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Why trading headlines will help you lose money for no real reason.

Why trading headlines will help you lose money for no real reason: Let’s face it, we all love a great headline and right now, in financial markets. Nothing could summarise things more clearly than the above. Let me explain. This week I was planning on writing an article on oil. Very topical given the price

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Will you receive a stocking full of Coal this year? Pray that you do

Will you receive a stocking full of Coal this year? Pray that you do!

Will you receive a stocking full of Coal this year? Pray that you do! Commodity prices have been declining throughout 2014. Having a direct impact on the Australian economy, and in the end. How joyous all our Christmas’s will be! Investors have felt the pinch of a declining market. With the ASX200 basically unchanged Year

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Don’t panic! The stock market hasn’t crashed yet ... But will it?

Don’t panic! The stock market hasn’t crashed yet … But will it?

Don’t panic! The stock market hasn’t crashed yet … But will it? Australia, economically, is sitting in a pretty good space. Average weekly wages are slowly increasing; Unemployment is serviceable at 6.4%; Annual GDP growth rate might be mild at 3.5% but better than most developed nations; Inflation is within target at 3.0%; and Consumer

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