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Profit falls never sound good

| Mike King

Unhappy investors punish Cochlear's share price

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Reporting season preview – resources companies

| Mike King

Commodity prices could play a major part in the performance of our resources companies this earnings season

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Reporting season preview – telecommunications

| Mike King

Dividend yields are not the only important numbers to consider

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Reporting preview – retailers

| Mike King

Comparable store sales are one of the key factors when looking at retailers

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Reporting preview – Contracting and services companies

| Mike King

With notoriously thin margins, services companies need to be watched carefully

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Reporting season preview

| Mike King

Follow the Fool's guides this reporting season

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Facebook shares could fall another 50%

| Motley Fool Staff

The shares have performed so poorly because they began trading at an outrageously inflated valuation

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Will mergers be the Midas touch for shareholders?

| Mike King

Silver Lake's golden deal for Integra

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Are Olympic sponsors getting gold?

| Motley Fool Staff

Chief executives love the pomp and circumstance, but it's unclear whether shareholders really benefit from their investment

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Are miners betting the house on iron ore prices?

| Mike King

Fortescue takes on more debt

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Facebook sets the stage for world domination

| Motley Fool Staff

Facebook is maturing

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Dear Apple: Get back to work

| Motley Fool Staff

You’re wasting our time and our money

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Is this the "Tobacco Moment" for banking?

| Motley Fool Staff

The comparison refers to the hundreds of billions of dollars that tobacco companies were fined in the late 1990s

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AAco in a bull market

| Tony Reardon

The long term trends look good for this company

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Action-seeking investors punish market

| Mike King

BHP's writedowns and Healthcare stocks in the news

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ALE pubs prosper

| Tony Reardon

An attractive yield - and tenant - make ALE one to watch

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Resmed reports 12% jump in profit

| Mike King

Could this be a stock to watch?

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Paint and chips fly as war breaks out

| Mike King

Dulux and Alesco fighting a war of words

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BHP takes $2.8 billion writedown

| Mike King

With lower gas prices predicted over the next decade, are there more writedowns to come?

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Is Brazil a contrarian buy?

| Motley Fool Staff

Brazil still has compelling demographics, with a young and growing population

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Could the euro be saved tonight?

| Motley Fool Staff

Have markets learned anything?

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Crown's gamble as retail sales rise

| Mike King

James Packer's Crown to build $1bn hotel in Sydney

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Newcrest – gold medal contender for 2016?

| Tony Reardon

Is the gold miner undervalued by the market?

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Tinkler's bid for Whitehaven on the rocks?

| Mike King

Coal prices fall, is a lower offer coming?

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Three midcap stocks for income

| Tony Reardon

Some of the better options are outside the realms of the better known, blue chip businesses

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The blue chip portfolio that's jumped 20% higher in 2012

| Bruce Jackson

The ASX is on the rise, recently closing at a 3-month high. But, our 4 top stocks for 2012 have…

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BHP facing the perfect storm?

| Mike King

What else could go wrong?

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Graincorp – basically bread and beer

| Tony Reardon

The agribusiness has growth on the agenda

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

One gold stock on my radar: Silver Lake Resources

| Bruce Jackson

Some pundits, including Roger Montgomery, are proclaiming the mining boom over. But, we're seeing some interesting opportunities in the beaten-down…

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Australand develops profits

| Tony Reardon

Steady as she goes for this property group

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Bank struggles to continue as housing remains soft

| Mike King

Credit growth hard to come by

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A 10-bagger in a week and dividends in demand

| Mike King

ASX market closes slightly lower as investors await news from US and Euro policymaker meetings

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Is Apple about to copy Google?

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Would you wear enhanced reality glasses?

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Video: Costco founder Jim Sinegal on the company's most important customer

| Motley Fool Staff

Is Costco a retail company or a membership company?

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Winners and losers in the telco war

| Mike King

Telco wars aren’t hurting share prices

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Don't get 'boiled' alive

| Tony Reardon

The old adage - if it looks too good to be true, it probably is - remains as relevant as…

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IOOF adopts Plan B

| Tony Reardon

Acquisitions are the order of the day in the wealth management sector

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10-speed economy under stress?

| Mike King

Or is this just part of the normal business cycle?

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The online delivery war heats up

| Mike King

Toll sends Australia Post a message

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Facebook and Yahoo! Let bygones be bygones

| Motley Fool Staff

A settlement will benefit both Facebook and Yahoo!, especially if they can turn it into top-line upside

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