Tag: columns
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Making sense of the markets this week: September 20, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. New inflation data: transitory signs? The week ending Sept. 17 delivered a very generous data dump in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, with updates on inflation data, economic activity numbers, housing figures and more. Portfolio managers, professional…
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Making sense of the markets this week: August 9, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. The inside story on earnings and revenue for S&P 500’s Big 6 In terms of valuation, the largest companies on the S&P 500 are Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Facebook and Tesla. These are the behemoths that…
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Making sense of the markets this week: May 24, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts stocks fiscal headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. Stocks may collapse when the Fed struggles inflation How can the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks fight inflation? By raising prices. And the fear is that inflation-fighting in 2021 will kill stocks. Let’s back up…
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Making sense of the markets this week: May 3, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. The energy reality, the energy divide There’s nothing like the topic of investing in Canadian energy producers to get a gusher of emotions and opinions. No stranger to this space, Eric Nutall of Ninepoint Partners offered up…
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Making sense of the markets this week: April 12, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. How (much) retail investors took over the markets It has been a common theme in the pandemic: Bored and flush with cash, retail investors and many freshly-minted newbies became a market force to be reckoned with. Michael…
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Making sense of the markets this week: April 4, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares fiscal headlines and provides context for Canadian traders. Serious concerns over the Canadian housing bubble BMO has sounded the alert with powerful warnings about what many are predicting a housing bubble in Canada. In reality, it’s about fire. In a Yahoo! Finance post… “One of…
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Making sense of the markets this week: February 15, 2021
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. Elon Musk sends bitcoin to the moon—or is that Mars? Elon Musk the (never know what’s he’s going to do or say next) CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla (TSLA) announced that Tesla has invested US$1.5 billion…
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Making sense of the markets this week: December 7
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts stocks fiscal headlines and provides context for Canadian traders. Canadians with smaller portfolios will be the target for deferred service charge (DSC) mutual funds There was some great news and bad news in this post on Advisor’s Edge. The great news is that those horrible deferred…