Advances in technology have opened up a huge range of overseas markets to traders and investors the world over. Once the domain of those with either the technological know-how to do it themselves, a large capital base to pay the exorbitant brokerage rates or those with a true passion to trade offshore markets, the ability…
At $26.7 billion Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) clocks in at Australia’s 11th largest listed company. RIO is also listed on the LSE and NYSE with its mining assets spread across the globe. RIO’s share price suffered enormously during the 2008 bear market falling from an adjusted high of just under $125 (pre a share split…
For decades BHP has been the “big Australian” being the country’s largest market capitalised stock. But every now and then it gets knocked off its perch as it has been in the past by Telstra and currently by CBA. BHP is currently capitalised at A$121.4 billion on the ASX compared to CBA clocking in at…
Following from the first 6 focus areas for growth that I listed down last week, this week I want to continue by giving you the last 5 of my focus areas. You cannot worry about or be scared of the outcome “Opportunities are clearer to me now that I am not scared of the outcome.”…
In my younger days, after majoring in computer science and mathematics at a university in South Africa, I found myself, after a brief career on the technical side in mainframe computing, working as a sales rep for a large multi-national computer company selling mainframe computer solutions to corporate clients. I was earning a huge income…
Friday 8th August’s fall of 74 points took the ASX200 back to a level that it was at some 9½ months ago. One could argue that the Australian bourse has marked time over this period. However no market marks time, it is always moving and in so doing provides invaluable information that provides clues on…
CSL Limited (ASX:CSL) is a $31.7 billion market capitalised company and is an ASX20 Index constituent. In fact, it is the 10th largest listed company in Australia by market cap and is the country’s largest listed Health stock and therefore would be a key holding in many managed funds and SMSF’s. From September 2011 to…
Following on from last week’s topic of the fallacy of gold being a great inflationary hedge, this week I would like to take a look at the price of gold compared to the price of stocks. As we discussed last week, there are many in the investing community who believe that an investment in gold…
This week I would like to explore the notion held by many investors, and economic theorists, that investing in gold is the ultimate store of value and a hedge against inflation, and that it is a ‘safe’ investment that will outperform shares over the long term. The argument put forward by the ‘gold bugs’ is…
Worley Parsons (WOR) is a $4.5 billion market capitalised constituent of the ASX50 Index whose share price has been in a down trend for over three years. There are a number of technical patterns and events that have occurred over the last seven to eight months that are signalling a high probability set up for…
