Common Misconceptions About Dividend Investing
Ivanna Hampton: Welcome to Investing Insights. I’m your host, Ivanna Hampton. Does dividend investing create bad investor behavior? This strategy can split investors into two camps, those in favor and those against. Here’s how it works. A company will pay out part of its earnings to stock owners, typically quarterly. Those dividends can arrive as […]
NEO Battery Materials Thrives Amid Consortium Partnership in South Korea
NEO Battery Materials soars on consortium partnership in South Korea In a substantial move towards enhancing lithium-ion battery technology, the South Korean government is poised to invest C$20 million over the next five years. This investment aims to catalyze the development of high-performance silicon anode materials, innovatively sourced from recycled silicon scrap generated during semiconductor […]
Q3 2024 Fundamentals of Gold Mining Companies
Gold-stock tiers are defined by miners’ annual production rates in ounces of gold. Small juniors have little sub-300k outputs, medium mid-tiers run 300k to 1,000k, large majors yield over 1,000k, and huge super-majors operate at vast scales exceeding 2,000k. Translated into quarterly terms, these thresholds shake out under 75k, 75k to 250k, 250k+, and 500k+. […]
The Election: Another Challenge for US Clean Energy
Clean energy exchange-traded funds are down (some by double digits) since the election of Donald Trump and the Republican sweep of Congress, as the industry faces a likely reversal of supportive government policies. The largest clean energy ETF, the $1.7 billion iShares Global Clean Energy ETF ICLN, has lost 11% since Election Day, while the […]
Trump’s Victory Fuels Major Gains in Bitcoin ETFs and an…
Bitcoin has been ripping to record highs, riding the euphoria surrounding Donald Trump’s reelection as US president. This rally has delivered an immediate and substantial boost to Canadian bitcoin ETFs, driving both performance and inflows as investors flock to these funds to capitalize on the sharp rise in the flagship cryptocurrency’s prices. However, market analysts […]
Analysts Reassess Expected Rate Cut from Bank of Canada
Canada’s annual inflation rate climbed to 2.0% in October, up from 1.6% in September, prompting economists to scale back expectations for another half-point interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada. While higher than analysts’ estimate of a 1.9% rise, the latest inflation numbers are in line with the Bank of Canada’s target. The uptick […]
UK Oil & Gas Stocks Decline Following Equity Raise Announcement
UK Oil & Gas shares fall on news of equity raise About Jamie Ashcroft Jamie Ashcroft, the News Editor for Proactive UK, has developed an impressive career in financial journalism, focusing on the small-cap sector for over fourteen years. Before joining the Proactive team, he was a stockbroker during the global financial crisis, a role […]
Is the Small-Cap Stock ‘Trump Bump’ Here to Stay?
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election sparked another record-breaking rally in the stock market, and smaller-capitalization stocks led the charge. The Morningstar US Small Cap Index returned 6.7% last week—its best weekly performance so far this year—while the broader market returned a little less than 5% and large-company stocks—which have been leading the […]
Wall Street Anticipates a ‘Normal’ Year for Stocks in 2025 Following Historic Rally
Wall Street forecasts ‘normal’ year for stocks in 2025 after historic rally After two years of annual gains north of 20% for the S&P 500 (^GSPC), Wall Street strategists think 2025 will see a more measured year for stocks. On Monday, BMO Capital Markets chief investment strategist Brian Belski initiated a 2025 year-end target of […]
Gold Prices Climb 2% After Goldman Sachs Reaffirms $3,000 Forecast
Bullion posted its steepest weekly drop in more than three years last week as Trump’s proposed tariffs are seen as potential drivers of inflation, which could prompt the Fed to slow its rate-cutting pace. Given the potential for his policies to be inflationary, about half of swaps traders expect there will probably be a Fed […]