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CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST   After a record closing high and a 92-point rise on the ASX 200 yesterday, a sell-off today was a bit inevitable - we seem top have lost everything we gained. Volatility is often a sign of a change of trend. A little bit of exuberance is leaking out of the market this morning. The  damage is...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We have just ticked past our record closing high of 7162.5 with a 83 point rally this morning, a fresh record close in sight if we can hold on through the afternoon.  Every sector is in positive territory, but it is a particularly good day to be an iron ore miner, with another 5% rise seeing...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Lots going on and not much going on. Today we talk about Chicken Little articles that generate "fear for eyeballs" and should be ignored if they can't tell you when the market is going to hell. We also take you on a journey through Reuters looking for small company ideas. A bit...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Today we talk two sectors that should have good results in August, and we look at the RBA, the Budget and the banks with ANZ's results a bit below expectations with the stock down 2% but the dividend was better-than-expected (ex dividend on Monday). Westpac ex dividend on Thursday next...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The bull market quietly continues. RBA Meeting today. We look at the Westpac results yesterday - a good start to the banks results season - ANZ tomorrow and NAB on Thursday. We also look at the Macquarie results on Friday. US jobs numbers the main release this week (Friday). A Macquarie confe...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST All eyes on the bank results this week, with the sector resurrection tipped to continue after a stellar 12-month recovery. Westpac kicked things off this morning, up 4% in early trade, and  ANZ, NAB and Macquarie all follow this week. We also have results from REA later in the week, with all...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The market behaving itself again, up nearly 4% for the month. FOMC meeting predictable, CPI number yesterday lower-than-expected, nothing to concern ourselves with. Today I have extended our lesson in risk and given you tables of the least risky stocks in the top 200 as well as the most risky...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Today we look at the ETF portfolio and learn some lessons about how to invest for the long term. I also give you a quick lesson in risk, how to measure it and how to compare investments and fund managers taking risk into account. Otherwise there is plenty on the calendar but not much happeni...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Floppy day today but the trend is still our friend as interest rates continue to trend down and virus issues (in India) continue to be ignored. We have a look at Afterpay and highlight that there are some stocks that are driven by sentiment first and fundamentals second and this is one. We...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. For the second week in a row, we hit Monday morning with record highs in sight after another big Friday night on Wall St. Our chances of breaching those record highs likely ride on a big few days of US results, with 40% of the S&P 500’s market cap reporting this week. Elswehere we have...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. STRATEGY BY HENRY: Today is a reminder that markets do go down as well as up. With the Summit insight, the market has baulked at the Hilary Step. Seems CV19 has reared its head again as an issue as cases climb. Should we be alarmed, not yet but today will be interesting to see if its BTD or...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. We talk about the Market, Risk and Trend as part of our regular strategy discussions. For the moment the answers are "Up, Low and Friendly".  Not much to report today, volumes low, case numbers rising but ignored, economic backdrop quiet, earnings results supportive - waiting for...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Record highs are in sight for our local market this week after another night of record highs in the US on Friday. The ASX 200 is now just 99 points shy of the record close set in February 2020. Meanwhile, after a few quiet weeks we are making up for it with a corporate calendar jam-packed w...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. We cover a few things today - the bull market, driven by falling interest rates and a "risk on" sentiment swing - the capital raisings that are proliferating as the Ducks Quack for more - the Z1P capital raising and a look at the research after their quarterly with some interestin...

 CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. The market is going "risk on" again as interest rates peak and even show signs of falling.  The barometer of market enthusiasm - Bitcoin - hit a record high and the capital raisings and corporate deals are cranking up again. When the Ducks are Quacking...the industry will feed the...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Back from Easter in Merimbula and the bull market continues. Today we look at what we have missed with a few market observations, some stock recommendations and one small bit of tinkering in the Income portfolio. We look at the ASX 200 VIX at the lowest level since 2018 which suggests that m...

A couple of tweaks to the MT Growth Portfolio this morning, bringing our cash level down as the market continues to behave and paints a fairly bullish picture on both the technical and macro front. It's another quiet week on the corporate calendar but bank results season looms large...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A slight pullback today after a solid 5 days of gains and a very good week. Vaccine news has sapped some enthusiasm with CSL modestly lower, and travels stocks off around 2.5% in the morning. Volumes remain light with the banking sector giving up recent gains, CBA down around 0.5%. COL has fi...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Another very solid rise for the ASX 200 breaking through the 7000 level at a 13-month high. Banks and big miners leading the charge. News overnight that the US Fed is more than happy to run the US economy hot and sees any inflation spike as temporary. the inflation target remains a sustained...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The ASX 200 is up around 80 points to 6905 as we play catch up to the US markets over Easter. Quiet start to a shortened week with the RBA meeting in focus. In today's strategy, we look at the risks out there in the wilds and decide that the market is looking beyond the Dragons to the ba...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The market is sliding nicely into Easter. A good quarter last quarter - ASX 200 up 3.09% led by Banks up 14.8% with resources flat and REITs slightly down. Oil up 22%, Gold down 10%, iron ore up 7% and most metals well up this year so far. Today we talk about Broker Research and the bias to o...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A solid end to the quarter with the market up 78 at midday - which makes up for the 98 point reversal yesterday. Rates keep going up, the Archegos hedge fund debacle gives us a window on how the market can go wrong in a blink without warning (although we seem to have survived), we look at the...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We're flopping from a good open this morning - we have a look at the Archegos hedge fund meltdown which has overtones of the GFC - we look at relative versus actual recommendations and we get some wisdom from Men in Black. We also look at some buy and sell signals. Not much else to conce...

A look at the US controversy over the weekend, where a “Mystery block trade frenzy” wiped $46bn from Wall Street. Locally, Brisbane has plunged back into a 3-day lockdown and we have a lot of action in the market with a few big announcements this morning. We also take a quick look at BET’s investor presentation and what we have in store for the rest of the week. 

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we look at the Fat Pitch approach to investment - patience is a luxury that you have as an investor but not as a Baseball Batsman. The senses are tingling about a slowdown in recovery assumptions and the possible top in interest rates, and we look at the difference that a week makes whe...