Weekly Top Ten News Stories – 14 February 2020

The global manufacturing industry stands on the brink of disruption as a perfect storm of digitisation, AI, robotics, and big data transforms industry. Add circularity and ESG to the mix, and it promises to be a wild ride.

Ahead of the Herd's Rick Mills questions whether there is enough lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper in the world to fulfill forecast EV demand growth.

Lack of demand continues to drag on uranium prices despite ongoing production curtailments, yet nuclear energy remains a matter of cost.

Dear time-poor reader: profit warnings fill the pre-results season while T Rowe Price is comfortable with valuations of equities In this week's Weekly Insights (published in Two Parts): -February Reports: Global Uncertainties, Profit

Early indications are investors are willing to adopt an optimistic view this reporting season

Weekly Broker Wrap: housing/building materials; Reserve Bank outlook; consumers; banks; gold; and chemicals.

Michael Gable of Fairmont Equities notes WiseTech Global has consolidated its losses and now appears to be breaking to the upside.

Weekly update on stockbroker recommendation, target price, and earnings forecast changes.

Extra Edition of the Broker Call Report

Dear time-poor reader: a line up of stockbrokers' favourites ahead of February reports, amidst scepticism and warningsIn this week's Weekly Insights:-February Reports: Equity Favourites And Warnings-Four Tips For Reporting Season-The G