Under the Radar Biotechnology Stocks Approaching Clinical Trials
Investors with high risk appetites gravitate towards the biotechnology sub-sector of healthcare stocks where clinical trials sometimes yield significant share price movement. Depending on the treatment and the market size of the affected population, positive announcements regarding the progress of the trials can reward investors handsomely, at least in the short term. The risk is…
With Crisis Comes Opportunity
Would investors in a “perfect world” ignore the impulse to take advantage of those suffering from a crisis to profit from their collective misery? The GFC drove untold numbers of businesses into the wilderness, with many disappearing entirely. People lost their life savings. Wars are often seen as crises of the highest order. Yet investors…
Mining Sector on Fire
The ASX Minerals and Mining Sector (XMM) has defied year to date malaise, rising about 8% as of 14 February. Financial news outlets are featuring article after article extolling the future of Australian resource companies, especially those involved in mining the metals and minerals vital for the manufacture of EVs (electric vehicles.) After years of…
Earnings and Guidance that Surprises
Regular followers of market news know that one of the unanticipated outcomes of the COVID 19 Pandemic was a stunning increase in the number of people investing in share markets in much of the world, particularly among the young. Professional financial services providers noted the need for educating the newcomers with companies like CBA’s (Commonwealth…
Is It Time to Buy These Iconic ASX Healthcare Names?
The ASX healthcare sector was home to both winners and losers coming on the heels of the COVID 19 Pandemic. Virtually any healthcare company working on COVID diagnostic testing, vaccines, or treatments, had their day in the sun. Not so fortunate were some of the most well-known healthcare stocks on the ASX crushed by the…
The Outlook for Nuclear Power
A decade ago a tsunami in Japan wreaked havoc on a nuclear power plant in that country at Fukushima, dragging down with it global interest in promoting electricity generation from nuclear power. Construction of new plants and refitting of existing nuclear plants slowed to a crawl and the price of uranium dropped, following rising concerns…
Lithium Stocks on the Radar Screens of ASX Investors
The law of supply and demand is arguably the most fundamental of all economic principles. Nowhere is the impact of the supply/demand balance more evident than in commodities. Regardless of the basic nature of the commodity – hard like iron ore or soft like wheat – if demand for the commodity goes up, increases in…
2021 IPO Winners and Losers
The search for rewarding things to do during COVID 19 lockdowns led a flood of newcomers to share market investing. Younger investors entering the world of stock trading was a trend already underway, but the pandemic fueled that trend. A 12 May article appearing in the US financial website CNBC reported that major US online…
Worst Performers of 2021
For many of us around the world, the New Year is a time to reassess past endeavors and make plans for the future. Share market investors of all ages and in all places are no exception, as existing portfolio holdings are scrutinised and new holdings are considered. For investors, the New Year offers a unique…
Losers in the Latest S&P ASX 200 Index Rebalancing
Over 150 years ago the first regional stock market in Australia was formed in Melbourne. Additional regional exchanges soon followed in Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. It took until 1979 for the first uniform market index to integrate the regional indices into a single index representing the entirety of the Australian stock market activity….
