Articles on Stockmarket
Displaying all articles
Both the Commonwealth Bank, and the ASX as a whole, are considered expensive. But does this mean they’re headed for a fall?
In a market where milliseconds matter, even a minor error can have major consequences. But this latest mistake shows the ASX faces a credibility crisis.
Retiring in a volatile market isn’t easy, but panic isn’t a plan. Here are some strategies to consider.
Diversity in leadership isn’t just about ticking boxes. New research on lisetd New Zealand companies finds it’s also about making businesses stronger.
While many market observers blame growing concerns about inflation for the stock market crash, the real culprit may be fears that the economy is about to slow.
Money is pouring into exchange traded funds, but making a bitcoin one isn’t necessarily a good idea.
Dark pools are growing in popularity and now account for more than 15% of total trading in some stock markets. But despite such trading being blamed by some commentators for everything from market instability…
On the morning of 22 January 2013 a story started to develop on Twitter about the imminent and unexpected resignation of Jens Weidmann, the CEO of Deutsche Bundesbank. The first documented tweet came at…
Australian investors and superannuation funds have invested hundreds of billions of their life savings with active fund managers. These funds have very high fees compared with index funds to cover not…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is moving to “real-time” monitoring of share trading as another weapon in the ongoing fight against insider trading. But will the use of this form of…
Higher advertising spending does not protect share prices from bad news, according to new research by the University of Georgia…
In a tweet that could represent US$110 million for every one of its 135 characters, Twitter last week announced that it would be following fellow social network providers Facebook and LinkedIn in becoming…
On April 23, the US stock market suddenly lost 1.5% of its value after news of an attack on the White House quickly spread from the (hacked) Twitter account of the Associated Press news agency. Within…
A study by University of Exeter researchers found that female directors are as good at valuing companies as their male counterparts…
The speed increase of stock trading from microseconds to nanoseconds leads to an increase in order cancellations and is otherwise…
The last Space Shuttle recently returned to Earth. That reminded me that 45 years ago I was undertaking a PhD in physics at Australian National University, investigating the re-entry of the space shuttle…












