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The social media giant's latest earnings mark a dramatic turnaround for the company and have once again made Mark Zuckerberg the darling of Wall Street.











Weak retail sales data is just the latest sign that the economy is struggling, but investors are still pushing the ASX to new heights in anticipation that rate cuts will come sooner rather than later.



For value investors, Australia's biggest bank is a conundrum. It is expensive on every measure but its share price keeps on flying and has defied gravity for almost two decades.



As the country's economic problems grow, so does the doom and gloom among investors in its shrinking stock markets.











The crash in prices for metals that are crucial to the energy transition is testing the fortitude of Australian miners.








Chinese stocks keep falling, despite a push by Beijing to talk up the world's second largest economy at Davos. Is this a signal of trouble ahead, or a buying opportunity?



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