-3 years ago now have been through a one in a lifetime pandemic, tech bubble 2.0 and Potential WW3. Not bad young bloods”. Ongoing major flooding across NSW and...

01 Feb Glass half full or half empty?

Posted at 04:25h in Australian Shares, Economics, Economics and Politics, Inflation/Deflation, Interest Rates, Investing, US Shares

The worst start to the year for US stocks since 2008. How did it all go so wrong, so quickly? Well in the same way as investors chose to ignore many risks in 2021, many have awoken to the harsh reality that sentiment has turned and what...

01 Dec 2022 outlook, Is the music still playing?

Posted at 01:11h in 21st Century Investing, Australian Shares, Big Tech, COVID, Economics, Economics and Politics, Technology shares, US Shares

Macro overview Make no mistake there is a very noisy chorus of doomsters in financial markets. Some so negative that they are either sitting in 100% cash or using financial products (options, bear funds, buying the volatility index) to protect their portfolios against a 20%+ downside...

04 Oct Why I Love A Sharemarket Sell-Off

Posted at 05:43h in Australian Shares, COVID, Economics, Economics and Politics, Inflation/Deflation, Investing, US Shares

The correction we had to have September lived up the bear’s warnings and the ASX200 fell 2.69%. But with dividends included the total return came in at negative 1.85% using Standard & Poor’s data. The US markets fared worse with the S&P500 down 4.76% and 4.65%...

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...

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,...