stock market

Stock market: Should I buy stocks now - or hold off?

26 Jul 2022

Markets are going haywire, with volatility that hasn’t been seen since COVID hit. With some stock prices plummeting, is now a good time to buy?

Timing the share market is hard - just ask your super fund

13 Aug 2020

Our super funds could have cleaned up when the market crashed 40% and then rebounded by about as much. That they didn't says a lot about how hard it is to time trades.

The S&P 500 nears its all-time high. Here's why stock markets are defying economic reality

12 Aug 2020

Normally stock markets tell us a lot about the economy. In 2020 that's no longer the case.

Blue-chip, volatile, high-risk: retail investors are buying while professionals are selling

29 Jul 2020

While institutional investors are selling stocks, retail investors are buying. They may not understand the risks.

Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrison

21 May 2019

Monday's share market surge was a pure as any a test of what the market thought of the election results.

Stock markets take a bumpy ride through Brexit and other uncertainties

22 Nov 2018

Turbulence on the stock market will demand investor attention until Christmas, says UNSW Business School Professor Elvira Sojli, who specialises in understanding periods of market uncertainty.

Better than the alternative. What the market thought of ScoMo

30 Aug 2018

The share market jumped after Scott Morrison won the leadership, and for once the jump seems to mean something.

It’s hard to hate a unicorn, until it gores you

23 Feb 2016

The unicorn bubble could be about to pop, writes Usman W. Chohan.

Economic theories that have changed us: efficient markets and behavioural finance

25 Jun 2015

While markets should factor in all information, movements in stock prices can still be driven by irrational behaviour, writes Richard Holden.