Oversold Stocks Welcome to the year of the Rabbit. Peace, patience and prosperity lie ahead in 2023 following turmoil and toil last year. Many stocks were hammered in 2022, but these oversold stocks are starting to turn around now. What […]
Oversold Stocks Welcome to the year of the Rabbit. Peace, patience and prosperity lie ahead in 2023 following turmoil and toil last year. Many stocks were hammered in 2022, but these oversold stocks are starting to turn around now. What […]
Dividend stocks can be a great addition to any investment portfolio as they provide a steady stream of income, regardless of the overall performance of the stock market. In Canada, there are many companies that pay dividends and have a […]
Real estate, health and the TSX are on this week’s menu as we favour defensive stocks, but those that can see a rebound, and bank on the Canadian index. So far, 2023 has been positive as inflation eases and China […]
While all the focus has been on central banks, particularly the U.S. Fed, another market factor has emerged, which is China’s reopening and its impact on reopening stocks. Beijing has suddenly abandoned its zero-Covid policy in reaction to popular unrest […]
The year begins on a tone of realistic expectations, that the economies of the world will slow, that a recession is likely, though perhaps short and shallow, that markets will be rough, if not sideways, until the U.S. Fed pauses […]
The theme for this last article of 2022 is safety. Energy may offer higher returns in 2023, but energy is risky because it’s tied to the unpredictable price of crude oil. In contrast, health care is safe, perhaps the safest […]
Upgraded Stocks Sometimes the street gets it right. True, herd mentality is a hazard and upgraded stocks don’t always pan-out. Investors pile into a stock when analysts switch their signals to green and hike price targets only to see that […]
It’s the end of 2022 and the street is obsessing over a recession next year and people are searching for stable stocks to weather the storm. A recession isn’t guaranteed, but signs point to a slowdown after this year’s interest […]
This week we look at gambling stocks (“gaming” is videogames) and something super-safe: storage. Roll the dice with something risky that can pay off well, or hedge your bets on a stock that has fallen out of favour this year, […]
This week consider the macro environment and offer two buys and an avoid. These are long-term buys, one highly defensive, the another a grow-by-acquisition name. The third is a red light–don’t buy. Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD-T) ATD is well-known to Canadian […]
Market news coming out of the States in the past week has made it impossible to ignore two of the following momentum stocks. Consider the third an island of stability if you can’t stomach the other two names. Meanwhile, remember […]
This week presents a mixed bag of oversold stocks, ranging from fast food to (egads) tech. Headwinds remain, of course, inflation which drives up material and labour costs for stocks, but the good news is that inflation is easing, which […]
Recession or not, infrastructure spending by governments will continue. Many of these infrastructure stocks boast robust dividends, while others focus on growing sectors, in particular renewables which the Biden government gave a serious boost over the late summer with a […]
After last week’s Halloween horror show called megatech earnings (i.e. Amazon, Meta et al), investors are looking for something different. Some safe stocks. That refuge is defensive stocks: predictable, boring and safe stocks that pay limited but predictable returns in a […]
With tech stocks being hammered in 2022, there are indications (or gut instincts) that they have been oversold. Name any FAANG that hasn’t plunged by half (okay, Apple). Earnings season has just kicked off IN the U.S. and some megacaps […]
The fast food stocks beat earnings last week, proving that people love their junk food despite 40-year high inflation—or maybe because of that. Regardless, junk food is cheap, familiar and offers comfort. (We’ll turn a blind eye to nutrition in […]
If market swoons are making you sick, consider some of these cannabis stocks for medicine. We’re talking investing, of course, though cannabis’ many applications include several medical treatments for anxiety and chemotherapy. That said, cannabis stocks have been left for […]
This week we offer a mixed bag of defensive stocks in American healthcare, semiconductors and transports. Some of these pay a higher dividend than others, one is a buy on dips, while all are long-term buys. Eli Lilly & Co. […]
It’s that time of year when markets bottom and 2022 is no exception which means there are stocks on sale. The end of September is testing the lows of mid-June and pessimism abounds. According to Warren Buffett’s commandment of buying […]
Index Investing Last week, the Bank of America Equity Securities department predicted that U.S. inflation to stay above 4-5% for a while longer, for yields to climb to 4-5% and for American unemployment to rise to 4-5% but will take […]
Technology Stocks Big technology stocks have been left for dead in 2022, with the bellweather QQQ tech ETF sliding from $401 to $309 year-to-date and losing nearly a quarter of its share value. The market has no appetite for risk […]
REIT Stocks For the first time since March 2020, all university and college campuses are welcoming back students. No more Zoom’ing. Students will be in seats inside classrooms. Beyond that, students need places to live, so they’re filling apartments and […]
At a barbecue recently, a guest asked me if healthcare ETFs were “any good”? I answered, “Yes, if you’re talking about U.S. Healthcare. These companies benefit from an aging (Boomer) population that will need more medications and surgeries. Also, they […]
With volatility not going away, investors need to find long-term stocks. That could be Star Wars memorabilia or the following stocks which operate in banking, tech and aviation. Fears of a recession and a real estate slowdown have hammered the […]
Data reflecting China’s weakening economy on Monday this week added to the woes of crude oil. China’s numbers were surprising, but the recent performance of crude oil is not. Commodities are notorious for price fluctuations, and as the law of […]