Category: Finance
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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!
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?
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
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 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
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…
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Uranium pullback provides opportunity to buy the dip! Searchlight Resources (SCLT.V), Fortune Bay (FOR.V) and enCore Energy (EU.V).
Long term. You have probably heard or read those two words more times than you can remember in the past few days. Stock markets are selling off hard, bond yields are spiking, the US Dollar is rallying, and the financial world awaits the Federal Reserve rate decision. A lot of volatility and a lot of…
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Stock markets are scary, but this market truly is frightening!
Stock markets are looking scary, but the debt markets are truly worrying. Before we get to the instability in debt, and what that means, let’s breakdown what is affecting markets. Not a surprise that inflation numbers came out higher than expected. Peak inflation narrative is quickly becoming the new transitory inflation. You will hear this…
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TBT: Market Crashes and Lindsay Lohan
Every other day it seems I’m confronted with throwback pictures of Lindsay Lohan on my Instagram Explore feed. Whether she’s sandwiched between Paris Hilton and Britney Spears on a night out, passed out drunk in a car or posing sexily with kitchen knives in a racy DIY photo shoot, the accounts updating me on Lohan’s party girl past are usually…