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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...