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Investors shun Maverick's 205% profit rise

| Mike King

Maverick to ramp up drilling in the 2013 financial year

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Why the NBN could be a white elephant

| Mike King

Consumers say no thanks to fibre

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Another Australian company up for sale?

| Mike King

Overseas buyers active in Australia's 'soft commodities' market

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Flight Centre profit takes off

| Mike King

Convenience for time poor consumers means travel agents are still in high demand

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Movers and groovers on the ASX

| Mike King

Earnings season continues

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Is mobile the future of online classifieds?

| Regan Pearson

Will the online sites suffer the same fate as newspapers

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One business good, three businesses bad?

| Tony Reardon

Is Suncorp doomed to be a jack of all trades and a master of none?

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Shoe's on the other foot – banks to be hit with fees?

| Mike King

Yellow Brick Road chairman calls for government to charge the banks

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BHP predicts further price falls

| Mike King

Falling commodity prices refocus miner

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Another day, another underperforming company

| Mike King

Billabong profits dumped

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Robots vs. Regulators: How we lost control of the market

| Motley Fool Staff

High-frequency trading is not the greatest threat to your portfolio, but it is one of many potential threats that we…

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Is Netflix the next Facebook — in a good way?

| Motley Fool Staff

Netflix appears to have a steady growth formula on its hands

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Microsoft and Apple bet big on tablets for the holiday season

| Motley Fool Staff

Expect tablets to stuff many a stocking this year

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These construction companies need Bob the Builder

| Regan Pearson

Can they fix it? Not without an uptick in construction activity

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Will QR National be a casualty of a mining bust?

| Tim McArthur

The company fell short on volumes, but cut costs to deliver a solid result

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When $107 billion isn't enough

| Tony Reardon

Wealth management companies will always struggle to perform when the market is soft

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AMA: Positives behind the headlines

| Peter Phan

The motoring group's headlines results weren't great, but hide a strong performance

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Slater & Gordon: A faintly familiar story continues

| Peter Phan

More revenue growth, but profit falls

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Mortgage Choice is a broker unbroken

| Tony Reardon

Fears of a broken business model appear unfounded

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Cirrus logic to investors: The iPhone 5 launch will be epic

| Motley Fool Staff

What if the iPhone 5 is bigger than anyone predicted?

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Is this former internet powerhouse making a comeback?

| Motley Fool Staff

Can it succeed? It's got a good portfolio

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Resources billionaires' nightmare

| Mike King

Fortunes at risk as iron ore and coal prices plummet

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Is Fairfax Media a buy?

| Mike King

The company is getting cheaper, but is it cheap enough?

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Billionaire drops bid for Whitehaven

| Mike King

Where to now for the billionaire mining magnate?

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Buffett, The Beatles, and investing success

| Motley Fool Staff

The Oracle might have been born to invest, but he's also worked very hard at it!

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Wesfarmers still eating Woolies' lunch

| Mike King

Dick Smith Electronics assets written down to almost nothing

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Movers and shakers on the ASX

| Mike King

ASX rises 0.2% today, as gold stocks recover from horror year

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Fortescue's race to 2014

| Mike King

Will the company generate enough cash to meet its debt obligations?

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Fairfax writes down its assets by $2.8 billion

| Mike King

Will it turnaround the company's fortunes?

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Qantas result: flying into the red

| Mike King

Company reports first loss since listing 17 years ago

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A Reject, or a bargain business

| Tim McArthur

Good revenue growth, but soft same-store sales make The Reject Shop a difficult proposition

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Why natural disasters can be good for insurers

| Mike King

IAG turnaround continues

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Even if it wins in the courts, Apple can't win

| Motley Fool Staff

Samsung -- the only handset maker selling more smartphones than Apple these days

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Is Olympic Dam strike three for BHP's CEO?

| Mike King

BHP scales back its expansion plans while Rio and Fortescue push ahead

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IMF exceeds expectations

| Peter Phan

The litigation funder continues to turn in impressive results

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A Coke and a beer chaser

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Australia's Coke bottler has more than one iron in the fire

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Falling commodity prices hit BHP's profits

| Mike King

Cost cutting and business rationalisation begins

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Seek and you shall find

| Henry Jennings

The online employment powerhouse keeps delivering

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AGL's carbon scheming

| Mike King

Carbon tax expected to provide a positive gain

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Woodside's Pluto stuck in first gear

| Mike King

Where to now for Australia's largest pure oil and gas play?

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