Category: News

In late January this year, tragedy struck one of Vale’s Brazilian iron ore operations, killing around 300 and injuring many more.

In what looks to be a brow-raising move, Wesfarmers has made a bid to acquire a rare-earth producer for $1.5 billion, in a foray into the clean energy space where rare-earths will play a vital role in the rollout of electric vehicles and other clean energy products.

If you haven’t seen the popular animated film franchise, you’d be forgiven for not knowing much about Madagascar but that could be changing very soon. Graphite, as one of the most conductive materials, is set to be key to our sustainable future and recent exploration in Southern Madagascar has identified the Ampanihy Structure Zone as what could soon become a global hub of battery-suitable graphite.

Iron Condors are one of our favourite options strategies and popular amongst experienced options traders but we recently decided to look at ways of optimising results our LITT trading system.

Instinctively, you sort of just know whether a city is an agreeable place to live. Without necessarily being able to quantify why, you can, with a reasonable degree of confidence, take two different cities and identify what you like and dislike about each.

Often, it’s the simplest problems that inspire the most ingenious solutions, and the question of how large resource companies can access inhospitable terrain has certainly provided both of those elements.

Genetically modified vegetables are inevitably going to take over the world through a combination of climate change, lack of farmable land and declining soil quality but they certainly won’t solve all our problems. Especially considering there is no adequate substitute for protein, for which global demand is expected to rise 50% by 2030.

It’s a fundamental economic equation – When demand exceeds supply, prices go up. One of the biggest growth markets this generation will see is electric vehicle uptake as we witness a paradigm shift in the humble car.

It’s a fundamental economic equation – When demand exceeds supply, prices go up. One of the biggest growth markets this generation will see is electric vehicle uptake as we witness a paradigm shift in the humble car.

Warren Buffett’s famous quote about being fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful is one of the most easily recognisable mantras of any investor in the world, and indeed at any time in history.

As the “Gig” economy continues to expand, more and more professionals are working as freelancers, contract workers or consultants rather than as traditional employees.

It’s a fundamental economic equation – When demand exceeds supply, prices go up. One of the biggest growth markets this generation will see is electric vehicle uptake as we witness a paradigm shift in the humble car.