COMMENT
Opinion
The key to making money in the markets: buy, hold ... and wait
Decades of covering the markets shows that for investors, buy and hold is the default. This is Mal Maiden's last column for Fairfax Media.
- by Malcolm Maiden
Latest
Wall Street may have finally decided that a US rate rise is good news
Something unusual and encouraging happened on Wednesday. After deciding that the US Federal Reserve would raise its benchmark short term interest rate next month, Wall Street investors bought shares with enthusiasm, handing the US sharemarket its best gain in two months.
- by Malcolm Maiden
The Internet of Things: it's arrived and it's eyeing your job
It has the potential to unleash economic disruption that makes what the internet has delivered so far look like child's play.
- by Malcolm Maiden
The banks hate Labor's royal commission idea because it might work
The banks are leery about Labor's plan for a royal commission into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry, but if the commission gets the right brief, it could work.
- by Malcolm Maiden
RBA minutes show another rate cut is possible – but hey, you knew that
Another day, another Aussie-dollar move of minimal meaning. The currency rallied more than half a cent on Tuesday after the minutes of the Reserve Bank's rate-cutting meeting on May 3 came out.
- by Malcolm Maiden
Signs of a problem for Malcolm Turnbull in post-budget sentiment
My prediction a week ago that Scott Morrison's budget was unlikely to be a election liability is not looking good.
- by Malcolm Maiden
Behind BHP's plan to boost its value by 70 per cent
BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie says he has a plan to boost the company's value by 70 per cent.
- by Malcolm Maiden
Election hyperbole: it's inevitable, but there are worse places than here to cope with it
As we field election campaign warnings from the Coalition and Labor that the other side will ruin us, let's remember one thing...
- by Malcolm Maiden
A small win for BHP on Samarco, but settlement is a very long road
There's a long way to go before the Australian group and its joint venture partner at Samarco, Brazil's Vale group, put the disaster behind them and know how much it finally costs
- by Malcolm Maiden
COMMENT
Opinion
As Reserve Bank boss, Philip Lowe will hold the course Glenn Stevens set
From the moment he became deputy governor of the RBA in 2012, Philip Lowe was always the obvious choice.
- by Malcolm Maiden
Budget 2016: Labor's budget attack dulled by Scott Morrison's clever super changes
Scott Morrison didn't balance the budget, but he outlined a path to it that is marketable.
- by Malcolm Maiden
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