I want to take you through the Citi Bear Market Checklist, a historically very good assessor of whether a stock market is on the way up or down by looking at 18 possible reasons to get out of stocks.

RBA Governor Dr Phil Lowe will have to wrestle with and answer this question over upcoming months this year. Here’s what I think.

If the RBA Governor and his board decide to raise interest rates before the May 21 election it will be a case of the Bank putting the economy before politics.

What are nabtraders buying in this market?

The scene of the potential crime for the Federal Government could be next Tuesday’s Reserve Bank Board meeting, where we could see a 0.4% jump in the cash rate, taking it to 0.5%.

Standby for a huge tsunami of inflation and interest rate prediction news, which will start with today’s release of the Consumer Price Index out at 11:30 am.

Are there positive signs for the economy despite a dip in our Economic Activity Tracker?

What are nabtraders buying this week?

If I thought Putin, Chinese and inflation threats would be hurting longer than I currently do, then I’d join the pity partygoers, who often scare the pants off investors and even some of my financial planning clients!

Savers have something to celebrate at long last. Term deposit rates have cracked 3%!

Is there more pain on the horizon for tech stocks, or does the bond market suggest a positive uptrend?

With US inflation coming out overnight at 8.5%, a person might be wondering if economists’ confidence that inflation can be controlled to avoid crazy interest rates is misplaced.