Can You Profit From Beer Drinking on Australia Day?

by Shae Smith on 28 January 2012

Whether it’s cultural reflection, or a result of the booze wars between the two biggest supermarket chains, the liquor market in Australia is worth about $16.4 billion to the Aussie economy.

And the industry expands 3% each year.

That got us thinking… with that kind of growth rate, are there any companies worth investing in?

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Unloved US Tech Giant Could Be A Great Buy

by MoneyMorning on 27 January 2012

Turn your computer on and there’s one word I can almost guarantee you’ll see: Microsoft.

It’s the world’s top software company. For positively ages, the company’s Windows operating system has been the industry standard for the PC business.

So you’d think that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) shares would have been a rip-roaring success in recent years. Yet the complete opposite is true. [click to continue…]

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Six years.

That’s how long it will have been from the financial meltdown in 2008 until the U.S. Federal Reserve plans to start raising interest rates.

That’s what they say this month.

Of course, it was only a few months ago the Fed said it would start raising rates in 2013. Now it won’t likely happen until 2014… at the earliest. [click to continue…]

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In the Market Or Under the Mattress?

January 26, 2012

The next 1,000 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in either direction are going to be determined by what happens in two cities thousands of miles from our own shores… Athens and Berlin. What’s more, the risks associated with Europe’s redemption, or its failure, are more concentrated now than they were before the crisis [...]

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Happy Australia Day

January 26, 2012

[Ed Note: While we're spending a few days at the beach and relaxing with the family (maybe you're doing the same), we thought it was a good time to send you something from a recent Australian Small-Cap Investigator weekly update. It first appeared in that newsletter on 5 January, 2012. We hope you enjoy this [...]

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