Home / Australian Share Market News & Commentary

Australian Share Market News & Commentary

Latest ASX share market news. Find out which Australian shares are moving the stock market today, and which shares to buy.

Latest News Articles

a woman
⏸️ Investing

iPad killer? Microsoft's new tablet

| Mike King

Apple’s iPads have taken the world by storm, but the competition is coming and Microsoft has Apple in its sights.

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Audio: The 1 thing the next iPhone needs

| Motley Fool Staff

Apple faces strong competition from Samsung

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Glistening: Gold price hits new highs

| Mike King

Low-cost producers to shine

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: In smartphone shipments, Apple plays second fiddle

| Motley Fool Staff

Samsung has a phone worthy of serious consideration next to the iPhone

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

10 reasons to still believe in Facebook

| Motley Fool Staff

There's plenty to like at Facebook. You just need to know where to look.

Read more »

a woman
⏸️ Investing

Staying high: Aussie dollar rallies again

| Mike King

Can it make new highs?

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: 1 reason Google's bigger than you think

| Motley Fool Staff

Most investors overlook this company's incredible scope

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

iPhone 5 announcement: 3 important things to watch

| Motley Fool Staff

Tonight, the world will be watching as Apple announces the iPhone 5

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Baidu wants the world — and wants it now

| Motley Fool Staff

Baidu's goal is to generate more than half of its revenue outside China by 2020

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Zuckerberg: No Facebook phone on the way

| Motley Fool Staff

Facebook emphasises the growing importance of mobile

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

What happened to the middle class?

| Motley Fool Staff

Why middle-class finances have deteriorated is one of the most complicated subjects out there

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Audio: The real winners in the race to build the internet

| Motley Fool Staff

"Cloud companies" with money to invest, will be the real winners in the long run

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

What's going on at Lend Lease?

| Tony Reardon

Questions are being asked, and shareholders are nervous

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

ING Direct promises super shake up

| Tony Reardon

A new way to invest your superannuation

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Will Goodman Fielder lose a major shareholder?

| Tim McArthur

Goodman Fielder's latest moves may not be universally popular

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Another day, another bank hybrid

| Tony Reardon

These 'income notes' aren't all they're cracked up to be

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: When should I sell my shares?

| Motley Fool Staff

What's your purpose?

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Boom over? Coal miners shed 2,000 jobs

| Mike King

More jobs could go

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

4 habits of highly effective investors

| Motley Fool Staff

Accelerate your wealth-building prowess. Here's how.

Read more »

a woman
⏸️ Investing

10 books to help you invest better

| Motley Fool Staff

From what I've seen, reading appears to be the competitive advantage of great investors

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Audio: The big opportunity for tablets

| Motley Fool Staff

Ultimately, companies will end up competing in two tablet markets: one high-end and one low-end

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Twiggy and Gina: Marriage of convenience?

| Mike King

A tie up between Hancock Prospecting and Fortescue is on the cards

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Buffett's new bank

| Motley Fool Staff

A tremendous amount of due diligence goes in to evaluating a financial institution

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Rooster to feather duster: Ten falls to number 4

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Ratings and profits are hard to come by for the free-to-air network

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Why the American recovery is so slow

| Motley Fool Staff

Business literally comes to a stop without credit greasing the wheels of commerce

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: China's smartphone boom is just getting started

| Motley Fool Staff

China saw a 199% increase from last year

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: Is Apple's core being crushed?

| Motley Fool Staff

There are dangers to Apple's culture in its current legal battles

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: The tech trend for the next decade

| Motley Fool Staff

There's a long way to go before we know what final form software-defined networking takes

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

2 reasons Apple will disrupt mobile payments

| Motley Fool Staff

What could a NFC-enabled iPhone do? Process payments, of course.

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: Google invests in its future in an unexpected way

| Motley Fool Staff

But how much upside does this provide to the Google shareholder?

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

McMillan Shakespeare packs a punch

| Tony Reardon

The salary packager has a bright future... as long as laws don't change

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Has Twiggy's fairytale turned Grim?

| Henry Jennings

Andrew Forrest will be hoping there's a happy ending for the iron ore price

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

iPhone 5 preview: Everything you need to know

| Motley Fool Staff

We're now only a few days away from Apple's iPhone 5 unveiling

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Why eBay isn't the business you thought

| Motley Fool Staff

eBay is banking on its mobile payment system PayPal to catch on with large businesses

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Google fires a missile at Apple from home

| Motley Fool Staff

Google rarely leans on its home page for marketing support

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

How many iPhone 5 units can Apple sell in 9 days?

| Motley Fool Staff

In just a matter of days, Apple is going to unveil its iPhone 5

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Video: Another sign of the post-PC world

| Motley Fool Staff

Emerging markets like China have been propping up weak PC growth in America and Europe

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Does Baidu have to start worrying about Microsoft?

| Motley Fool Staff

Microsoft's emphasis is mobile

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

How to be a happy investor

| Motley Fool Staff

If only investing could bring the joy of making money with the minimum of stress

Read more »

⏸️ Investing

Can the iPhone 5 double Apple's lifetime iPhone unit sales?

| Motley Fool Staff

Many are expecting to see unprecedented upgrade activity

Read more »