Category: News

Could the Fourth Industrial Revolution actually be a new Iron Age? We’re living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and steelmaking is coming along for the ride.

When everything started falling down around the ears of the Eurozone countries, one pillar stood tall and helped the entire Union withstand a global financial meltdown of unprecedented proportions. But just over ten years on from this momentous event, there are cracks beginning to appear in the base of the once sturdy German pillar.

There’s been a backlash against the 7.6 trillion dollar tourism industry.

If a loan manager offered you a mortgage at -0.75% interest, would you wonder if you heard correctly? If you were in a bank in Denmark, you probably did.

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A good Options trading system involves strategies that will work in bullish markets as well as bearish and sideways markets. Navigating a sideways market can be difficult for most traders, as there is a level of uncertainty as to which direction it could move in next, and whether they stand to make or lose money in the process. While trading in a sideways market still has its risks, there are strategies that can help to minimise potential losses and use the market to your advantage.

Whilst associating ‘tech’ to your company name may be starting to attract somewhat negative connotations in the US – in Australia, in the right conditions, it could mean that you’re set to boom.

Earlier this month, Monash Council made the exciting announcement that it will be partnering with Monash University and Traffic Technologies to turn Oakleigh into one of Melbourne’s first smart city precincts. The i-Sense Oakleigh project will pilot a range of smart technologies which will allow the council to better manage its public assets and provide higher responsive services to its residents. 

For many investors, trading in a bull market can be seen as an ideal position, as there is the opportunity to buy stocks early and then sell them at a profit when they peak. However, trading in a bull market is not always as straightforward as it may sound and there is no one-size-fits-all strategy.

It’s no surprise that Australians are one of the most travelled people in the world. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released a report which showed a record annual 11.2 million Aussie trips overseas within 2018-19, representing a 5.4 million increase from 10 years ago. New Zealand remains the top destination for Aussie travellers with 1.4 million short term trips, while Indonesia is a close second at 1.3 million trips. Holiday was the main reason for 57% of all short-term trips overseas while visiting friends and relatives was next at 26%. Travelling has become part of the Australian culture and has been steadily increasing over the years, but where do Australians want to go and what are they looking for?

There are certain companies whose mere existence has so much of an effect on the world itself, that their name becomes a substitute for common parlance. Wherein once we would have looked something up, or ‘searched on Encarta 95’, we simply ‘Google It’. When looking for a quick method of note-taking, one may reach for a ‘Post It’ rather than anything less specific. And now, especially in the last decade, the preferred method of transport for many people has simply been to ‘Uber’’.

A recent announcement around raising the Share Purchase Plans’ (SPP) cap by ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commision) has certainly caught attention. ASIC Corporations’ (Share and Interest Purchase Plans) Instrument 2019/547 will see the maximum investment from a retail shareholder double from $15,000 to $30,000 – allowing them to increase their participation in SPP’s as well as the potential for companies to increase the capital raised from retail investors, and thus reduce the need to look outside their shareholders.