Daily FNArena News

When putting together a long-term investment portfolio, look at the historical returns for various types of assets, suggests Investment U.

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills suggests rising poverty in the US highlights the need for fiscal policy to be re-visited.

Update on share prices and consensus price targets. Today the focus is on engineers and services providers, including WorleyParsons and NRW Holdings.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with BA-ML revising commodity forecasts and updates on the bulks, base and platinum group metals.

The Chartist is very bullish gold in the medium term, from a technical perspective.

Share price gains over the past year prompted RBS Australia to downgrade to a Hold rating last month, but Moelis continues to rate junior telco BigAir as a Buy given a solid growth outlook.

Both BA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank have updated their views on gold and their sector preferences, while Standard Bank remains cautious on the short-term technical picture.

FNArena’s weekly update on short positions in the Australian share market.

Tim Price of PFP Wealth Management notes further quantitative easing measures from central banks are inflationary, implying investors should shift from paper assets to real assets.

Elk Petroleum offers an attractive production growth profile from Enhanced Oil Recovery operations in the US and DJ Carmichael initiates coverage with a Buy rating.