Category: Finance
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![The European Central Bank is back to positive rates!]()
The European Central Bank is back to positive rates!
As we continue the month of central banks, we have seen Australia and Canada raise interest rates, and now Europe joins the party. The European Central Bank (ECB) announced a 75 basis point interest rate hike, taking its benchmark deposit rate to 0.75%. This 75 basis point hike was already priced in as the markets…
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![Bank of Canada raises interest rates by 0.75 percent]()
Bank of Canada raises interest rates by 0.75 percent
The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate by 0.75 percent (three quarters of a percentage point) bringing the central bank’s key rate to 3.25%. This rate hike matches up with market and economist expectations. No surprise. Since March 2022, the Bank of Canada has increased rates by 300 basis points, the fastest pace…
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![Pivotal central bank week ahead!]()
Pivotal central bank week ahead!
We are now in September which is historically the worst month for stock markets. Markets are currently mixed: The Dow Jones and the S&P 500 have turned positive at time of writing and the Nasdaq is looking to join in. However, the downwards trend still remains strong. This week kicks off what is going to…
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![NioCorp (NB.T) is developing the next niobium mine as US-China relations deteriorate!]()
NioCorp (NB.T) is developing the next niobium mine as US-China relations deteriorate!
If you want to invest in something with a bold geopolitical flavor, then rare earth minerals are the investment for you. When the China trade war headlines were all the markets were talking about way back when, rare earth minerals were always in articles titled something along the lines of, “Possible China trade war weapons”.…
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![Copper investing for millennials]()
Copper investing for millennials
Why copper and why now? My readers know me as the commodity guy. My love for precious metals is not a secret. Just check out my gold vault on our Youtube shows. I can talk about gold and silver for hours. But let it be known from this day forward that I, Vishal Toora, am…
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![Buy a piece of a UK football team – like we did!]()
Buy a piece of a UK football team – like we did!
Regular readers will know we got a little bored during covid last year and decided, what the hell, maybe if we called up a bunch of UK football teams, one of them would let us buy in. Profit motive wasn’t really the thing, more a chance to get on a board and have some fun…
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![The Fed raises rates by 75 basis points for the second consecutive time. What does this mean for stock markets?]()
The Fed raises rates by 75 basis points for the second consecutive time. What does this mean for stock markets?
In one word: bullish. The stock markets are loving the hawkish Fed. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the second consecutive time. The stock markets largely had this rate hike priced in. Fed futures had a near 100% probability of a 75 basis point hike and the Fed tends…
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![How to invest when you don’t know what to do]()
How to invest when you don’t know what to do
Inflation. Deflation. Stagflation. Markets going down week after week, only to rip up higher. Headlines don’t seem to line up and so-called experts, who claim to have seen it all before, have as many different views as there are Elon Musk lawsuits. When there are too many signals and the immediate road ahead isn’t clear,…
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![Have US stock markets established their bear market lows?]()
Have US stock markets established their bear market lows?
Have US stock markets bottomed? From a technical analysis perspective: yes, there is a very good chance they have. From a fundamental perspective: it gets complicated. If we consider fundamentals, there is a lot which can weigh in on markets. Some things to consider are: Earnings, China, Russia, Inflation, Interest Rates, Supply Chain Issues, European…
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![There could be more pain before the market actually turns]()
There could be more pain before the market actually turns
Newsfeeds are clogged with “the bottom’s here!” narrative and we’re already seeing a significant bump in positivity in the public markets including risk-on assets like cryptocurrency, but are we out of the woods? This stream of social media ‘good news’ and bullish fervor comes as the yield curve inversion is in full swing. It might…
