Category: News

Tourism is a $7.6 trillion industry and it’s growing every year. For tourism destinations to be sustainable for locals and desirable for visitors in the long-term, it’s essential that property development projects take a holistic approach that involves the local community.

Diversification is the key to building a robust portfolio. Gold and stocks are not closely correlated investments, so a healthy portfolio could have a mix of both.

Traders like to use price action to predict what may happen in the short term. With hundreds of different indicators to choose from, and many different approaches to trading, how do you get an edge?

This week we were joined in office by Prescient Therapeutics (ASX: PTX) CEO and Managing Director Steven Yatomi-Clarke for an investor and industry update in the personalised medicine and cancer therapy space. 

Humankind has been trying to find a cure for cancer for thousands of years. Today, we may have reached a point where we know enough to develop an effective cancer cure and the question remains, where will science take us next?

Is it all just technology hype? We are hearing a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the reality is that it’s finally begun to deliver on the promises, some made more than 60 years ago.

Gold is one of the oldest currencies in the world. First used in 643BC in modern-day Turkey,  it’s since been prized by almost every culture on Earth. 

Mining still provides much of the raw materials that make our every-day objects, and steel is arguably one of the most essential to our every-day needs, making up core elements in everything from buildings to electric devices.

The US China trade war has been going on for a year and a half, but a Trump tweet sparked hope last month announcing that the United States and China were about to sign an ‘historic’ trade agreement. The phase-one deal was supposed to represent 60% of an overall long-term agreement which would pause tariff escalations as well as address issues such as intellectual property and financial services. 

After Vice magazine exposed an extensive Airbnb scam, the platform has announced it will now take extra steps to make sure all seven million of its listings are verified. The scam involved fake hosts who would trick Airbnb users out of thousands of dollars across 94 properties in eight different US cities. The Vice reporter Allie Conti who exposed the scam, went on to say that Airbnb’s rules were poorly written and that they made it easy for scammers to exploit users.  

Security has existed for as long as we’ve had something to protect; whether it’s herds of cattle, private letters, personal assets, property or digital data. 

Last Thursday, retail giant Amazon partnered with Zip Co. to finally open its doors to ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) technology. Zip Co., the main rival of Afterpay, now allows Amazon’s Australian customers to pay for goods post-purchase without a credit card. The deal has come at an opportune time in the lead-up to the Christmas period, as well as the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday online shopping season.