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The Cockroaches are Multiplying

Charlie Ormond

Six weeks ago, I asked whether private credit was the new subprime. Things are only looking worse since.

Green Light Still Pending

Murray Dawes

Markets surged this week on news of a ceasefire in Iran. But a strict reading of the trading model suggests caution, with short-term risks still pointing to potential downside despite strong price action.

Part I: The Great Energy Pivot: How the Rules of Global Oil and Gas Are Being Rewritten

James Cooper

The old energy order is fracturing. Decades of balance between buyers and sellers is unravelling — and the suppliers are winning.

The Chokepoint Always Wins

Charlie Ormond

Markets continue to price this as a temporary disruption. But the idea that Iran will simply hand Hormuz back for free looks naïve in the gaze of history.

Commodities

Part I: The Great Energy Pivot: How the Rules of Global Oil and Gas Are Being Rewritten

James Cooper

The old energy order is fracturing. Decades of balance between buyers and sellers is unravelling — and the suppliers are winning.

Markets Celebrating Like the War is Over. Except it isn’t.

James Cooper

Markets are rallying — but don’t be fooled. One critical support level suggests the oil crisis has further to run.

Nuclear is the last great power standing

Nick Hubble

We didn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way. But now that we have, the need for nuclear is too obvious to ignore any longer. Wake up, Australia.

Relative Strength, Absolute Conviction: Reading Oil’s Rise Before It Happened

James Cooper

While JPMorgan and the IEA predicted falling oil prices, one contrarian signal quietly pointed to the trade of the year.

From Rust to Renaissance: Can Victoria Reclaim Its Industrial Crown?

James Cooper

The commodities boom won’t last forever. Here’s why its aftermath could quietly reshape Australia’s industrial landscape for decades

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Technology

The Cockroaches are Multiplying

Charlie Ormond

Six weeks ago, I asked whether private credit was the new subprime. Things are only looking worse since.

The Chokepoint Always Wins

Charlie Ormond

Markets continue to price this as a temporary disruption. But the idea that Iran will simply hand Hormuz back for free looks naïve in the gaze of history.

AI’s Next Bottleneck is Plumbing

Charlie Ormond

Everyone’s watching chips and power. Almost no one is watching the optical shifts that insiders are scrambling to solve. That’s about to change.

Death of the Petrodollar

Charlie Ormond

Iran is offering Hormuz passage in exchange for yuan settlement. This could be the wedge that splits the world’s financial system in two.

An Era of ‘Cheap War’

Charlie Ormond

Drones are reshaping warfare. And the economics of shooting them down don’t add up. Here’s one company that could change that.

Small Caps

China Capitulation Part 9 – Rethinking a regime’s control over its people

Brian Chu

Iran has shown that a regime can suppress its people but still end up more vulnerable than ever. This could be a warning to the Chinese Communist Party elites that a massive army don’t ensure their safety.

Don’t Watch The Strait, Read This

Lachlann Tierney

Iran’s oil shock is squeezing markets while AI devours electricity, pushing capital toward one overlooked winner: baseload nuclear and uranium plays

Here we go

Lachlann Tierney

Trump’s Iran ultimatum expires at our ASX market open tomorrow. Here’s why the energy trade is only getting started. Think phases and always be prepared.

Easter Monday, energy chaos, and an even bigger lithium rebound!?

Lachlann Tierney

Will small-cap commodities stocks rise again? Happy Easter Monday, Lachlann Tierney shares what happens in the pages of Australian Small-Cap Investigator.

The Iranian campaign – The bigger picture that many missed

Brian Chu

Yesterday’s announcements from the US and Iran about a potential de-escalation of tensions brought optimism back into the market as oil tumbled. Confused about why? Perhaps you missed the actual objectives of this campaign…