Large gains in your portfolio are a good problem to have but the good news also comes with psychological baggage.

US stocks sank on a report Michael Flynn would implicate Donald Trump as having colluded with Russia to rig the election.

The ASX ended Friday's session on an upbeat note, with investors buying into energy stocks after a dramatic week that included a royal commission into the financial sector.

Some out-of-the-box thinking threw up bargain investment ideas at the Future Generation Investment Forum.

Bitcoin is all the rage, but there are also a handful of stocks that have equalled the digital currency's gravity-defying surge this year.

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​We are still seeing a positive trend in speculative appetite across the various global market benchmarks, but the addition of volatility is causing a certain degree of nausea among traders.