3 Top US Growth ETFs to Consider for 2025
Bryan Armour: Growth ETFs invest in stocks with high expectations of future growth. Their prices reflect that expectation, creating a higher hurdle to clear compared to more cheaply valued peers. Because of this, growth stocks tend to be more volatile. The past two years have made their upside clear, though. Since the start of 2023 […]
Three Promising Growth ETFs to Watch in 2025
Bryan Armour: Growth ETFs invest in stocks with high expectations of future growth. Their prices reflect that expectation, creating a higher hurdle to clear compared to more cheaply valued peers. Because of this, growth stocks tend to be more volatile. The past two years have made their upside clear, though. Since the start of 2023 […]
Baru Gold Shares Drop Following Breakdown of Investment Agreements – MINING.COM
The Sangihe mineral tenement consists of one block covering the southern half of Sangihe Island, located between the northern tip of Sulawesi Island (Indonesia) and southern tip of Mindanao (Philippines). Credit: Baru Gold Shares of Baru Gold (TSXV: BARU) plunged on Monday after the junior miner announced that both of its previously agreed investments would not […]
Tariffs Aren’t the Real Driver Behind US Market Trends…
Editor’s Note: This article was updated to include an additional exhibit. Tariffs sparked the current downturn, but they are not its root cause. To explain that statement, I will show an example. Since late February, technology stocks and bitcoin have declined, mostly in unison. Meanwhile, Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.B equity and intermediate-term Treasury notes have slightly […]
3 Essential Action Items for Investors in a Tariff-Driven Market
It’s been a challenging time for Canadian investors, as the trade war launched by US President Donald Trump has rocked markets. With the news out of Washington, this volatility could persist, as tariffs and other significant geopolitical swings could continue for years to come. Especially given the kind of uncertainty hitting the Canadian economy, one […]
US Federal Reserve Confronts Triple Challenges of Inflation and Economic Slowdown
As Federal Reserve officials meet this week against the backdrop of a stock market selloff, gloomy economic news, and a mounting trade war, the only clarity around the outlook for interest rates seems to be that no change is on the table this month. Beyond that, Fed officials are in a difficult position. Inflation, as […]
DoubleLine’s Gundlach Predicts Gold Prices Will Hit $4,000 Due to Central Bank Demand
Stock image. Gold added some more sparkle to the still-recovering financial markets on Friday by reaching the $3,000-an-ounce level for the first time. The die-hard bulls have long seen this coming, and some are already looking far beyond this historic milestone. One of those is DoubleLine CEO and founder Jeffrey Gundlach, who told investors during […]
Fundamentals of Gold Miners in Q4 2024
Stock image. The major gold miners are finishing reporting their best quarter ever! Lofty record gold prices combined with production growth and decent cost control to catapult unit profits to their highest levels ever witnessed. These wildly-bullish dynamics also fueled record revenues, bottom-line earnings, and operating cash flows. Gold-stock fundamentals have never been better, which […]
Top Global Stock ETFs for Investors in Canada
Investing in global stocks can provide diversification, but the wide variety of markets can make it difficult to navigate individual securities. Global stock exchange-traded funds can be an easy way to get diversified exposure to world markets. To help investors pick the right global stock ETFs, we screened for names with Morningstar Medalist Ratings of […]
Trump-Induced Instability Attracts New Investors to Gold
Investors seeking shelter from political and economic volatility triggered by the new US administration are increasingly moving into gold exchange-traded funds, adding momentum to the market’s record rally. Since US President Donald Trump took office in January, his radical policy shift, including trade tariffs, comments he aims to annex Greenland and his unconventional approach to […]