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The coming boom

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Forget the fiscal cliff, prudent investors should be preparing for better times ahead

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Kathmandu sales climb

| Mike King

Good news for the retail sector

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NIB continues to deliver

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

NIB wouldn’t be out of place in many portfolios

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New car sales continue to grow

| Mike King

Down 2.8% compared to previous month but up 8.6% over last year

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Directors lash out at 'two-strike' rule

| Mike King

It's not perfect - but at least directors have received a wake-up call

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3 ASX stocks that thumped a falling market

| Mike King

ASX falls 0.9% as global fears weigh

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Warm weather lifts Myer

| Mike King

Department store records first quarterly rise in sales since 2009

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Flexigroup: Has it flown too close to the sun?

| Mike King

Share price has climbed 77% since February

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3 ASX stocks that rose more than 4% today

| Mike King

ASX rises a cautious 0.2%, but these three stocks did much better

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Nokia Maps on your iPhone

| Mike King

Google reported to also be working on an iOS mapping app

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Diamonds not BHP's best friend

| Mike King

Miner sells last of its diamond assets

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LNG cost blowouts jeopardise Australia's future

| Mike King

Gorgon LNG Project costs estimated to increase by $20 billion

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The end of TV as we know it

| Mike King

Ten + Nine + Seven equals two?

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24-hour online megasale

| Mike King

Hundreds of retailers will be hoping for a clicking frenzy next week

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Asbestos case: James Hardie directors banned, fined

| Mike King

Directors liable for statements issued by their companies

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3 ASX stocks dumped by the market

| Mike King

ASX drops 0.3%, but these three fell by more than 6%

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The end of universities?

| Mike King

Demand for online education explodes

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Business failures on the rise

| Mike King

10,000 businesses hit the wall in last 12 months

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We will remember them

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Lest We Forget

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3 ASX stocks slammed today

| Mike King

ASX drops again, but not as far as these three stocks

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Dick Smith set to expand

| Mike King

Can private equity expand this struggling business?

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Internet filter dumped

| Mike King

5 years after originally being proposed, watered-down version adopted

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More large falls in newspaper circulation

| Mike King

But 18 million print newspapers still sold each week

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Looking into the future of mining

| Regan Pearson

How do you value miners now that the bubble has popped?

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RBA holds steady

| Tim McArthur

What the RBA's decision means for the economy

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The Motley Fool's Test XI

| Mike King

Our picks for the Australian team

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3 ASX stocks crunched by the market

| Mike King

ASX falls 0.7%, but these three fared even worse

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Shopping malls reinventing themselves

| Mike King

The drive to attract foot traffic intensifies

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Your services are no longer required

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Don't let unscrupulous advisors take advantage of you

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3 ASX stocks that thumped the market yesterday

| Mike King

ASX rose 0.7%, but these three added more than 5%

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Electricity users overcharged by $3 billion

| Mike King

ACCC says poorly run industry has resulted in users being overcharged

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Surviving a post-election market crash

| Bruce Jackson

The S&P 500 had its biggest one-day drop since June overnight, on the back of the US elections. Prepare yourself…

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Why I recently bought Billabong

| Mike King

Is this company set to be dumped, or surf its way back into profit?

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Dollar-Cost averaging isn't dumb

| Motley Fool Staff

The best investing approach is to choose great companies

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RBA tells savers: Switch to shares

| Mike King

Low deposit rates means the share market offers better opportunities

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Finally, some bank competition

| Mike King

Big four banks look set to get increased competition

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3 ASX stocks that rode the market

| Mike King

ASX ends up slightly, but these three large caps did much better

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Housing market staging slow recovery

| Mike King

More borrowers comfortable about taking on mortgages

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DJs fighting back online

| Mike King

Online sales triple while customers double in a month

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Beaten by its own index: ASX shares lag

| Tim McArthur

Owning the exchange isn't enough to beat the index

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