The US-Iran rollercoaster rolls on, with every day a new revelation and a new reality. As the week started, investors saw a potential peace deal quickly escalate to war and attacks by the United States by lunchtime, only for the following day to see it back to promises of a deal by President Trump, followed by yet more war. By Thursday, investors didn’t know which way was up, with the ASX opened relatively flat before conceding a whopping 1.5 per cent by midday after Iran f

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Hydrix Limited. After the bloodshed of last week’s budget, Australian markets have calmed a little this week. Aided by US President Trump's latest truth social tirade, the temperamental leader of the free world suggested that the US and Iran were once again in the "final stages” of negotiations. The hopes of any kind of deal, at least, soothed oil prices and caused Australia's mining sector to take off simultaneously

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Myeco Group. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File How good. The government is not only useless at spending your money, it now wants more of it. As expected, this week the two things that the Labor Party promised a year ago would not be touched – the capital gains discount and negative gearing – have popped up in what is being hailed by holes-in-his-pockets treasurer Jim Chalmers as the “most ambitious budget in decades”. Throw in a

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Key Petroleum. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for oil and Australia? Computer says no, or at least the ASX did this week. The exchange remains wary and wandering, despite our usual bellwether US brethren charging ahead to even higher all-time highs. Wild swings in oil prices continue to plague our export-heavy economy, with uncertainty and at times, insanity around the US-Iran negotiations, causing the Str

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… 1414 Degrees. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Sorry for sounding like a broken record. But it’s the same old story. The new week brought yet another US President Trump assassination attempt, the Strait of Hormuz remains shut, shut, shut and the price of oil is up, up, up. We are nearly back to the early Iran war highs of US$130 per barrel of Brent, with oil touching US$125 this week. The ASX floundered and Australia remained s

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Solis Minerals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File And the rollercoaster rolls on for the ASX. The mighty Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, addressed our nation this week to celebrate his procurement of a massive two more days of fuel (200 million litres or 1.25 million barrels), flagging his earnest desire to secure our country’s future, one day at a time. In a very rare occurrence, the ASX has officially decoupled from the S&P5

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Bison Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File There is just one question the world and markets care about right now. Is the Strait of Hormuz open or closed? Fresh into another week of 20 per cent less oil and gas, US President Donald Trump has cracked under the pressure and seemingly hit the drink. The Don’s gone full pirate mode, blasting out rum-fuelled social media posts at all hours of the night, whilst simultaneously s

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Sparc Technologies. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Markets have come ripping back on this short post-Easter week. A long-awaited truce between the United States, Israel and Iran briefly gave traders permission to stop panic-buying oil and return markets to “risk on” again. News of the ceasefire dropped just moments before the ASX opened on Wednesday and money flowed back into the market like hot, flowing crude through the Str

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Cassius Mining, which doubled on its $1.32B damages claim against the Ghanaian government in a David vs Goliath mining dispute.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Killi Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File The countdown is on. No, it’s not US President Trump’s countdown to power plant strikes in Iran and no, it’s unfortunately not the countdown to blastoff of SpaceX’s reported $100 billion IPO – a valuation likely to be in the trillions with a ‘T’. The countdown is on until perhaps the most resource-rich country in the world runs out of fuel. Not a great thing for a vast country,

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Immutep Limited. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File War wages on in the Middle East and unsurprisingly, the oil price chart looks positively parabolic. Brent oil is well and truly settling in for the long ride at the US$ 100-a-barrel mark, which will inevitably have serious inflationary implications globally. What started as a relatively stable week turned into absolute bloodshed on Thursday morning, following the Dow’s drop of m

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… 88 Energy. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Dire straits in the Strait of Hormuz. Turns out the skinny little waterway – the one funnelling 20-25 per cent of the world’s oil and a hefty chunk of LNG – really is the artery the global economy can’t live without. And when Iran starts lashing out at anything floating within drone range, the whole system goes berserk. Oil absolutely went full rocket mode as oil tankers and cargo shi

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… OD6 Metals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File It’s probably not a great thing that, despite war breaking out between the United States and Iran, it almost feels familiar at this stage. March has dawned and the long-simmering showdown finally boiled over last weekend. The US and Israel unleashed Operation Epic Fury on the Islamic Republic of Iran and, within the first day, had taken out the head of the snake, assassinating the op

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Hubify Limited. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Perhaps in a first for global markets, a blog post sent Wall Street into a tizzy at the start of the week. A rogue Substack post went viral, literally putting the doom in scrolling and hitting harder than any earnings miss. The culprits, Citrini Research, dropped a thought-provoking piece titled “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.” Framed as a fictional macro memo from the futu

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Recharge Metals, which snapped up the Sunset Well project in the heart of WA’s Leonora district complete with 94,500-ounces of gold.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Great Dirt Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Friday the 13th has delivered once again. The market is looking bruised and battered to end the week, with US tech and the NASDAQ slipping again overnight, leaving the ASX in a panic this morning. Apple slid 5 per cent and dragged six of the Magnificent Seven down with it, as delayed January jobs data, courtesy of the government shutdown hangover, also landed mid-week and w

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Solstice Minerals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File POP goes the… everything. It was bubble trouble galore this week, as all things tech, AI, crypto and precious metals took a proper hiding. The yanks are pulling their ripcords after the mega AI darlings turned in a nasty three-day losing streak thanks to some sobering revenue outlooks and eye-watering capex numbers. A reminder that even the most revolutionary technology needs

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Australian Strategic Materials. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Its not even Australia Day and 2026 has already delivered huge political shake-ups to an already tense global geopolitical environment. The big movements in world politics appear to have finally made it to Australia’s shores as the Coalition looks to finally split down the middle, perhaps this time for good. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Nationals’ leader

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Zelira Therapeutics Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File If market screens had a “glitch of the week” alert, it would’ve been flashing non-stop lately, with geopolitical and domestic political curveballs landing almost daily. Yet again, the last seven days seem to have delivered in spades. Fresh from his Venezuelan victory march, The Don was straight back to business, with renewed efforts to convince Greenlanders that they are alwa

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Hydrix Ltd, which locked in a $2.5 million deal to develop SynCardia’s next-gen fully-implantable artificial heart.