Can summer stocks spending save the market or will it get the summertime blues? Can the consumer, who accounts for 75% of the economy, lift bottom lines and share prices by unleashing their pent-up demand and savings accounts? Or will […]
Can summer stocks spending save the market or will it get the summertime blues? Can the consumer, who accounts for 75% of the economy, lift bottom lines and share prices by unleashing their pent-up demand and savings accounts? Or will […]
Despite worries over inflation, rising rates and the supply chain, summer promises relief in a few areas of the market. Travel is an obvious one, but the American Airlines and Marriotts of the world have already run-up. Where else to […]
Tech stocks just can’t catch a break in early 2022. Are investors throwing out the baby with the proverbial bathwater. Should they shed every tech stock? Will any of them thrive six or 12 months from now? In 2022, the […]
3 Consumer Stocks for Summer Inflation, inflation, inflation. That, Russia and rising interest rates is all investors hear nowadays. Rising rates, especially, have been hammering markets in April, but is there any hope? Consumer stocks could be a bright spot. […]
The TSX is easily outpacing the American indices on 2022 based on the rally in natural resources and resource stocks. This week we look at fertilizer and natural gas companies. (Natural gas just hit 13-year highs.) Can their rally last? […]
It seems like energy and fertilizer are the only stocks ripping higher in this volatile market, but American healthcare stocks are thriving. Merck, for example, has climbed 13% this year so far while the S&P has slid nearly 6% and […]
By now, Canadian investors have heard that sport gambling and sports gambling stocks are exploding in the U.S. as more and more states legalize it. In June 2018, gamblers wagered $310 million on all manner of sporting matches, but they […]
This week we take a pause from dividend-payers and look at some long term stocks to hold, one Canadian, two American and two tech. Yes, tech. As always, the outlook here is long term stocks. Adobe Systems (ADBE-Q) Adobe‘s recent […]
The current trading week is seeing the TSX stocks make new highs while American stocks endure volatility. Anything that comes out of the ground is rallying now: oil, natural gas, uranium, fertilizer and precious metals. Canada sells these in abundance. […]
Last week, amid updates of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and hot inflation numbers, Amazon stunned Wall Street by announcing a stock split. There had been no inkling a split was coming from one of the largest companies in the world. […]
It’s time to get back to investing basics and look at some Canadian dividend stocks. Speculative, high-PE has fallen out of fashion as interest rates start to climb. The barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrust oil stocks into the […]
An investor needs to keep their eyes focused on the horizon for the long haul. Look ahead with these Canadian stocks. That’s tough these days with central banks about to hike interest rates and autocrat Vladimir Putin deploying the Russian […]
With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine (as of this writing), it may be crazy to invest in Euro stocks. It’s certainly insane to invest in Russia, but what about France or Holland? Big tech fueled Wall Street gains in 2020, […]
As interest rates rise and stocks continue to rotate out high-growth tech into steadier dividend-payers and cyclicals, what names should an investor buy? Cyclical and value ETFs come to mind. Many analysts favour stock-picking over sector-buying, but these folks are […]
I hope this is the last time I write about reopening stocks. Maybe this time will different. The U.K. has boldly removed their restrictions, allowing Britons to go maskless in order to live with Covid. Here, Quebec and Ontario are […]