Posts about stock market (7)

This is the abridged version of last week's podcast, delving into the landscape of 3rd quarter earnings:

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice, Samuel Kerr, delve into the complex landscape of 3rd quarter earnings. The overall trend shows a downgrade in earnings forecasts, signalling a cautious approach by many companies. However, amidst ...

There has been a surge in the oil price following another outbreak of fighting in the Middle East. The question is, what does the rising oil price do to inflation? In the very short term, the answer is obvious: inflation will be higher. But most central banks exclude oil from the inflation series ...

There has been a lot of inflation in food at the supermarket, but very little for the farmers. Most agricultural prices have actually been decreasing over the last 18 months. Is this greedflation at play? In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen and Senior ...

Almost all of the profit growth and share price appreciation in 2023 has come from a small group of US tech stocks. In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Adviser Samuel Kerr delve into each of the 'magnificent seven' stocks. View the ...

There has been a wave of data breaches over the last few years. Medibank, Optus, Latitude and even tech darling Canva have been exposed. For the stocks involved, the effects can be dramatic. With the release of OpenAI and a number of other Artificial Intelligence tools, it seems the scammers are ...

If you are worried about a downturn in markets, one place to look for safety is in sectors that have already fallen. In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Adviser Samuel Kerr look through last year’s darlings who have seen shipping rates ...

Join us for a thoughtful conversation on retirement planning that could transform your quality of life. In this episode, Nucleus Wealth Chief Operating Officer Shelley George sits down with guest Natallia Smith, the Director and Principal Financial Adviser at Tru Wealth Advice, to discuss expert ...

In this investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Adviser Samuel Kerr welcome Martin North back to the podcast and delve into the latest data from his household stress survey. The key things we want to find out: The overall household variation. ...

In this episode, Nucleus Wealth Chief Operating Officer, Shelley George, and Senior Financial Adviser, Samuel Kerr, dissect the changes to superannuation in FY24 and how you can leverage them to enhance your personal financial landscape. From potential advantages to important considerations that ...

In this episode, we confront the prevailing fixation on GDP as a sole indicator of prosperity. The recent government announcement of a supplementary statistic to incorporate additional measurements of wellbeing gave hope for a more comprehensive approach, but upon closer examination, it falls short ...

In his book, The Ulysses Contract, Michael Kemp explores some of the innate behaviors, biases and challenges humans face as investors. And what you can do about them. He sits down to explore these and other things with Nucleus Wealth Chief Operating Officer, Shelley George, in this episode of ...

It has been a volatile 6 months in macroeconomic outlooks. A year ago, it looked as if Australia was lagging behind the US economically; a few months ago that narrative reversed. And then it flip-flopped several more times. In this week's podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer Damien ...

Extraordinary scenes in Russia this week as a coup put a significant dent into Putin's aura of political invincibility. We examine the aftershocks for macroeconomics, political stability and investments. In particular, we look at the investment landscape for defense contractors, which ones benefit, ...

For the last few months we have been talking about how the soft data (i.e. surveys and forward looking) has been looking recessionary but the hard data has been surprisingly firm. That has started to change, and in the hard data we are seeing sweeping signs of a slowdown. In this week's podcast ...