Category: News

The May edition of The Monitor runs through seven events indicating an increasingly fragile market.

At the end of last year, RBA Governor Philip Lowe, deemed cash and card transactions as a “niche payment” highlighting that they are becoming less prominent in our day to day activities.

Being on the right side of disruption is going to be a key driver of generating future investment performance. Many consumer staple companies that have been at the core of quality portfolios are now being disrupted and beer clearly falls into the same category.

Meat & Livestock Australia, in collaboration with the not-for-profit advisory company Agri Benchmark, released an article in January of this year providing a thorough analysis on the ebbs and flows of the sheepmeat market over the most recent decade in particular, as well as providing a prediction for the industry’s trajectory going into the next decade. 

The recent Liberal win at the Federal election has unleashed a quarry of concern from the nation, with climate change being a major topic.

The health and wellness industry is estimated to be in excess of 4 trillion dollar industry that will continue to drive the global economy for the next 30 years or more. Wellness has become mainstream and it is greatly influencing consumers buying and decision-making process.

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?

At the inaugural Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019 in Washington DC, US Senator Lisa Murkowski reiterated what the entire world is slowly but surely catching wind on; the unprecedented expansion of the mineral resource trade.

“We are confident that the MotoGP will be an amazing opportunity to lift up tourism in Lombok and Sumbawa,” Awanadhi Aswinabawa, chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Association’s (GIPI) NTB said. Lombok and Sumbawa constitute two of NTB’s largest islands. Another…

For those familiar with the work of Neil Postman, he is perhaps most familiar with those in the Informatics field, and for an infamous speech in 1990 at an IBM sponsored speech to the German Informatics society, whereby he discussed his ‘Information-Action Ratio’.

American Philosopher John Francis Bongiovi Jr, (otherwise known as Bon Jovi) once famously and sagely remarked, (admittedly taking his lead from Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr), that ‘it was all the same, only the names have changed.’

Lombok is like Bali 30 years ago. That statement was repeated to me several times while visiting the Indonesian paradise island smaller than the size of metropolitan Perth. The comparison is something that the Indonesian Government and airline Air Asia…