Stock analysts (bottom up) remain on crack. They almost always love their stocks and they basically get paid to tell a good story on why you should buy them. Very few are unbiased even after years of regulatory changes and the fact that they swear
This week on Berman’s Call: Leading Indicators: Credit Spreads and Bank Underperformance There is nothing more toxic to growth than too much leverage. We have said for years that the bond market is far smarter about the outlook for the economy than the stock market.
Wow! It’s the proverbial first day on the job for the new Government and they’ve spun possibly the biggest misrepresentation in budgetary history. Unfortunately most Canadians will not understand and thus won’t realize how dangerous such a distortion of the facts can be. Expressing Federal
Yet another reason why the current Liberal administration’s policies are based on scarcely more than bad math and a great head of hair. Then again, don’t blame Justin, they don’t teach the dependency ratio in school and they’re not the only government to find themselves
The financial industry has been male-dominated for a long time, but the tables have turned and women are poised to become more influential when it comes to money and financial decisions. Yet women still lose more sleep worrying about money than men, and in many
You work hard for your money, then you lose potentially more than half of it to taxes, and battle volatile markets to get it to grow. The last thing you want to do is lose it to fraud and scams. With that in mind, we’ve
Too late for this Federal budget, but something to think about when we get serious about fixing our economy in 4 years when tax and spend isn’t working: http://news.nationalpost.com/…/canada-second-only-to-france…
As we urged investors to see the opportunity in markets earlier this year, we’ve had a great bounce, but viewers ask – are we still in a bear market? In a word, yes. In a few more words: http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=828443
There have been no shortage of market pundits lately suggesting investors sell everything because the markets are going to Hades. There was one UK Bank that issued such a reckless recommendation as to sell everything at the trough of the January decline. While I’ve suggested
Trying to understand the mass psychology and behaviour of the markets can help us make better investment decisions. We have all heard of the idea of buy low sell high, but how do we figure out when to do it. Most investors tend to dislike