A lithium rush led by Albemarle’s $6 billion bid for Liontown and an offer by Mineral Resources to buy the Bald Hill mine saved the Australian market from the worst effects of a mid-week...

By Tim Treadgold   Andrew Forrest returned to centre-stage this week with a starring performance that rescued the share price of his Fortescue mining group, but it wasn’t the only big event as annual results...

Hints of a pause in the U.S. interest rate rising cycle buoyed investment markets towards the end of the week as bankers gathered in the Wyoming ski resort of Jackson Hole to hear the...

A blast of corporate action in Australia’s red hot lithium sector saved local investors this week from the full effects of a global sell-off sparked by a double whammy of property and banking crises...

Lithium dominated investor interest this week but it wasn’t one-way traffic and it wasn’t the only game in town.

By Tim Treadgold

A promising stock market recovery early this week was snuffed out by the deeply significant downgrading of U.S. Government debt by Fitch Ratings, just as an event that will trigger the next boom –...

Another 0.25% increase in the U.S. benchmark interest rate to a 22-year high of 5.5% was the biggest event in an exceptionally busy few days on financial markets this week with all eyes now...

Confession time. It always precedes annual reporting season and arrived on cue this week with IGO first to admit to an almighty blooper when it wrote off close to $1 billion, or almost 75%,...

Gold is the big winner from the sharp fall reported this week in U.S. inflation and the first clear look at an end to the cycle of rising interest rates.

By Tim Treadgold

China giveth and China taketh away. Perhaps without anyone noticing, that was the theme of the first week of the new financial year with China sparking a rare earths rush before dulling confidence in...