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Mike King

Mike King is a Fool.com.au Investment Analyst and Writer. He caught the investing bug more than a decade ago, at a time when the U.S. had invaded Iraq and fear reigned in the markets. His initial success as the markets took off encouraged his passion and thirst for knowledge. With 13 years behind him at one of Australia's largest domestic banks, Mike's passion for stocks led him to join a boutique funds management firm, where he stayed for four years. A seven-year stint in equity research at one of the largest investment banks in the world followed that, giving Mike a thirst to pursue his passion further. Mike holds a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Planning. His passion is to help retail investors invest better, and that passion was one of his primary reasons for joining The Motley Fool Australia in late 2011. Mike has written thousands of articles since joining, including for Fairfax Media, Yahoo!7, Ninemsn and has also appeared on ABC's The Business. You can see all of Mikes' holdings here

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The rise and rise of digital newspapers

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

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Asian focus paying dividends for ANZ

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Global Markets division grows income by 26%

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Mining services not out of the woods

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

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Supermarket wars: Dairy farmers a dying breed

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The number of dairy farmers has almost halved in the last decade

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DJs flips CDs and DVDs

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Department store retailer ditches DVDs, games and music

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Retail drives Wesfarmers profit

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Industrial conglomerate on track for $60 billion plus in full year revenues

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Downer on the up

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Share price rockets as engineering company beats analysts forecasts

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Vege-mitey rip-off

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Australian icon, Vegemite cheaper in the UK, despite being made here

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Which bank posts $3.8bn profit

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Shares hit record high above $67

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WorleyParsons worry

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Engineering group reports flat profit despite 14% jump in adjusted revenues

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CSL's healthy result

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CSL maintains forecast for 24% earnings growth

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Boral reports first half loss

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Building materials company doing it tough

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3 of the best ASX stocks today

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ASX ends flat, despite briefly passing through the 5,000 mark. These three rose more than 8%

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Mining tax widely panned

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Even Kevin Rudd gets in on the act

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50% of mines to close by 2040

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Half of Australia's mines will be exhausted within 7-18 years, with 20 expected to close within the next five years

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RBA sells Securency interest

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Stake in controversial money printing firm to be sold

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Aldi heads west

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Discount supermarket chain reported to be looking at expansion in South Australia and Western Australia

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3 ASX stocks that rose more than 7% today

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ASX falls 0.2% in lacklustre trade, but these three went bananas, rising by more than 7%

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Tech giants summonsed

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Apple, Adobe and Microsoft ordered to explain high Australian prices for their products

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Retail investors drop smaller non-dividend paying stocks

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Focus shifting to larger companies that pay consistent, fully franked dividends

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Wages gush higher for Aussie workers

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Australian oil and gas workers highest paid in the world

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3 ASX stocks that smashed the market today

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ASX rises 0.7%, but these three added more than 6%

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Mining boom still has legs

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China's exports and imports surge

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Insurers face $0.7 billion in claims

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Figure could go higher as more cyclones, floods and bushfires remain a strong possibility

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Westpac cuts mortgage rate below 5%

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Two-year fixed rate home loan drops to 4.99%

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Health insurance premiums to rise

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Government expected to announce 5-6% increase

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Dividends paid in gold?

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Gold miner comes up with radical plan

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Australand: What property downturn?

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A tale of two developers

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Tablets rapidly gaining on PC sales

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Could we see the death of PCs?

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Virgin-Tiger reservations

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ACCC concerned that Virgin's 60% acquisition of Tiger will return Australia to a duopoly

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Banks to slash deposit rates?

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Pressure building on banks to cut deposit rates

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Primary Health Care: 50% profit rise

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But looks can be deceiving

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Retailers' unhappy Christmas

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ABS data shows retail sales fell 0.2% in December

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Origin signs up Lockyer

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League legend to spruik the benefits of coal seam gas

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PC maker Dell goes private

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Third largest PC maker to delist to revamp its business

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3 ASX stocks that were hammered today

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ASX drops 0.5%, but these three fared worse, dropping by 5.9% or more.

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Aussie super fourth largest in the world

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Superannuation assets reach more than $1.5 trillion

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Builders struggle as house prices rise

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Developers resorting to discounts, gift cards and other incentives to entice buyers, despite rising house prices

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Investors drown out Cochlear

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Market takes dislike to $77.7m half year profit announcement

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British Airways cuts Qantas ties

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Qantas deal with Emirates blamed

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