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Steve Mcknight from propertyinvesting.com has just released his July video update. If you are a current property investor or home owner or you are thinking of entering the property market in the next 6 months then you will want to see this video.

Steve McKnight covers:

1. Everything you need to know about recent important press articles
2. Is there a Housing Boom On The Horizon?
3. Current State Of The Property Market
4. To Fix Or Not To Fix

Steve also goes on to mention his upcoming one off seminar in Melbourne on the 9th of August. More info on that here.

You can check out the Video here.

On my recent property travels around the interweb, I’ve found these handy sites.

1. http://www.hotspotting.com.au - this site allows you to purchase reports (most are $88) on hotspots, high growth areas, no go zones and more.
2. http://www.positiverealestate.com.au/ - lists properties by investment strategy. For example if you are looking for subdivisions, strata titling or positive cash flow properties you can do it all from this site. There is also a heap of other tools and information available.
3. http://www.propertyupdate.com.au/0108/seminar_download.htm - Lastly this site has available Michael Yardney’s last web cast as an MP3, 2 special reports and an ebook available for download. Check em out.

Today’s report from our friends over at Invest4profit.com.au covers 9 top Australian companies.

Paul Nojin covers these companies current price, 2009 price to earnings ratio and his comments on key prices and possible direction for the stocks.

The Stocks covered are:

• Babcock & Brown    (bnb)
• Beach Petroleum     (bpt)
• Bluescope Steel      (bsl)
• Cochlear                (coh)
• David Jones           (djs)
• Fortescue Metals    (fmg)
• Harvey Norman      (hvn)
• Telstra                  (tls)
• Woolworths          (wow)

Check out the report here, and as always good luck!

If you haven’t heard of Residex before it’s about time you did.
Residex sell reports on predicted housing capital growth by area. You can get a report on the whole state or report on a single suburb or postcode.

They have a good newsletter that is worth signing up for to with sneak peeks at reports and overall market reports.
In this weeks newsletter included was one page from their “Market as a Whole” report. It is quite an informative page and includes comments on:

• The difference between The Australian housing market and the US & UK markets
• Population growth
• Demographic Change
• Housing Affordability
• Residex’s View on the current shape of things

You can view this full page preview here.

If you want to check out Residex’s very informative site, purchase a report on a certain area or sign up to the newsletter you can do that from here.

The Aussie dollar today went past .95c US to make a 24 year high. Unfortunately it got that high due to high inflation figures that were released today signaling a likely increase in interest rates in May. Looking at the Aussie $ vs US $ chart once it continues its way through .95 cents the next stop is parity. The Aussie dollar was also stronger against the yen.

Paul Nojin from Invest4Profit.com.au sent out a message today to subscribers concerning Qantas shares. Here’s what he says:
He suspects that Qantas (ASX stock code QAN) is a great buy near $3.28. Based on $3.28 and annual profit of $1b the P/E ratio is below 6. Plus, near $3.28, the dividend is 9.7%! In other words, near $3.28 QAN looks cheap. I do not guarantee it, but in all likelihood, $3.28 will hold. In that light, near $3.28 QAN is superb buying, assuming you wish to own QAN stock.
Qantas definetly sounds like one to keep an eye on.

In other news today I read about China only having 12 days worth of Coal left. Considering that 70% of China’s power comes from its polluting coal power plants, it sounds like they will be buying up a storm in the near future to get their supplies back up.
Fat Prophets have also been sending out emails for the last couple of weeks talking up coal stocks and one of their picks that has gone up 67% recently. Seems like a boom sector at the moment and one to look into.

Good luck with your investing.

Are you interested in currency trading? Then this is your opportunity to learn for free using a practice account and also score your self a free book.

Forex.com are offering the free “Currency trading for dummies” book with every new practice account set up until the end of April.

You can sign up here.   Remember its risk free and no obligation.

In this free report the Alert Trader guys cover the ASX 200, the S & P 500 and plenty of Aussie stocks.

Included in the report are plenty of short term buys and also their longer term view on how far the Aussie market will fall in the coming months.

Check it out here.

Has America’s financial system just been repeating mistakes from 3 generations ago?

Having slowly broken free of the regulations put in place to stop such a banking crisis again it seems that yes, we are in repeat.

The next few years will be very interesting - check out the full article here.

I’ve found a great article that talks about the decline of the largest income bracket age group in America and its effects on GDP and the stock markets.

The article uses Japan as a historic reference and then goes though the same charts with the current American situation.

A very interesting read that can give you a big picture on where markets are heading in the coming years.

Check it out 

As the panicky markets around the world have sold off over the last few days / weeks several analysts are looking for a short term bounce in the markets. This can be a great opportunity to make some money on some stocks that have just been sold down because everything is getting sold.
Today will be a telling day as Tolly from Alert Trader using his methods predicted yesterday (22nd Jan 08) as an Intermediate low for the Australian Market. He also believes the mining sector has just about finished its run down for the moment almost testing its support level. Tolly says that “More aggressive traders out there might be very much inclined to put the toe in the water (so to speak), preferably (obviously) with 1 or 2 better quality mining stocks.”

To back this up Paul Nojin from Invest4Profit sent out a message today saying that  “bargains have begun to appear”  and “I have NOT made a new stock recommendation since the 3rd quarter of last year, but I will be in the next fortnight, or sooner. It will depend on how far it falls. I’m particularly focused on stocks in the commodities sector.”
He then goes on to talk about BHP. “First and foremost I want to have BHP back on my list of buys. I expect I will be notifying clients in the next 24 hours when to buy. BHP is going to fall further yet… but the bottom is within sight.
It will not go below $29″.

So there you have a couple of pros view on the current situation and maybe a stock to follow up on.
Please remember that the above is for educational purposes only and not professional advice. You should seek professional advice before making any trading decisions.

The markets may recover for a while but I still believe longer term that more downside is likely, so pick your stocks well and good luck with your trading / investing.