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Tony Yoo

Tony Yoo is a senior journalist at The Motley Fool Australia. He formerly wrote for Yahoo Finance, Business Insider and Guardian Australia. Please send story tips to tony.yoo(at)foolcontractors.com.

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Share Market News

ASX share at 30% discount but set to double earnings

| Tony Yoo

Cheap but set to grow earnings. This could be a stock that might be good value regardless of whether the…

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Share Market News

GameStop-style uprisings happened 100 years ago too

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Talking down to ordinary folks making money from the stock market is not a new phenomenon. We recall the 'bucket…

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Frazis Capital Partners portfolio manager Michael Frazi
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GameStop chaos: Love always wins over shorting

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This is why I stopped shorting, confesses one Sydney fund manager as he tells what long term impacts the short…

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Ask a Fund Manager

Forget growth or value: Here's a neutral way to pick shares

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Ask A Fund Manager: Redpoint's Max Cappetta reveals the two massive winners he picked last year and the one about…

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Woolworths (ASX:WOW) settles shareholders' lawsuit for $44.5 million

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Supermarket unexpectedly downgraded profit forecasts, sending its share price tumbling. Investors accused it of misleading conduct.

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Share Market News

GameStop chaos: Real reason Robinhood cut off retail investors

| Tony Yoo

The share trading platform cited extreme volatility for blocking users. But the real motivation is far simpler.

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GameStop frenzy: 3 shorted ASX shares that could shoot up

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The madness going down in America this week could spill over to Australia, says one investor behaviour expert.

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Revealed: ASX company underpaid staff $2.3 million

| Tony Yoo

Three-month old public company slips up and must apologise to its staff and invite auditors in to check its processes.

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Value Investing

Value investing lost AGAIN, but it'll be back

| Tony Yoo

Growth has been king for more than a decade now. So how do professional value fund managers explain the underperformance…

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Share Market News

Don't make massive ASX bets in 2021

| Tony Yoo

This year is not the time to pour your hard-earned dollars into entire sectors, regions or styles. Here's what to…

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Share Market News

Shock data: ASX growth shares could get hammered soon

| Tony Yoo

New numbers from Australian Bureau of Statistics could make the Reserve Bank anxious. And that won't be good for stock…

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Cryptocurrencies

Will we see a cryptocurrency ETF on the ASX this year?

| Tony Yoo

A way of investing in Bitcoin or Ethereum via shares purchases would open the door to millions of Australians with…

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Share Market News

This ASX company will double its earnings this year: fundie

| Tony Yoo

The housing sector is booming. These are the four ASX shares that will benefit the most, according to one fund…

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Investing Strategies

3 reasons to sell a share

| Tony Yoo

It's never been easier to buy shares. But it's still a difficult decision to sell. Here are the factors to…

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Consumer Staples & Discretionary Shares

Here's one party Woolies and Coles will not be attending

| Tony Yoo

20 years ago two small supermarkets quietly opened in Sydney. No one knew the brand would grow to become an…

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3 biggest risks to ASX share investors right now

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ASX share investors are optimistic for 2021 but here are the potential ugly events that could devastate portfolios in the…

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Share Market News

This Biden move will push shares to record highs

| Tony Yoo

He's only been president for a day, but Joe's already pulled off a manoeuvre that'll put a rocket under stocks,…

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ASX dividends will be up 30% this year: fundie

| Tony Yoo

One sector is set to boost payouts by almost 70% this year, predicts Tribeca Investment Partners portfolio manager Jun Bei…

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3 ASX shares powering the electric car revolution

| Tony Yoo

Check out the industry that's set to generate the highest amount of new jobs in the next 5 years. And…

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Share Market News

4 ASX 'winners' destined for growth: fundie

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Here are the 'structural winners' that'll future-proof your portfolio, according to a professional investor.

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Share Market News

Kogan (ASX:KGN) pays price for illegal emails

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Online retailer in trouble with the law again, paying a six-figure fine. Check out the company's response.

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Here's the biggest investment opportunity since the internet

| Tony Yoo

$27 trillion of capital will move to this emerging theme. Will you hop on or will you miss the bus?

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Share Market News

Aussies ready to splash on travel, entertainment, cars

| Tony Yoo

December spending data showed Australians are ready to throw a post-COVID party, and less interested in buying a home.

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Financial Shares

IOOF exec says she was sacked for mental illness

| Tony Yoo

Finance giant faces yet another court case from an ex-employee for alleged workplace trauma. Here's the rundown.

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Investing Strategies

Stop worrying about a market crash: Do this instead

| Tony Yoo

Investors understandably are becoming anxious about a plunge in share prices. But two experts say stop fretting and just be…

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Telstra furious about freebies to Optus, TPG

| Tony Yoo

Guaranteeing spectrum to certain companies would amount to 'unprecedented and extremely aggressive regulatory intervention', Telstra stated.

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Share Market News

Risk vs uncertainty: why one is a lot worse

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Do you know the difference? It's critical when investing in shares to work out whether a company has one or…

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Share Market News

This ASX company's in a comfy duopoly with NBN

| Tony Yoo

Right place at the right time: A subtle business transformation just before COVID prepared it perfectly for the post-pandemic world.

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Fund portfolio manager Hamish Tadgell
Ask a Fund Manager

Think you saw growth in 2020? Just wait for 2021: fundie

| Tony Yoo

Ask A Fund Manager: SG Hiscock's Hamish Tadgell reveals how the share market will transition from 'hope' to 'growth' in…

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IOOF (ASX:IFL) execs accused of sexual harassment

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Serious allegations come to light in court papers served on finance giant, reminiscent of AMP's troubles last year.

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End Qantas-Virgin duopoly, says ACCC

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Domestic aviation sector under fire for making it difficult for challengers to break the incumbents' stranglehold.

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Share Market News

Either Rex or Virgin will perish: Qantas boss

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There's not enough room for 3 airlines, says Alan Joyce. And history probably proves him right.

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BHP, Rio Tinto's new copper mine under threat

| Tony Yoo

Mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP have a lot riding on this new venture, but now face a lawsuit from…

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⏸️ Investor Education

4 ways to lose all your money

| Tony Yoo

Here are the psychological traps some investors fall into. Be aware of these and avoid being sucked in yourself.

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Tyro (ASX:TYR) could face legal action for catastrophic outage

| Tony Yoo

Customers and shareholders could sue the fintech over the 'bricked' terminals disaster that's now turning into an existential crisis.

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Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO)'s top growth project could be cancelled

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The giant miner's $8.7 billion copper-gold mine expansion project is under threat from the Mongolian government.

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The sector that'll grow 480% this year, expert says

| Tony Yoo

Can you smell that? That's the fragrance of a booming industry, which is still in a startup phase in Australia.

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Worley share price profit update
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COVID-19 permanently wrecked these shares, report warns

| Tony Yoo

Ratings agency report lists all the headwinds for this subsector, and it makes for grim reading.

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Former Cimic Group Ltd (ASX: CIM) chief operating officer David Savage has been arrested
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Ex-COO of ASX giant arrested in Sydney

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David Savage returns from France and goes into hotel quarantine. Then Australian Federal Police pounced over allegations of bribery in…

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Angry Tyro (ASX:TYR) customers jump ship

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Small business clients are leaving the Australian fintech after a massive outage enters its 2nd week. See how fired up…

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