Tag: etfs
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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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How to buy bitcoin in Canada (and find out where, too)
What’s the big fuss about holding bitcoin in Canada? If you’re a MoneySense reader, you already know that bitcoin is increasingly major news. The standard-bearer of cryptocurrencies (also referred to as digital or virtual currencies) has been soaring in value. Despite some pretty major fluctuations over the years, $1,000 of bitcoin purchased in 2010 (one…
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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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How to master “core and explore” investing
For investors old or young, I’ve long been responsible for taking a hybrid vehicle & ldquo;center and research ” approach. The “center ”–the so-called “severe cash ” which includes 80% to 90% of your portfolio–might be held in balanced funds or low-fee indexed alternatives, such as asset allocation ETFs in BMO, Horizons, iShares and Vanguard.…
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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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Thematic ETFs boom, drawing punters and concern
LONDON: From cat food into cannabis, it is boom time for unique ETFs offering the chance to punt on market themes in fast-growth industries, but their enormous profits are jaw-dropping a few who view them as a different price-inflated advantage that may endanger market stability.While Reddit”gamestonks” have caught recent headlines, retail investors are also credited…
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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…
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Making sense of the markets this week: September 14
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. Tesla snubbed by the S&P 500, and now it’s getting hit on all sides What a difference a week can make. In last week’s column, we discussed how Tesla’s valuation was enough to buy six major global…