Looking out of our hotel room window in a small town in Portugal I noticed an oversized parking meter with a car connected by cable. It wasn’t a parking meter it was an electric car recharging point. It made me reflect on the number of electric cars we see in Europe and on the dominance…
HOW TO PLAY THE HOUSING MARKET BOTTOM The CBA has had the highest level of home loan applications in the last week and has for the last six months. This is a Corelogic chart showing the ‘election effect’ on clearance rates. This is Citi’s forecast for house prices…they concur with a host of other commentators…
The shock election result at the weekend is very good news for the bank sector. The sector has already reacted with a sharp rise in all the big four banks, as well as Macquarie, BEN and BOQ. What we have to ask now is whether this is a sugar hit or a bottom in the…
Trant – def: (A rant on Trump) – Trant – verb, noun – verb: Trant; 3rd person present: Trants; past tense: Tranted; past participle: Tranted; gerund or present participle: Tranting. Speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way about Trump. “She was still Tranting on about the US President” – synonyms – hold…
The Marcus Today rules include never writing about religion, politics or the AFL but its unavoidable today. Rather than pass opinion here are some unbiased collected bullet points: Quick stock market points: Good for the stock market. The Liberals are pro-business. GDP forecasts will remain unchanged but if anything a lift in business confidence post-election…
THIS TIME IT IS DIFFERENT – By Henry Resources – the new formula: DEBT DOWN + COSTS DOWN + DIVIDENDS UP + NO ACQUISITIONS + SWEAT ASSETS + HIGH COMMODITY PRICES = HAPPY SHAREHOLDERS This time it is different – How many times have we heard that about markets or a commodity. It is usually…
LISTEN – you can read this article or click on the podcast below to listen to it… My daughter was eighteen recently. We pride ourselves on our Birthday cards in the Padley family, we like to pass deep messages of truth and love. And so it was that her Birthday card from her Dad went…
With the major banks accounting for 25% of the ASX 200 you can argue that they also account of 25% of total brokerage available to brokers. Trading banks is an essential part of broking, persuading people to buy and sell banks is a foundation activity for commission generation. Is it any surprise then that the…
My article on Franking Credits on Livewire, click to read: BEST PERFORMING FUNDS We have systems that track fund manager movements. As a private investor you can track fund managers through their monthly or quarterly investment fund reports available on their websites. Almost all fund managers provide these monthly reports on their funds. These almost always…
