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Investing Strategies

How I'd invest $50,000 across ASX shares today

| Grace Alvino

If I had $50,000 to invest today, I wouldn’t overcomplicate it. I’d focus on quality and patience.

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Personal Finance

Don't want to rely on your wage? Build a second income with these ASX shares

| Tristan Harrison

Aussies can improve financial security by using ASX shares to generate passive income.

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Investing Strategies

Here are my top 10 ASX stocks for 2026

| Grace Alvino

For 2026, I’m focused on ASX stocks with strong fundamentals, proven management, and the ability to compound through volatility.

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ETFs

This is how I would build a sound ETF portfolio from scratch

| Marc Van Dinther

Aim for broad market exposure, keep it simple and minimize costs.

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Opinions

10 ASX shares I'd buy with $10,000 in 2026 to beat the market

| Tristan Harrison

These stocks have strong return potential over the long term.

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Defensive Shares

5 reasons to hold Telstra shares until 2030

| Grace Alvino

Telstra isn’t exciting, but for income and resilience, that may be exactly the point.

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Share Market News

With inflation edging lower, here's the latest 2026 interest rate forecast from CBA

| Bernd Struben

Buying ASX shares and pining for interest rate relief? Here’s CBA’s latest 2026 forecast.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Space, time and… clarity

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Reflections on reflecting.

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Recent sharemarket News

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Treasury Wine sees good times ahead

| Mike King

But one of their products may be a better investment

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Supermarkets drive sales at Woolworths

| Mike King

$30 billion in total group revenues in just six months is nothing to be sneezed at

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Australia's AAA rating safe – for now

| Mike King

Despite strong fundamentals, country has some weaknesses and potential threats

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Gold: It's over

| Bruce Jackson

The Dow (INDEX: ^DJI) and S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) are back on the up, as are dividend stocks,…

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Fall in construction – another trigger for rate cut?

| Mike King

Construction work falls likely triggered by falling commodity prices

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United's ugly result

| Mike King

Engineering and property services firm sees net profit fall 53%

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Maverick Drilling: from safe producer to speculative explorer

| Bruce Jackson

Maverick Drilling & Exploration (ASX: MAD) has transformed itself from emerging producer to speculative explorer.

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Market crash — how I've missed you

| Bruce Jackson

The Dow (INDEX: ^DJI) crashed Monday, the S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) following its lead. If fast growing, attractively…

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Currency wars: Rate cut next week?

| Mike King

RBA hints that rates may be cut to force stubborn Australian dollar down

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Air wars: Virgin has wings clipped

| Mike King

Earnings hit by overcapacity and increased competition

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Truck sales drive Seven Group's profit

| Mike King

Sales of Caterpillar mining equipment turbo-charge Seven's half year profit

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Crown losing its shine

| Mike King

Falling profits, flat revenues and a large capital expenditure program mean Crown is no bargain

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Interest rates on hold

| Mike King

And could be for some time, according to RBA Governor Glenn Stevens

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Billabong's $500 million dumper

| Mike King

Surfwear maker takes writedowns of $567 million

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$35 billion wiped off market

| Mike King

ASX 200 drops 2.3%, leaving few blue-chip stocks unscathed

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Small lenders cut mortgage rates

| Mike King

And with no prompting from the Reserve Bank

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ASX earnings down

| Mike King

Australia's main stock exchange sees revenues and profits down as market activity falls to cyclical lows

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Weak ad market hampers Fairfax

| Mike King

Asset sales boost net profit

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Mixed results for Flying Kangaroo

| Mike King

International division reduces losses, but domestic earnings fall

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Fortescue profit drops 40%

| Mike King

Increased production levels no match for falling iron ore price

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Seven's slippery slope

| Mike King

With print media sales sliding and TV revenues facing low single digit growth, Seven will need to run hard just…

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Twiggy joins Buffett

| Mike King

Billionaires pledge to give away most of their fortunes

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Woodside profit doubles

| Mike King

Pluto LNG fuels Woodside's profit increase

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More change at the top: BHP chief quits

| Mike King

BHP CEO quits just over a month after Rio Tinto's boss walked

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ASX mining services sector hammered

| Mike King

Investors give mining services sector the cold shoulder

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BrisConnections traffic smash

| Mike King

Traffic volumes of less than half that expected, bring toll road operator to its knees

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BMW recalls 500,000 cars

| Mike King

Faulty battery connection could cause loss of electrical power

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Sonic shock

| Mike King

Unexpected fee cuts and weak global economic growth hit Sonic

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Arrium trying to change its spots

| Mike King

Writedowns, challenging conditions for its steel business and low iron ore prices take toll on Arrium

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Coke bottler hits targets in challenging year

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

In its full year results report released this morning, fizzy beverage bottler and distributor Coca-Cola Amatil (ASX: CCL) reported overall sales…

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3 ASX stocks that smashed the market today

| Mike King

ASX rises 0.6%, but these three added more than 5%

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Amcor packs rise in profits

| Mike King

But 2013 financial year earnings expected to be inline with previous year

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Make $4,900 in less than 5 minutes

| Mike King

The average balance of lost super accounts is $4,940 - finding yours can take less than 5 minutes

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Coke boss slams supermarkets

| Mike King

CEO Terry Davis calls for a national debate over aggressive supermarket practices

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One third of Aussies have no savings

| Mike King

And one third worried about being able to meet monthly expenses

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Media boss draws shareholder Eire

| Mike King

APN News and Media in trading halt

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The 'Aussie' most overvalued

| Mike King

Australian dollar estimated to be 60% overvalued

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The rise and rise of digital newspapers

| Mike King

Digital sales for Australia's major mastheads rose 13.4% in the last quarter

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Asian focus paying dividends for ANZ

| Mike King

Global Markets division grows income by 26%

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Mining services not out of the woods

| Mike King

Spending on exploration is falling, and forecast to fall further - which has implications for companies servicing the resources industry

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