This Month
Australians pour record $5b into Wall Street as bulls run wild
Investors are hoping the US can pull off a ‘three-peat’ after the world’s most important equity market capped the best two years in a quarter-century.
- Joshua Peach
January 2024
Wall Street’s take on the S&P 500’s record
The benchmark has finally erased the nearly 25 per cent sell-off that began in 2022. Here are what several market watchers think.
November 2023
Bank of America sees S&P 500 hitting record 5000 next year
US equities will rally “not because we expect the Fed to cut, but because of what the Fed has accomplished”, the bank’s strategists said.
- Farah Elbahrawy
August 2023
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Are zero-day options going to blow up the market?
Wall Street is divided over zero-day-to-expiry options that allow traders to speculate over short-term stock moves.
- Jonathan Shapiro
March 2023
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
This London strategist has a grim message for Australian investors
London-based markets strategist Ian Harnett says avoiding a recession will require a miracle as he forecasts another leg down in sharemarkets.
- Updated
- Jonathan Shapiro
November 2022
Goldman cuts S&P 500 earnings growth forecast to 0pc
Corporate profit margins are at high risk of shrinking as the US economy continues to slow and a recession poses a greater threat.
- Timothy Moore
July 2022
Buy, hold, sell: Five bargain ETFs to refresh your portfolio
The market is offering quite a few end-of-financial-year deals right now.
December 2021
Global investors pump money into Chinese equity ETFs
Some now see opportunities in the beaten-up Chinese equity market, which is down by a third from its February peak in dollar terms.
- Steve Johnson
March 2020
ETF investors defy the virus panic
ETF managers' internal data suggests record numbers of investors are piling into bonds and fixed income investments, rather than joining the global sell-off.
- Aleks Vickovich
June 2019
BlackRock, Vanguard and SSGA tighten hold on US boards
The S&P 500's big three are more powerful than ever, but not everyone thinks that is a good idea.
- Owen Walker
April 2019
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Why the momentum trade is set to make a comeback
It's a testing time for portfolios designed to capture the leaders and ditch the laggards in these complex markets.
- Justina Lee
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Wall Street's in record ground. What do investors do now?
It's fine to be pleased about hearty returns, but it's not a good idea to tie your emotions closely to the ups and downs of the stock market, warn the experts.
- AP
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Here be bears: warnings that could spoil the S&P 500 party
The market bulls might be celebrating, but lend an ear to the bears, because the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 10,000-point round trip has done little to shut them up
- Sarah Ponczek
US companies set to report lower profits on higher revenue
S&P 500 companies' results face tough comparisons with last year, when the US tax code overhaul helped boost profits.
- Caroline Valetkevitch
Watch these market correlations for warnings
It's not the prices, it's the correlations between different measures that tells the story, say JP Morgan's strategists.
- Joanna Ossinger
October 2017
Australian ETF fees are rising, Zenith finds
Fees linked to EFTs are up 22 per cent over five years but investors in simple market beta strategies would have seen the opposite.
- Updated
- Vesna Poljak