Author: Staff
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FansUnite: Strategizing Success in a Competitive Market
FansUnite Entertainment Inc. (TSX: FANS) (OTCQB: FUNFF), a player in the sports betting and entertainment industry, has made a transformative shift in business. The company first found public market interest during the initial craze of esports and online sports betting. All you had to do was hang a sign with some blue sky promises and…
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Japan’s Nikkei near 20 month highs, closes above 30,000
While US stock markets, European stock markets, and many other Asian stock markets continue to chop around and range, one market in Asia is on a tear. Japan is drawing in investor money and it really all began with the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. I recently gave my thoughts and technical levels on Japan…
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Home Depot posts worst revenue miss in 20 years, signs of recession?
Home Depot (HD) reported fiscal first quarter 2023 earnings which mostly missed estimates and has raised concerns that the consumer is being tapped out. Put it another way in our consumer based economy, are signs of an economic slowdown or recession increasing? This has been on the mind of investors ever since the Fed has…
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Backing Frank: West High Yield Resources (WHY.V) is the legacy of a 45-year entrepreneurial career
When the phone rings and I’m writing, I’ll almost never answer it. My mother knows, and is constantly frustrated, by this. If I’m writing, researching, storytelling, conjuring humour, figuring out marketing strategies, the last thing I need is one of my sales guys using me as Google. There are two exceptions to this rule; Chinese…
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Brascan Resources (BRAS.C): A multi-sector bet with heavily undervalued ‘bananas’ potential
I like betting on rocks. Microcap mining delivers the investor the sort of high risk/high reward opportunities that, if they get just a little bit of love from the retail audience, can really deliver multiples in return for a small bet. But if there’s one thing I like when I’m gambling – and make no…
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Palantir (PLTR) stock rips over 20% on earnings and unprecedented AI demand
This year, one of the largest sector momentum trades was/is AI. The US markets saw AI stocks pop to kick off 2023. Take for example C3.ai under the ticker AI: BigBear.ai under the ticker BBAI: We saw the same pop move in Canadian AI names such as FOBI AI: Big pops at the beginning of…
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Canada’s Legal Cannabis Market: Progress, Challenges, and the Future
The legalization of the cannabis market in Canada marked a significant milestone in the country’s history. Four years after this groundbreaking event, the retail market has experienced remarkable growth, with a 122.3% annual increase in per capita stores and a 91.7% annual increase in per capita sales. There are now 3,305 cannabis stores across the…
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Fed hawkish pause, regional banks tanks, and gold nears record highs!
Well what developments in the past 24 hours. Investors and traders were anticipating the Federal Reserve meeting. A 25 basis point hike was expected along with some statement hinting at no more interest rate hikes. Well, the market got the 25 basis point hike (the Fed’s 10th rate hike in a row), and some sort…
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Uranium market revival: Have we reached a turning point in nuclear energy stocks?
If you’ve been following the uranium market and uranium juniors, you probably have less hair on your head due to pure stress or simply pulling it out with your bare hands. It hasn’t been easy. First, the commodity traded sideways for what seemed to be an eternity, not being able to lift off from the…
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Real AI isn’t a ChatGPT app: Plurilock’s artificial intelligence used by 600 companies
Ian Patterson’s AI powered information security company, Plurilock (PLUR.V) does business with military, intelligence, government, academic, and corporate institutions, but when he shows up to a Burrard Street cafe to chat with this reporter for an hour, he doesn’t hop out of a black SUV with tinted windows, and there aren’t black-suited bodyguards surrounding him.…