By SIMON CONSTABLE
It's time to buy stock in Ford Motor F .
That’s the verdict of Adam Johnson, author of the Bullseye Brief financial newsletter.
“My target of $23 would represent a doubling from current prices and is quite achievable,” he writes in a recent edition of the report. The stock recently fetched $11.35. Read more here.
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What happens in the U.S. financial system doesn't stay there.
Tough financial conditions tend to roll over into the global economy and disrupt Wall Street's mergers and acquisitions dealmaking machine, new research shows. And it could likely hit the big investment banks hard. Read more here.
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It should be clear that we are in a bull market. At least, that's what one market expert says.
"In bull markets historically, there's less of a need, or no need at all, for the safest stocks," writes technical analyst JC Parets in a recent report from his company AllStarCharts. Technical analysts forecast stock movements by looking at charts, amongst other things. Read more here.
Arturo Di Modica and his Charging Bull sculpture
which he dropped with no prior permission during the night
in 1989 in between the police patrols on Wall St
Artislife1406, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Israel fared well in the report with a ranking of 145 among the nearly 160 countries ranked. Read more here.
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Could it be the Federal Reserve has just won the war on inflation? Its hard to be certain, but the data sure look promising.
The question is does the Fed see what others see? Probably not. Read more here.
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On Tuesday May 9, I was a guest on BBC Radio 5 Live to explain why I think sanctions on Russia have been a failure.
My bit starts at approximately 1:49.00 on the tape -- Listen here.
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There’s inflation, and then there’s big, elevated, inflation, humongous out-of-control inflation.
And depending on which type you are fighting the impact on the economy will be different, new research shows. In America, the cost could be brutal. Read more here.
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The gruesome civil war in Sudan might seem like a problem far from home, given the tiny size of the economy and its relative strategic importance.
However, the ongoing calamity, which shows few signs of abating, will, in all likelihood, impact the supply or prices of candy. Read more here.
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The price of oil is telling us something worrying about the global economy.
Despite recently announced production cuts by OPEC+ (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plus Russia), Brent crude oil prices continue to decline. Read more here.
In a recent interview with the Financial Post, Ontario Teachers' CEO Jo Taylor sat down with journalist Barbara Shecter to discuss Ontario Teachers' investment strategy and how the organization is finding opportunities in a challenging environment.
The article touches upon some of the issues affecting investors since early 2020, including the pandemic, economic turbulence and the Ukraine-Russia war. Despite these conditions, Ontario Teachers' continues to generate positive returns for its members. Last year while stocks and bonds fell in most markets, Ontario Teachers' had a one-year net return of 4%, almost double its 2.3% benchmark return. Its assets grew to $247.2 billion, edging closer to the goal of $300 billion in net assets by 2030. Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
Britain’s bureaucrats have done it again. They’ve helped snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
The decision by Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to quash Microsoft Inc’s planned takeover of video game maker Activision Blizzard
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Silver is headed to record levels within the next 36 months or so, according to a veteran commodities analyst. But when it happens, don’t expect shocking newspaper headlines. Read more here.
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Traders of stock index futures are now the most bearish on record. Its likely a good time to buy equities.
We know this because there are now more bearish bets by speculators on the S&P 500 E mini futures contracts than at any time since it began trading in 1998. That’s a quarter of a century ago. Read more here.
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The recent bank run and then failure of Silicon Valley Bank kicked off a mini crisis that’s already being made worse by the government.And it could even morph into a far worse downward spiral if Federal regulators don’t back off, according to a recent report.
“More penetrating government control of the banking industry will not change human nature,” states the research note from financial analytics company HCWE & Co. “What it will do is to degrade the economy by increasing the cost of banking.” Read more here.
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Some analysts are predicting positive returns for junk bonds this year after a dismal performance in 2022. Read more here.
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The past six months or so have been rough for buyers of stock options. While the market has been volatile, it made no sustained move up or down, which is an especially tricky scenario for novice options buyers. Read more here.
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Jamie Dimon, possibly the world’s most influential banker, has proposed that the banking system needs better regulations. Based on what he wrote in his annual letter to shareholders its likely he and his bank, JPMorgan Chase, cannot lose. Read more here.
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It’s with great sadness that I learned Tuesday morning that Nigel Lawson died Monday. He was the force of nature that helped unleash the country’s latent capitalist instincts during the 1980s after decades of a post-WWII flirtation with socialism. The latter was an economic disaster. Read more here.
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Gold prices took a tumble in February after investors pulled almost $2 billion from bullion-backed exchange-traded funds, new research shows.
Still, the recent tension in the banking system has helped steady the market for the yellow metal. Read more here.
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After more than nine months of waiting, the much-heralded U.S. recession may actually happen. Still, it's not guaranteed. Read more here.
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Expectations of an unusually hot and dry summer, combined with the impact of the war in Ukraine, will likely send wheat prices surging by around 20% from current levels as early as April, experts say.
“Drought will return and hurt spring wheat, not only in the U.S. but other places,” says Shawn Hackett, president of Hackett Financial Advisors, in Boca Raton. That, in turn, could lift prices. Read more here.
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Since the launch of the first US ETF three decades ago, index-tracking funds have been the mainstay of the ETF world. And while active funds have been ‘stuck in neutral’ the past while, they are now on course to make a booming comeback, experts say.
‘For a long time, active funds were stuck in neutral,’ says Aniket Ullal, head of ETF data and analytics at New York-based research company CFRA. ‘[But] there is now a focus on active – and yes, it’s a long-term thing.’ Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
A college degree and drowning in debt don’t have to be synonymous.
College tuition in the European Union tends to be far less than in the U.S., not only for locals but for students who come from outside the EU as well. Indeed, both undergrad and graduate-school degrees in Europe often can be earned at a fraction of what it costs in the U.S. Read more here.
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