While optimism is creeping back into the stock market, I figure we have two months of anxiety-creating economic data to watch before I can confidently tell you that stocks will surge in 2024.

The owners of 7-Eleven stores in this country have just sold their business to the Japanese parent of the international chain for a cool $1.71 billion.

Have we seen the end of the misery that has brought 13 rate rises to those now struggling to pay off their mortgage?

Now is a good time for me to analyse the NZ election.

Baby boomer bashing might have peaked following a thoughtful look at the intergenerational blue that has developed in recent years over the outrageous price of houses in this country. Here’s what it says.

I have strong reasons for my disposition to be positive, apart from the fact that I’d rather be that way rather than look for the negative, which will always be there if you dig for it. I can see good reasons to expect we’ll make money out of stocks next year and I’m not alone in my positive outlook.

Dr Jim has to be hoping that RBA Governor Michele Bullock gets her interest rate calls right. If she doesn’t, the voters of Australia won’t care who raised rates, they’ll blame Albo, Dr Jim and the Labor Party.

Black Friday sales start today. Ordinarily I’d be rooting for retailers but this year I’m hoping for an underwhelming Black Friday, and here’s why.

It looks like some bosses have grown tired of the work-from-home trend that exploded out of the pandemic and its related lockdowns.