Category Archive: Finance
Given The Bitcoin Price, Are Cryptocurrencies The New Safe-Haven Investment?
Beware of Bitcoin as a Safe-Haven Investment The stock markets are heading for a major shock. Safe-haven investments like gold and silver are going to become popular again. But there’s an all-too-modern obstacle in their way that could attract some of the funds flowing away from Wall Street: cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin in particular. How else can we […]
How Could The Rise In Electric Vehicles Change Consumer Habits?
The automotive market is currently undergoing and adapting to some of the biggest changes it will have ever experienced, as more and more electric vehicles (EVs) are introduced. With the UK government’s plan to ban the sale of all new petrol and diesel carts from 2040 onwards, manufacturers are increasing their output of EVs to […]
Italexit? Perhaps… But Both Italy And The Euro Are Unmanageable
After Brexit, after Donald Trump, Italy is next in resisting a less and less dominant “single thought”. The only thing missing is the surprise effect because polls, this time, were accurate, but the foreign media is assessing this event by largely using the term “Italexit”. The right-wing coalition of Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia obtained 37% […]
Should You Invest In Physical Gold Or An ETF?
Should you be buying physical gold, or an ETF that tracks gold? Gold is an investment that everyone should have some exposure two. The basic idea here is that holding an ETF enables one to get exposure to the price of gold without having to possess physical bullion and is considered more useful for trading […]
E International Women’s Day
It’s International Women’s Day. My avatar and birthday-sharer Aung San Suu Kyi has disgraced her sex by backing her fellow Burmese in their genocidal attacks on members of the Rohingya Muslim minority. She has just been stripped of her US Holocaust Museum human rights award, named after Eli Wiesel, for her recent support of a pogrom. However, she […]
China’s Consumption Growth
I recently read a reporter’s coverage of Foxconn and thought the major financial press might want to consider also covering the much bigger picture, which is a movement that one sees only once in a lifetime…..and in this case that movement is a quiet and under the radar trend of Chinese companies moving their senior […]
A Closer Look At Yesterday’s ADP Employment Report
In yesterday’s ADP employment report we got the February estimate of 235K new nonfarm private employment jobs from ADP, a decrease over January’s revised 244K. The popular spin on this indicator is as a preview to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the ADP report includes a wealth of information that’s worth exploring […]
5 Canadian Cannabis Updates That Impacted Shares
TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. The Canadian cannabis sector recently came off its highs and investors are closely monitoring the recent pullback. Prior to this weakness, Canadian cannabis stocks were in rally mode and we remain bullish on […]
Humana, WellCare Dip After Cigna Agrees To Buy Express Scripts
Shares of Humana (HUM) and WellCare (WCG) are under pressure today after Cigna (CI) announced that it has agreed to acquire Express Scripts (ESRX) in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $67B. Commenting on the news, Piper Jaffray argued that the deal makes it less likely in the near-term that Cigna would buy […]
Stock Market Crash: 3 Things To Know In Case There’s A Sell-Off Ahead
Price Action Suggests Stock Market Crash Could Be Likely Over the past few weeks, key stock indices have been wild, to say the least. With this, there are a lot of questions regarding the future direction of the stock market. Investors are wondering if a stock market crash could become reality. Why could there be a stock market […]
