Category: Finance
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![Deciphering Cryptocurrency: surviving the winter]()
Deciphering Cryptocurrency: surviving the winter
There is lots of speculation about why Bitcoin is up this week ranging from an insecure reaction to Trump’s trade war with China, to new big names now accepting cryptocurrency. It’s too early to tell if this is the end of the crypto-winter or whether we’ll look back on this week as a type of…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: From Monday to Thursday this week, stock markets in China got hammered as the pending trade deal between the U.S. and China fell apart. On Friday the Shanghai Composite gained 3.1% and the smaller cap Shenzhen Composite rose 3.8% – erasing most of the week’s losses. There are rumours the Chinese government ordered market-makers…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: From Monday to Thursday this week, stock markets in China got hammered as the pending trade deal between the U.S. and China fell apart. On Friday the Shanghai Composite gained 3.1% and the smaller cap Shenzhen Composite rose 3.8% – erasing most of the week’s losses. There are rumours the Chinese government ordered market-makers…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: This week, Chinese stocks plummeted 5.7% after the Chinese government hinted that it would stop stimulating the economy. On Friday, the Shanghai Composite index fell an additional 1.2% to 3,086, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell 0.2% to 22,258 and South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.5% to 2,179. Chinese sovereign bonds – issued by the local…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: This week, Chinese stocks plummeted 5.7% after the Chinese government hinted that it would stop stimulating the economy. On Friday, the Shanghai Composite index fell an additional 1.2% to 3,086, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell 0.2% to 22,258 and South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.5% to 2,179. Chinese sovereign bonds – issued by the local…
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Why did this American legend just short Canadian banks?
Every investor is in the prediction business. We buy a stock because we believe we can sell it at a higher price in the future. We “short” a stock because we believe we can buy it at a lower price in the future. Making stock market predictions is like trying to guess the vocation of…
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Mining for minors: Time for resource companies to figure out the money is in millennials
In 2015, when we started this outfit, our business model was to steer clear of conventional wisdom and the same old pubco marketing techniques, and instead focus on rich niches. Honest coverage of client companies that is negative when justified was one niche. Being inclusive of women was another. And appealing to a younger investor…
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![Extraordinary Future investor conference: Get your ass off the couch, Sparky]()
Extraordinary Future investor conference: Get your ass off the couch, Sparky
Investors like to complain. “This company sucks, they never talk to investors.” “Insiders know about early financings and we’re always left out.” “Does anybody know about this company? All I can find is the investor deck..” Well, obviously nobody talks to you about their deals, their financings, their news, because you’re sitting at home reading…
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Blockchain Foundry (BCFN.C): Sector be damned, work still needs to get done
If I walked into the Cactus Club on Burrard Street with two supermodels on my arm and an eight ball in my pocket and $5k sticking out of my mouth, and told the assembled Howe St crowd ‘this can all be yours, all you have to do is listen to me talk for five minutes…
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Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY.V) debuts on market, early investors willingly hooped
Pity the 346 investors who saw former Goldman Sachs (GS:NYSE) macro trader Michael Novogratz launching his ‘crypto merchant bank’ Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY.V) in November of last year and couldn’t wait to get into his pre-TSX listing $304m financing announced in January. Pity the GMP Securities clients who were sold into that financing, buying into 60.9m…
