Investing
Trump, Bitcoin and China: The booms and busts awaiting the ASX in 2025
Australia’s market analysts have forecast steady growth for the domestic sharemarket in 2025, despite looming uncertainties hanging over the next 12 months.
- by Daniel Lo Surdo
Latest
Crypto cool, ‘El Loco’ and a 2900 per cent gain in 20 seconds
The booming crypto-investment complex left traditional finance in the dust, Argentina’s libertarian president proved his naysayers wrong, and Tesla’s share rally. Here are the 11 wild trades of 2024.
- by Dave Liedtka, Emily Graffeo, Vildana Hajric, Natalia Kniazhevich, Kevin Simauchi, Davison Santana, Vinícius Andrade, Ye Xie, Yiqin Shen, Carmen Arroyo, Reshmi Basu, Iris Ouyang, Tasos Vossos and Matthew Burgess
US tech stock rally brings Christmas Eve cheer to ASX
The Australian sharemarket closed high on Christmas Eve making the most of the rally from some of the world’s largest technology companies.
- by Hannah Kennelly
Rolled gold burritos, AI mania and ‘mother of all bubbles’ were big business in 2024
It proved to be a volatile year for the big end of town, but it’s investors who face a day of reckoning.
- by Colin Kruger
ASX tumbles again, scotching hopes of Santa rally
The Australian sharemarket had another poor day on Friday, and the bourse has declined 2.8 per cent over the week.
- by Daniel Lo Surdo
The $470 billion man: How Will keeps beating Wall Street
In 1990, a Harvard graduate landed what would become, quite literally, the job of a lifetime.
- by Loukia Gyftopoulou
Opinion
Opinion
Why all I want for Christmas is a bear market
I don’t want to be a Grinch, but at Christmas, you tell the truth: everyone is bullish, and I can’t help but feel concerned.
- by William Bennett
Starting fresh: setting yourself up for money success in 2025
The end of one year and the start of another is a good time to take stock of your financial wellbeing. But don’t be too hard on yourself.
- by Dominic Powell
The tax bill that could sink a blockbuster takeover of Australian wealth powerhouse
A hefty $500 million tax bill has threatened to scupper a multibillion-dollar deal between 138-year-old Perpetual and a private equity firm.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Nicola and Andrew Forrest to bankroll superstar team at all-female fund
The billionaire philanthropist has committed $100 million in funding from her and her ex-husband Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation to Future Generation Women.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Opinion
Superannuation
The $160 billion problem with Australian SMSFs - and how to fix it
Self-managed superannuation funds in Australia are exhibiting a concerning trend in over-allocating to vulnerable assets such as shares and property.
- by Tim Keith
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