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Personal Finance

Would dropping that $7 per day coffee actually help make you rich with ASX shares?

| Tristan Harrison

How much of a difference could cutting a daily coffee make?

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Personal Finance

$20,000 in excess savings? Here's how to try and turn that into a second income in 2026

| Tristan Harrison

Here’s how an Aussie can invest to unlock a sizeable amount of income.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Want to invest better this year? Start here

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Slow and steady - and keep it simple.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Berkshire without Buffett? It starts now.

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

For the first time in 60 years, the Oracle isn't in charge.

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Best Shares

Best and worst performing ASX 200 sectors of 2025

| Bronwyn Allen

The best performing sector delivered quadruple the gains of the broader ASX 200.

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Share Market News

Is the share market going to crash in 2026? Here's what I plan to do

| Grace Alvino

Everyone’s talking about a 2026 crash. Here’s why I’m staying calm, staying invested, and sticking to my plan.

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Investing Strategies

My top 5 ASX 200 shares I would buy with $10,000

| Grace Alvino

$10,000. Five ASX 200 shares. Here’s where I’d invest today to stack the odds in my favour for long-term returns.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Lessons from a 4-day long weekend

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Get your adrenaline shot somewhere else.

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How to invest

Can you use AI tools like ChatGPT to determine which ASX shares to buy?

| Brooke Cooper

Here's why I'd avoid using the chatbot to make investing decisions.

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Opinions

Why the ASX share market could be the best place to invest for the next decade

| Tony Yoo

Here are the themes that will rule the next few years, and three Aussie stocks that will take advantage.

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Share Market News

3 things ASX investors should watch this week

| Tony Yoo

Here are the biggest events to rock the stock market in the coming days, according to eToro's Josh Gilbert.

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Broker Notes

How this fundie plans to keep investing through a recession

| Bronwyn Allen

There are still fears the United States could go into a recession this year.

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How to invest

Warren Buffett recently sold $20 billion in stocks. Here are his warnings for investors!

| Sebastian Bowen

Buffett seems to lave lost his taste for bank shares.

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Retail Shares

Soft spending: How ASX retail shares are responding to a weak month

| Bronwyn Allen

Australians spent more on clothing in April but reduced their food and household goods expenditure.

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Resources Shares

3 reasons BHP shares made our headlines this week

| Bernd Struben

It was another eventful week on the ASX 200, with BHP shares drawing plenty of media attention.

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International Stock News

Nvidia share price adds $190 billion overnight. Where to from here?

| Sebastian Bowen

Just how much further can NVIDIA stock climb?

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Dividend Investing

Share buybacks or dividends: Which are better for ASX investors?

| Sebastian Bowen

Who doesn't love a dividend? Warren Buffett, who reckons share buybacks are better.

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Broker Notes

Inflation isn't dead. Here are 3 ASX 200 shares to 'protect your wealth'

| Tony Yoo

One expert reckons the Reserve Bank is giving up too early on the fight against inflation.

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ETFs

Better ASX ETF to buy: Vanguard VGS or VAS?

| Sebastian Bowen

VGS or VAS: Which ETF comes out on top for ASX investors?

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Dividend Investing

Is it time to stop looking at ASX 200 mining stocks for your dividend income?

| Bernd Struben

Janus Henderson reveals global dividends increased 12% in Q1 2023. But ASX 200 mining stocks didn’t join the party.

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Dividend Investing

How much would I need to invest in ASX dividend shares for $50,000 a year in passive income?

| Bernd Struben

With many top dividend-paying ASX stocks providing full franking credits, I’ll pay less tax on that passive income than I…

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Opinions

Around the world: My top buys from 7 global share markets

| Mitchell Lawler

I've searched far and wide to find what I believe to be great opportunities from all corners of the investing…

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Opinions

Is it time to be a bull or a bear on Harvey Norman shares?

| Motley Fool Staff

The iconic retailer has taken a hit post-pandemic but should investors go, Harvey Norman, go?

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How to invest

How investing in ASX shares could help me live out my modern Australian dream

| Brooke Cooper

Australians are now more likely to aspire to be financially free than to own their own home.

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Dividend Investing

Warren Buffett will earn $9 billion in dividend income this year: Be like Warren

| Sebastian Bowen

Is it possible to get a 56% dividend yield? Warren Buffett has.

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Dividend Investing

Want safe income? This ASX 200 stock has raised its dividend every year since 2000

| Sebastian Bowen

This dividend share has no equal on the ASX 200.

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Dividend Investing

Turning a $10k ASX investment into a second income worth $8k a year!

| Brooke Cooper

It could take less effort than you might think.

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Opinions

3 areas of the Aussie stock market I think could outperform this year

| Tristan Harrison

I’ve picked out three sectors that could do well over the rest of 2023.

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Superannuation

Worried you won't have enough superannuation for retirement? You're not alone

| Sebastian Bowen

Do you have a plan for retirement yet?

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Share Market News

Should ASX 200 investors be freaking out about the US debt ceiling?

| Tony Yoo

The financial world is anxious that the world's biggest economy could self-implode.

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Dividend Investing

Interest rates at 3.85%! Can I now earn more with a term deposit than ASX shares?

| Sebastian Bowen

Is your money better off in a bank than bank shares?

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Dividend Investing

Here's how I'd start earning passive income by investing $5 a day in ASX shares

| Bernd Struben

Anyone can start earning a passive income stream from ASX dividend shares for as little as $5 a day, or…

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Energy Shares

Why the Fortescue share price could be a winner following Joe Biden's extraordinary G7 statements

| Bernd Struben

In the wake of the Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday, the longer-term outlook for the Fortescue…

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Are you getting value for what you're paying?

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

There are some financial planners who seem to view their clients as meal tickets.

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Opinions

Is it time to be a bull or a bear on Core Lithium shares?

| Motley Fool Staff

After achieving first production earlier this year, is it worth buying shares in this perennial short-seller target?

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Dividend Investing

Is this the ASX 200's greatest dividend share?

| Sebastian Bowen

Find a dividend share that can top this one, I dare you.

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Opinions

No savings? Here's how I'd target a second income of $1,000 per month from scratch

| Tristan Harrison

These are the areas I’d think about to create a stream of passive income.

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Materials Shares

ASX 200 lithium shares could be winners as Biden calls critical clean energy metals the 'third pillar of the Australia-US alliance'

| Bernd Struben

ASX 200 lithium shares are well-positioned amid the US push to diversify the West’s critical metal supplies away from China.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Mike Tyson on investing

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Mike Tyson more than anyone, understands ‘no pain, no gain’.

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Share Market News

3 things ASX investors should watch this week

| Tony Yoo

If you only pay attention to three events in the coming days, these are the ones that could most influence…

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Share Market News

New ASX investor? 5 things I wish I'd known before I bought my first stock

| Sebastian Bowen

I wish I knew these five things when I started investing in ASX shares...

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Dividend Investing

Are Woodside shares the greatest dividend buy of the ASX 200?

| Bronwyn Allen

If more of our returns are going to come from dividends in this high interest rate climate, then which ASX…

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Share Market News

If I invest $10,000 in Pilbara Minerals shares, how much passive income will I receive?

| Brooke Cooper

Have the lithium stock's dividends already peaked?

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Investors 1: 'Permabear' forecasters 0

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

When the ASX stock market gets volatile and the permabears come out, choose very carefully who you listen to.

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Economy

Here's what the latest jobs data could mean for interest rates and the Aussie stock market

| Sebastian Bowen

Here's why higher unemployment can be good news for ASX shares.

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Energy Shares

'Technically feasible': This ASX energy giant is preparing to be a hydrogen highway

| Tristan Harrison

APA has taken one step closer to hydrogen success.

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Dividend Investing

How I'd invest $20,000 today for a $3,370 passive income

| Bernd Struben

If I were aiming to invest $20,000 for passive income right now, I’d aim for bigger companies paying fully franked…

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Broker Notes

4 ASX 200 shares to buy if they plunge from June tax-loss selling

| Tony Yoo

Pick up these unloved bargains next month if they fall even further, according to one expert.

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