It's historically a bad month for stocks, made all the more ominous this year by a combination of fiscal and monetary crosswinds that will add to the tumult. Read More
Pacific Digest
Australia's biggest natural gas infrastructure company has successfully outbid a rival and is on track to acquire several key assets in the Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund portfolio. Read More
Australian investors are anxious about their country’s equity market, with many idling substantial portions of their portfolios in cash. Ironically, such behavior could actually bode well for the market’s near-term performance. Read More
Australia's central bank must weigh a bevy of sometimes contradictory data sets in arriving at its short-, medium- and long-term policy positions. Nevertheless, it's set of issues continues to argue that it is indeed a lucky country. Read More
The Australian dollar has a well-known and well-earned reputation as a "commodity currency." But other factors are beginning to influence the way it moves. Read More
Australia's biggest pipeline owner/operator will now be able to up its offer for a complementary collection of assets that could become the subject of a bidding war. Read More
Transaction costs can be a major hurdle for investment performance. Fortunately, the Australian Securities Exchange finally faces competition, which should eventually put Australia at parity in terms of trading costs with other developed-world markets. Read More
Italy turned back Die Mannschaft's latest great soccer hopes hours before Germany's resistance to immediate help for Europe's periphery appeared to crumble. Read More
AE Portfolio Aggressive Holding Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX: RIO, NYSE; RIO) extended its iron ore commitments this week because, despite short-term headwinds, the long-term demand story from the Middle Kingdom is very much intact. Read More
The Australian coal industry faces numerous headwinds, but one of the country’s youngest billionaires sees opportunity in the sector from which he made his fortune. Amid such industry consolidation, we consider what opportunities remain for the individual investor. Read More