Keen investors will at some point in their life visit the ASX stock forum HotCopper which has long been the largest forum for discussion of ASX-listed companies, and subsequently received marketing emails for penny stocks they sell advertising for. Having established the forum in 1994, the site has built up the largest database of Australian
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One neat investment theory of the pandemic era is that the deathcare industry provides the perfect hedge against the human cost of the pestilence and the ensuing economic chaos. But as with having blind faith in gold as a safe harbour, the notion of funeral parlours as a defensive certainty should be dead buried and
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Paypal has today announced the launch of the ‘Pay in 4’ product, a short-term interest free buy-now-pay-later service for merchants in the US. Initially it will cover purchases of between $30 and $600 USD, with re-payments made over a six week period. Paypal is planning to launch their product early in Q4 2020. With more
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Flush with newly-raised cash, the listed data centre (DC) operators are on an expansionary push as the pandemic elevates corporate and government requirements for more data storage and better connectivity. Investor interest has long centred on sector big daddy NextDC (NXT), which is trading near record high levels despite (or because of) a monster $672
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The Australian company reporting season for August is coming to a close and it has been one of the most important for years. We are getting the first real look at the impact of COVID-19 on company profitability and for some companies, the impact has been significant. For others however, the impact was non-existent or
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