commodities

Last week we saw a significant display of herd mentality, as masses of retail investors pushed up the price of the US stock, GameStop. This week retail investors turned their attention to silver, attempting to push this commodity to unprecedented highs. ... More

Less than a fortnight into the new year and we are off to an eventful start. There's new COVID outbreaks, lockdowns, the rollout of the vaccine in the United States and UK (and promise of a vaccine rollout in Australia in February), while there ... More

What a start to December. Australia's economy officially snapped out of its first recession in 29 years, the UK became the first country to approve and roll out the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and the iron ore price reached a seven-year high. ... More

For as long as the coronavirus remains uncontained and volatility lingers in financial markets globally, there are at least two currencies that will continue to strengthen. Benjamin Ong, director of economics and investments at Rainmaker Information ... More

Takeovers where the hot topic this week with Wesfarmers proposing a $1.5 billion takeover bid for rare earth miner Lynas Corporation (LYC). The unsolicited cash offer to purchase the stock at $2.25 per share was made at a 44.7% premium on the share ... More

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has raised climate change as a key risk for the economy, but it has also talked about the benefits to natural gas exporters and lithium miners involved in the production of cleaner energy, for which demand is rapidly ... More

It's hard to remember a time when the international trading order looked more uncertain. We know trade disputes are part and parcel of international relations. But US President Donald Trump has taken it to a whole new level. Since taking office less ... More

The Australian dollar has been holding steady around US75c, hitting an eight-month high of US76c on Monday. Only last week, Saxo Bank's Steen Jakobsen suggested it was boom time for the Australian currency and was betting on the Australian dollar reaching ... More

In the past few weeks I have read recommendations from investment houses that investors should sell all their shares. I have also read forecasts that Australian house prices are surely set to collapse. Notwithstanding my thorough enjoyment of a good ... More

This week Money asks fixed income experts FIIG securities where to invest and their pick is BHP Billiton. BHP's net profit after tax is down, as is its share price. But no matter what happens in markets, the bonds it issued in October have to keep ... More