Things are looking brighter for the Australian consumer, which means we might all be spending more come December. JB Hi-Fi will be the best placed stock to benefit.

When things start looking good, the pessimist in us gets jumpy. While the market has been particularly strong, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re in for a correction. In fact, the reverse might be true.

The working week began with a car trip up the Hume Highway, leaving the Melbourne marriage of my son, which went off like a dream, behind. However there was a fatherly price to pay — Dad volunteered to drive ..

Following on from Barrie Dunstan’s analysis earlier on Monday, our intrepid analyst Charlie, is even more convinced of the growth profile of Telstra, after a meeting with management.

Don’t believe everything you read in the financial papers. You need a healthy dose of scepticism to interpret some of the opinions that are being bandied about at the moment.

It’s Caulfield Cup day in Melbourne but the Switzer clan won’t be focusing on Gerry Harvey’s Royal Descent in the Cup or his mate John Singleton’s Dear Demi in the big race. We’ll be fully engaged wit..

Just because a stock is unloved doesn’t mean it isn’t a good buy. In fact the trick to finding outperformance is finding these companies before anybody else does. Charlie explains why four laggards, and esp..

In these abnormal times of low term deposit rates, there shouldn’t be any further RBA cash rate cuts, so there’s only one way to go, and that’s up!

Looking at this week on the stock market, all I can say is “what just happened?” I know it was a 2008 movie starring Robert De Niro but what we saw unfold in Washington, and then later on Wall Street, was t..

The stars are aligning for Qantas, with bottom up fleet efficiency initiatives combining with an improving domestic economy. Charlie Aitken says Qantas is a “strong buy” under $1.50 – his target is $3.00.

With the US government in shutdown mode and concerns about a debt default looming, a market analyst has predicted a 13% pullback in stocks.