7 Growth Stocks Rated F to Steer Clear of in August 2024
What do you call a growth stock that isn’t growing any more? The answers are many. You can call it a disappointment. A drain on your portfolio. A bad investment. Any of these are true of F-rated growth stocks, as evaluated by the Portfolio Grader. And in today’s market, you can ill-afford to a bad […]
Gold Investors Benefit from Rate Cuts: Gains from ETFs and Increased Demand for Haven Assets
“We still likely have upside, as the dollar continues to weaken, interest rates are coming down and then there’s a healthy dose of geopolitical uncertainty that makes gold an attractive option for investors,” said Miskin, who is co-chief investment strategist at the fund. Robert Crayfourd, who co-manages the CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income fund […]
Gold Loses Luster Following Fed Announcement – MINING.COM
That made for a serious 2.0% intraday drop post-Fed, leaving gold down 0.5% to $2,555 by the close! That reaction looked stunning and anomalous to many traders given the super-dovishness spewed by the FOMC. Its first rate cut in 4.5 years was a crisis-level 50bp instead of the usual 25bp. Just hours earlier, a Bloomberg […]
7 Top Performing Stocks Priced Under $10 Likely to Benefit from Rate Cuts
To understand the allure of buying the best stocks under $10, it’s a good idea to go back to basics. A stock’s price reflects how much you pay for one dollar of a company’s earnings. So, investors will generally want to pay as little as they can today. The benefit is two-fold. First, they can […]
The Implications of the Recent Mortgage Amortization Rule on…
In a landmark decision, the Liberal government introduced new mortgage rules allowing Canadians to pay off their mortgage over 30 years, up from the previous bar of 25 years. Under the new rule, which comes into effect on Dec. 15, 2024, first-time homebuyers and buyers of newly built homes can now stretch their amortization period—the […]
Alaska Energy Metals – Now One of The Largest US Nickel Deposits!
One of The Largest US Nickel Deposits! Sponsored by Alaska Energy Metals Corp Alaska Energy Metals trading on the TSX-V-AEMC and the OTCQB-AKEMF has just released a substantially increased updated mineral resource estimate (MRE) on their Nikolai project in central Alaska. The market was generally expecting a double or triple of the existing maiden resource of ~1.5 billion pounds of […]
The Federal Reserve’s Upcoming Moves – Chris Temple
Good evening Investors! Just following the late August Kansas City Fed-hosted annual summer picnic in Jackson, Wyoming, I recapped Fed Chair “Joliet Jake” Powell’s evolving messaging and what it portends with The Prospector News’ Michael Fox. In THAT DISCUSSION, I pointed out (among numerous other things) that the central bank will increasingly be deflecting blame […]
Beyond the U.S. Election: Navigating Stagflation, Commodity Trends, China, and Beyond
Looking Past the U.S. Election: Continuing Stagflation…Commodities…China…and More Today, we mark summer’s unofficial end. I guess I am getting older, as this one flew by faster than any summer of my life! We’ll be up north a bit longer still, but looking past that, I’ll be weaving my way back home by mid-month (with possibly […]
Expect More Market Whiplash in the Near Future
Markets will give us more Whiplash near-term Greetings investors! The seemingly unstoppable rally on Wall Street (thin though it’s been for most of its run, as I have been discussing) has been fed by ever-growing inflows into large-cap and Mag 7-related funds especially. I’m going to help you prefer for the following market whiplash. The […]
Electrovaya’s High Voltage Battery System Passes Fire Propagation Testing
Electrovaya Inc. has successfully demonstrated its Infinity Technology’s effectiveness in preventing thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries. The company completed fire propagation tests on two high voltage battery systems, each exceeding 50kWh, in adherence to UL2580 standards. In these tests, induced thermal runaway in a single cell did not lead to fire spread, showcasing enhanced safety […]