July is a very underrated month of the year for global equities, ranking as the second-best month for both the S&P 500 and ASX 200.Since 1980, the S&P/ASX 200 has averaged a 2.13% gain in July and finished higher 72% of the time.Source: Market IndexOur S&P/ASX 200 Total Returns data goes back to 20…
Every oil shock eventually returns to the same narrow stretch of water: the Strait of Hormuz (SoH), the channel between Oman and Iran that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil. For more than half a century, it has been the pressure point of the global energy system. When geopolitical tensions c…
FY26 is done and dusted, and let's be real here, it was a terrible time to be an Australia index investor. The S&P/ASX 200 finished the year pretty flat, up just 2.7%, in a year where miners single-handily propped the index into positive territory, and portfolio-favourites like healthcare, tech and…
Healthcare stocks have followed a far-too-familiar and painful playbook. You liked it at $100, so you loved it at $90, then $80, then $70, and before you know it you've averaged down to the point of no return.But the past couple of weeks have shown a serious change in character for the downward-spi…
It's not often you see a slow-moving and defensive sector like staples rally almost 20% in just seven weeks. Over the same period, the S&P/ASX 200 has gained just 2%.This pivot has brought heavyweights Woolworths to its highest since December 2021 and Coles to fresh all-time highs.Now such outperfo…
Welcome back to the Short Seller Series – A recap of the most heavily shorted stocks on the ASX and those experiencing significant changes to short interest over the past week.Short selling data is four days behind today's date because reporting is not mandatory until three business days after the…
Welcome back to the 52-Week Series, where we recap the S&P/ASX 200 stocks that have hit fresh yearly highs and lows over the past week. Tracking this data point helps identify emerging trends across various stocks and sectors.When clusters of stocks within a sector reach new highs or lows, it often…
Few commodities do drama like lithium. In 2020, you could buy a tonne of lithium carbonate in China for around CNY39,500. Two years later, at the peak of the electric-vehicle mania in November 2022, that same tonne changed hands for CNY597,500 – a fifteen-fold surge that minted fortunes among those…
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