A Contrarian View of a Battered Mining Industry
Newcomers to share market investing searching for “how to” advice quickly learn that most investing strategies have mirror opposites. Value investors follow the maxim, “buy low, sell high”. The opposite strategy is growth investing, where the maxim is “buy high, sell higher”. While some might call these trading strategies rather than longer focused investing strategies, trend…
Buying on the Dip
While stock price fluctuations are to be expected, during dire and even simply uncertain economic conditions the fluctuations can be wild, some bordering on the irrational. Such fluctuations often present buying opportunities for investors with an appetite for risk. In today’s market there exists ample opinion to support both a Bear outlook and a moderately…
Premium – How to Analyse Company Financials
For many investors financial analysis forms the foundation of their investment decision. In their minds, it is the essential component in the process of evaluating a company as a potential share market investment. By digging into the crown jewels of a company’s annual report -the income statement; the statement of comprehensive income; the balance sheet;…
24 Stock Bets For 2011
A key stockpicking strategy for 2011 is to find stocks that will run the hardest as global markets rebound. With this strategy in mind, TheBull approached three brokers to each identify four Top-100 and four Ex-100 stocks best positioned to capitalise on recovering global markets, a continuing resources boom and healthier dividend payouts. Roger Leaning,…
Why the US stockmarket is driving the gold price higher
Among gold investors, the major drivers of the gold price are well-known. From mine production and central-bank sales to jewelry and investment demand, gold’s fundamentals have been and will continue to be extensively studied. But over the past year, a curious and sometimes dominating new gold driver has emerged. Believe it or not, it is…
Life as a full-time trader – Fay Benjamin offers her survivor tactics
Fay Benjamin has been a “serious” trader for seven years. Her transition from dabbler to committed investor was an effortless road thanks to a supportive partner who recognized the signs and backed her ability. Her biggest lesson has been learning to trust not only her system but herself. A strong advocate of a theory put…
As temperatures rise, tropical forests absorb less CO2
By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Alexia Attwood, The Conversation Rising temperatures are linked to a decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption by tropical forests, according to a 50-year study published today. Greenhouse gases, such as CO2, contribute to global warming, sea level rises and extreme weather events, previous studies have shown. Forests absorb CO2…
The Next Boom
We’ve had an Asia boom, a tech boom, a biotech boom and a resources boom: where next? Booms in various sectors come and go on the stockmarket. In recent years we have seen the great tech boom of 1999-2000, the China boom, a flurry of interest in biotech stocks, and then a succession of commodities…
Perma-QE: Lessons from Bernanke’s Latest Splurge
AFTER months of “quanticipation”, the Federal Reserve has finally done it. Ben Bernanke yesterday announced another round of asset purchases. The much-vaunted third round of quantitative easing (QE3) is now a reality. And this time it’s permanent (or, at least, open-ended). First, let’s get the details out of the way: • The Fed will buy…
The Next Big Thing – The Gas Revolution And Stocks To Watch
As the global economic outlook remains uncertain and the purveyors of doom reign supreme, more people are taking their money out of equities and putting it into gold, bonds, term deposits, and perhaps even under the mattress or buried safely in the garden. Yet investing history seems to tell us equities win out in the…
