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MasterChef lessons for your money

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

By MoneyHQ. The run away success of MasterChef Australia has been hard to ignore. Record sponsorship deals, huge television ratings, a positively beaming Curtis Stone, charming celebrity chefs, stressful food challenges  and emotionally gripping stories of personal and team success (and sometimes failure), tears and triumphs which all ultimately culminate to an unmissable grand finale. MasterChef may be about excellence in the kitchen but there are unmissable life lessons to take from the show – particularly about your money. We’re not talking about spending less at the supermarket,... 

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What’s up (or down) with the BDI?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

By David Llewellyn-Smith Coal, iron ore and grain prices are all headed one way – up. Yet the Baltic Dry Index, the generally reliable gauge of demand for bulk commodities is collapsing. Last year the BDI correctly foreshadowed and tracked the mid-year slowdown in the global economy, despite being given short shrift by many bullish commentators seeking to rationalise an upward bias in markets. So what’s going on now? The answer appears to be the QLD floods. As Reuters reports: Australia’s key coal port of Gladstone said on Sunday devastating floods have left it so short of... 

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The dominoes of inflation…

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

By Bear Feller. Over the last couple of months this column has been used as a forum to articulate my concerns over various risks to the economy and the markets, especially risks seen through a macroeconomic and geopolitical lens in an age where traditional methods of fundamental and technical analysis are proving to be less reliable. The biggest geo/macro risk I see to the economy, especially to Australia where I’m based, is of course the collapse of the Chinese economy; a centrally-planned giant whose dabbling in capitalism over the past 20 years has bequeathed tremendous growth to the... 

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A winter of discontent, a summer of stagflation…

Thursday, December 23, 2010

By Bear Feller. As Christmas edges closer, the silly season is in full swing. Not only has your usually punctilious writer neglected his usual Tuesday afternoon deadline, but colleagues have been doing bizarre things at end-of-year parties, television has been getting steadily worse and the markets have been even further removed than usual from reality. Two cases in point are copper prices and the Australian dollar, two interlinked phenomena for more reasons of financial speculation than economic fundamentals. Increasingly too, their individual price levels are dictated by speculation,... 

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The China Factor

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

By Greg Peel. While the most dominant theme of 2010 has been the European debt crisis, jointly and severably concerns over Chinese monetary policy have also kept investors awake at night. The great fear is that having been fundamental in dragging the world rather quickly out of what may have been the Great Depression II, Beijing’s inexperience might yet derail the whole process. It has been to my great amusement in 2010 that every time there is a positive data read out of China – be it a GDP result, a manufacturing PMI or a round a round of monthly production and sales data – global... 

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The China Factor

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By Greg Peel. While the most dominant theme of 2010 has been the European debt crisis, jointly and severably concerns over Chinese monetary policy have also kept investors awake at night. The great fear is that having been fundamental in dragging the world rather quickly out of what may have been the Great Depression II, Beijing’s inexperience might yet derail the whole process. It has been to my great amusement in 2010 that every time there is a positive data read... Read More

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Who made the Value.able grade?

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By Roger Montgomery. The Value.able class of 2010 is indeed all class. Your nominations for the A1 stocks to watch in 2011 are fine examples of the sorts of companies that I eagerly seek for my own portfolio (with the exception of the odd recalcitrant student who diverged from the lessons learned). I haven’t yet decided which will be revealed on Sky’s Twelve Shares of Christmas special tonight at 7pm, although the shortlist may be obvious from the numbers presented in the... Read More

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Tips and guides

The real cost of credit card debt

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Few of us are without at least one credit card these days, they’re easy to get, they’re convenient – particularly if you’re travelling and need fast access to money, they make us feel wealthier and they give us instant gratification when we want something. We say “feel wealthier” because rather than actually being wealthier, credit [...]

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Research

The Researched View: December 6

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Every Monday morning we deliver a macro investing wrap of the best of the world’s content from domestic and international websites. Here’s what matters for the week ahead: Sydney’s property woes are a test case for the rest of Australia Karen Maley, writing for Business Spectator has written about Sydney’s property market woes, and despite [...]

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Property

The Researched View: December 6

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Every Monday morning we deliver a macro investing wrap of the best of the world’s content from domestic and international websites. Here’s what matters for the week ahead: Sydney’s property woes are a test case for the rest of Australia Karen Maley, writing for Business Spectator has written about Sydney’s property market woes, and despite [...]

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Charts

Will we finish where we started?

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Will the ASX200 and All Ords finish up where they started? Well, here’s hoping. Below is a chart that indicates where the markets started on January 4, 2010, the first trading day, up until this morning. With less than 20 trading days to go, the question many market participants are asking is will we end [...]

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