Category: Market News
Spotlight: It’s a full house at Airbnb
Forget all the talk about the ‘new normal’ because Airbnb and Uber are showing us that it’s just like things used to be. Holiday….
Spotlight: Macca’s will now pay you to stay
Macca’s is taking drastic measures to find workers as labour shortages continue around the country. Meanwhile Apple and Amazon defy an advertising downturn and….
Spotlight: Elon bins Bitcoin, lights up lithium instead
When Elon Musk announced Tesla was adding US$1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin to its books, it helped ignite a major crypto rally. Eighteen months….
Spotlight: Flight Centre is now the most-shorted stock on the ASX
The story behind Flight Centre is well known. It starts with a double-decker bus in Europe, evolves into Top Deck, and ends up as….
The 5 questions investors are asking this Q2 earnings season
Q2 earnings season officially kicks off in the U.S. this week with a slew of publicly-listed companies lining up to open their books to….
Spotlight: Amazon is knocking on your door
The sheer size of Amazon means that when it decides to take a bit of a new market, there’s a genuine concern that incumbents….
Spotlight: Disney just bumped Netflix out of the F1
Formula One has gone from being a niche sport to one of the hottest properties in streaming in the space of just three years.….
Spotlight: Why Kellogg’s is splitting into three
Kellogg’s has joined the wave of big companies of spinning off separate businesses (think Johnson & Johnson, GE and even Ford). As markets and….
Spotlight: Why are markets so scared of interest rates?
News of interest rate hikes, inflation and the prospect of stagflation dominated markets this week. Here’s why investors look so worried. 1. Big rate….
Spotlight: Why Apple is becoming a bank
What can’t Apple do? Whether it’s in hardware, software or streaming, the big tech company seems to have the Midas touch. But in recent….