There is always, always, always something to fear when it comes to the stock market, and fear is good, because it’s the fear that creates opportunities.

This is the Australian Results Calendar for the upcoming results season. Before you rely on this: Errors and Omissions Excepted. We produce this on a best-efforts basis. Do not rely on it as gospel. We take no responsibility for you if these dates are inaccurate. Some dates are a guess, sourced from Reuters but even…

The end of the Financial Year and the scores on the doors show the ASX 200 up 9.67%. Got to say, it's a bit flattering because the timing of the beginning of the financial year was just after a 13.8% market correction. If you had included last June 2022 in the calculation, then the ASX…

One of the highlights of our trip to the UK was our visit to the Eden Project. I had wanted to go there for some years, but it was always a bit too far from where we were. I first heard about it when it was a derelict clay pit in Cornwall with an adventurous…

Las Vegas houses some of the world's most magnificent hotels. The Wynn, the Encore, the Bellagio, the Venetian, the Palazzo, the Palms, the Trump Hotel, the Aria, the Mandarin Oriental, the Mirage, the MGM Grand and Caesars Palace, to name just a few. And Caesars Palace in particular. It's the most colossal hotel and casino…

It’s all so short-term when you write daily. I sometimes go back to our newsletters from a year or more ago and, with the knowledge of hindsight, read in minute detail the reaction to overnight events and realise that we look too closely at the market. Much too closely, because, as always, there are only…

THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON There is a quote in the Richest Man in Babylon that says: “But too often does youth thinks that age knows only the wisdom of days that have gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this; the sun shines today as the sun shone when your father was born, and…

This Article was written by Foundation 49, a body designed to raise awareness of Men’s Health issues and, in particular, the need for 50 year olds to get colonoscopies. It was written in 2014. “It’s quite nice having a day off and waking up to a nice hot cup of tea and someone telling you you…

Another year down. Our 24th. We survived. I guess it’s hard for some newsletter writers, journalists and commentators to constantly work under deadlines, deadlines that constantly renew the moment they are met. I admire you all, I admire my competitors (the good ones). You are a tough lot doing that all year. But luckily, Henry…