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,…
2018 ASX 200 Winners and Losers
Twice a year Aussie investors are treated to summary listings of the best and worst performing stocks on the ASX; first for the fiscal year ending on 30 June and again for the calendar year ending on 31 December.The following table from the 10 January digital edition of The West Australian lists the best and…
Beware The Bear Market
Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in US history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for…
Baby Bunting taking bigger growth steps
I fondly recall buying baby goods (or watching my wife buy them) before the birth of our children. Like many expectant parents, we bought new rather than used baby goods, sought advice from a specialist retailer and later regretted buying too much.The pricey baby-heart monitor seemed like a good idea at the time, but was…
Renting for life? Housing shift requires rethink of renters’ rights
By Kate Shaw, University of Melbourne Australia is the world capital for property speculation. Australians play property like Monopoly: buying, selling, demolishing, rebuilding, extending, renovating, always with the promise of appreciation on resale. The contribution to GDP of real estate transactions alone is the highest in the world, and three times higher than that in…
A-REIT Sector – Defensive Phoenix Rising from the Ashes
Given the fact that A-REITS are required to return profits to shareholders in the form of dividends, they should act as defensive stalwarts in tough times. Dividend yield coupled with share price appreciation has historically provided attractive opportunities for investors. Then along came the GFC and the REIT sector turned out to be built of…
Fundamentals: By the Numbers – Sirtex Medical (SRX)
Few things get a retail investor’s blood pumping more than the risk/reward prospects in the biotech sector. New drugs mean the potential for big profits. If an experimental treatment receives commercial approval, the share price skyrockets. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. If clinical trials are delayed or fail, share price plummets in a heartbeat….
The Buy and Hold Investing Strategy – Will Rising Oil Prices be the Final Nail in the Coffin?
In January 2008, the price of oil reached the century mark – $100 a barrel – for the first time ever. By May 2008, American investment banking giant Goldman Sachs was predicting the price of oil would reach $200 a barrel within two years. It did not. In September 2008, another American investment bank –…
PENNY STOCKS: 6 Recent Coal IPOs
Precious metal explorers dominated the float market in the past three years as companies took advantage of a higher gold price to raise capital. Coal explorers had less fanfare. Yet a group of six coal initial public offerings – one of the best-performed segments of the IPO market – may have further to go if…
Lifescience looks a sector to target in 2014
Freelancer Ltd’s soaring sharemarket debut has sparked predictions of a rush of information technology floats and further gains in small tech stocks in 2014. Less considered has been stunning rallies in several small lifescience stocks and the prospect of a breakout year for biotech. ASX-listed biotech stocks gained an average 53 per cent last year,…
