Micro-caps: Look where others don’t!
The small end of the ASX has gone nowhere for ten months. Something shifted in the last fortnight, and most investors have not noticed it yet.

The small end of the ASX has gone nowhere for ten months. Something shifted in the last fortnight, and most investors have not noticed it yet.

Oil and Gold have been the opposing asset classes this year, while one’s up, the other is down. But the remainder of 2026 could give rise to something much different.
By James Cooper,

Australia’s micro-cap market looks unloved amid recession chatter, AI mania and bond-market panic — exactly the kind of neglected territory contrarian investors should be watching.

Tech bros got rich from scalable business models. But AI isn’t scalable. Its costs and revenues are closely linked. And we don’t yet know which is greater.
By Jim Rickards,

The US just sold 30 year bonds at the highest rate since 2001. If Big Tech stalls under that pressure, gold and oversold tech could benefit from the rotation.

A $2.5 billion bailout for Rio Tinto’s Tomago aluminium smelter has dominated the headlines — but the real story may be what it reveals about future demand for aluminium’s raw material. The same forces driving copper (renewables, EVs, data centres and grid buildouts) are also lifting aluminium use, and that points straight to bauxite.
By James Cooper,
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