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The Short Squeeze
The Short Squeeze: February results paint rosy picture
This week’s episode takes the pulse of the local retail sector as earnings season draws to a close, ponders the ASX’s price query mechanism and wraps up the latest economic numbers.
- by Lucy Battersby and Dominic Powell
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Opinion
Bonds
We may have just seen the end of a 40-year bull market for bonds
For investors, and central bankers, there’s an important question posed by the turbulence in financial markets last week - was that a mini “tantrum” or a preview of a more structural and historic change?
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Markets Live
As it happened: ASX gains 1.7% in recovery rally
The S&P/ASX 200 gained 116 points on Monday, the best performance in months, as bond markets steadied and it recovered from a large fall on Friday.
- by Lucy Battersby
‘Never bet against America’: Warren Buffett’s bullish letter to shareholders
Billionaire Warren Buffett encouraged investors to maintain their faith in America’s economy but his silence on some issues attracted criticism.
- by Josh Funk
ASX set for gains; uncertainty hovers over Wall Street
A shakeup in stocks accelerated by the past week’s surge in Treasury yields has investors weighing how far a recent leadership rotation in the US equity market can run, and its implications for the broader S&P 500 index.
- by Lewis Krauskopf
Rising bond yields prompt $50b ASX bloodbath
All local sectors were hammered as the benchmark ASX 200 index plunged 2.4 per cent to close at a near four-week low of 6673.3.
- by Alex Druce
‘Your rockets are at risk’: Reddit traders campaign to save sharemarket disclosure rules
A trader called The Lord of Ruin on a popular Reddit forum is behind a growing rebellion against Josh Frydenberg’s plans to water down company disclosure laws.
- by Sarah Danckert
Breaking his silence: Warren Buffett’s upcoming letter has investors on edge
While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual letter.
- by Katherine Chiglinsky
As it happened: Tech stocks bloodied in $50b ASX selloff
The ASX 200 plunged 2.4% in its worst session in six months, shedding $50 billion in the process. The fall came as rising bond yields prompted a Wall Street selloff.
- by Alex Druce
‘Dirty way to make money’: Investing guru and Robinhood locked in war of words
Robinhood has labelled Charlie Munger’s attack on brokerages that attract inexperienced investors as “disappointing and elitist”.
- by Katherine Chiglinsky and Hannah Levitt
Opinion
Currencies
The US needs to rethink what it is doing with its dollar
For years, the US maintained the official policy that a strong dollar was good for the US and for the world.. Now it needs to rethink its currency strategy.
- by Noah Smith