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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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Growth Shares

The best Australian stocks to buy in 2026

| James Mickleboro

Analysts are feeling bullish about these stocks for next year.

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Personal Finance

With no savings at 50, I'd follow Warren Buffett's method to build wealth

| Tristan Harrison

Warren Buffett has a number of useful lessons.

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Merry Christmas

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Merry Christmas from The Motley Fool.

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Retirement

Retirement wealth plan: Create $1 million with a single Australian stock

| Sebastian Bowen

Compounding can help you retire early.

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How to invest

Can someone invest like Warren Buffett with a spare $500?

| Sebastian Bowen

You don't have to be rich to invest like Uncle Warren.

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Recent investing News

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Australians' sweet tooth trumps pie love

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Fancy a lolly instead of a meat pie? You're not alone. Australians' snack habits are changing, with ABC news reporting…

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Why Aurora Oil & Gas shares are down 15%

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

It hasn't been the strongest month for shares of some of Australia's oil and gas exploration and production companies. Granted,…

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Would YOU trust this smile?

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

"Your money is safe with us" is a line meant to reassure but one that nearly always has the opposite…

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Is now the time to buy Cochlear?

| Mike King

With the share price down 15% since the start of the year, is this the opportunity investors have been waiting…

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BHP and Exxon opt for floating LNG plant

| Mike King

Will Woodside follow suite with its Browse LNG project?

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House prices post biggest gain in 3 years

| Mike King

Housing recovery ahead?

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Suppliers told to pay up to have products removed

| Mike King

Coles issues strict conditions for health food suppliers

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Fast fashion retailer set for big Aussie debut

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Australian fashionistas rejoice: H&M is coming. Next year, the Sweden-based "fast fashion" retailer will bring its ripped-from-the-runways apparel and ultra-low…

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Macquarie our 'fifth pillar'?

| Mike King

Investment bank's mortgage book grows by 55% in six months

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Billabong close to buyout, shares halted

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

The great Billabong (ASX: BBG) buyout saga goes on. The struggling surfwear company is believed to be close to a buyout…

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Day-trading baby plot — exposed!

| Motley Fool Staff

Yesterday, we posted this article about our new investment analyst, 12 week-old Ian Phillips, and his day-trading service. "Buy and…

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Telstra cleared for takeover of True Local

| Mike King

Shareholders might be asking what benefits it brings, in the face of intense competition from Google

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Sirtex Medical soars 7% on Macquarie upgrade

| Bruce Jackson

Shares in Sirtex Medical lead the ASX 200 gainers after a Macquarie upgrade

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Revealed: Best days to buy petrol

| Mike King

Motorists urged to avoid petrol stations on Thursdays and Fridays

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Rio's Mongolian jeopardy

| Mike King

Ongoing tension between partners threatens to delay Oyu Tolgoi project

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Small Cap managers crowing

| Mike King

98% of small cap managers beat the index in 2012, but the numbers only tell half the story

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Warren Buffett: You've done it again

| Bruce Jackson

Warren Buffett pays zero dollars for a large stake in Goldman Sachs. No wonder he's the world's richest investor

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Macquarie sells Nintex stake

| Mike King

Timely sale as investment bank's year end approaches

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Fortescue Metals on the up?

| Mike King

Broker forecasts rosy future for iron ore miner

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Welcome to phase two of the "Great Rotation"

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

With GFC fears fading, Aussie retail investors have returned to equities in a move that's been labeled the "Great Rotation"…

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Labor spits chips over Crown casino

| Mike King

Premier's department accused of keeping key aspects secret

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Buffett's latest move secures $1 billion plus profit

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) is now one of the top ten investors in investment bank Goldman…

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Woolies' latest secret weapon

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

The Aussie supermarket wars just got a little crazier, with Woolworths (ASX: WOW) announcing its latest secret weapon to lure…

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Qantas-Emirates deal cleared for take-off

| Mike King

ACCC gives conditional approval to Qantas-Emirates alliance

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RM Williams up for sale

| Mike King

Another Aussie icon about to head overseas?

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BHP: You can't say I didn't warn you

| Bruce Jackson

BHP Billiton lost 1.4% to close below $33, its seventh consecutive loss, and its tenth loss in 12 sessions.

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One old school stock the Internet just can't kill

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Whenever this company's name comes up in investing circles, you hear the same thing. Utter its name, and brace yourself…

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AFL head and shoulders above the rest

| Mike King

AFL Australia’s most popular and financially successful sport

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Two exciting ways to play the Aussie tech sector

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

You overhear the strangest things in lifts. Yesterday, for instance, two teenage girls were chatting loudly in the lift in…

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Banks looking for new growth?

| Mike King

Westpac loans Cash Converters $60 million for personal lending

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Fund managers overpaid

| Mike King

Too many intermediaries clipping the ticket on our super

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Kathmandu bets on Oz and wins

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Looks like this company's big bet on Aussie weekend warriors has paid off. Kathmandu (ASX: KMD), the retailer of sporting…

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Cyprus: If it looks too good to be true…

| Bruce Jackson

The tiny European country may have avoided bankruptcy, but is staring at a very deep and very long depression.

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Rejoice Telstra shareholders — your dividend could rise

| Bruce Jackson

Telstra (ASX: TLS) shareholders rejoice. Not only is the 28 cents per share annual dividend safe, it could rise despite…

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Toymaker turns it around with surprise profit

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

Toy company Funtastic (ASX: FUN) has posted a surprising first-half profit and announced its first dividend since 2006. The company's…

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Studying in Australia more expensive than America or Great Britain

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

For foreign students, it's now more expensive to study in Australia than it is to study in America or in…

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Investors need to take more care

| Mike King

Increasingly complex financial products raise the risks

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Why Cyprus is small potatoes

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

The recent market panic at a proposed European Union and IMF bailout of Cypriot banks may be an overshoot. To…

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"Whingeing" Aussies?

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

The Australian economy is the envy of the world. Just ask foreigners. The Australian Financial Review reported the story this…

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Could Australia follow Cyprus?

| Mike King

A warning to bank shareholders

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