Journalism’s ‘Fourth Estate’ Role Is Crumbling In The Internet Age
The telling blow is the damage wrought on local newspapers. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s embrace of Jody Wilson-Raybould while gazing into her eyes just after she was sworn in as the country’s first Indigenous attorney general in a cabinet that was notably half female epitomised the progressive image that Trudeau’s Liberal government sought to…
Silver Mining Stocks Fundamentals
The silver miners’ stocks have been pummeled in recent months, plunging near major secular lows in late May. Sentiment in this tiny sector is miserable, reflecting silver prices continuing to languish relative to gold. This has forced traditional silver miners to increasingly diversify into gold, which has far-superior economics. The major silver miners’ ongoing shift…
A Strategy For Stock Hunters
Once the decision has been made to look to stock markets as a place for investment dollars, all retail investors face the same choice – decide for yourself what individual stocks in which to invest or delegate the decision to others. The latter option does involve some research and decision making choosing exchange traded or…
Gold Miners’ First Quarter 2019 Fundamentals
The major gold miners’ stocks are drifting sideways with gold, their early-year momentum sapped by the recent stock-market euphoria. But they are more important than ever for prudently diversifying portfolios, a rare sector that surges when stock markets weaken. Their just-reported Q1’19 results reveal how gold miners are faring as a sector, and their current…
Reshuffling Lithium Supply
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Market wrap: popular stocks
Market wrap and popular stocks at close on Friday. To see the latest data, click here to go to TheBull’s data centre for individual stock data and charts. S&P 200 (Monday) Click here to go to…
Instalment Warrants
An instalment warrant is a form of derivative, one which is designed to resemble a contributing share. Typically, the underlying shares are blue chip stocks. Instalment warrants are initially issued by a third party (an institution) and not by the company which issued the underlying shares to which the warrant relates. A purchaser of such…
Monetary policy
Since monetary policy affects the rates levied on our borrowings and savings, and pretty well underpins every financial transaction we make on a daily basis, it’s worth understanding the basics. It works simply enough: just as you hold an account at a bank, every bank in turn holds an account at the RBA, technically termed…
Is this the end of Bitcoin?
By David Glance, University of Western Australia Bitcoin was dubbed the worst investment of 2014. As predicted however, 2015 has seen the continued fall in value of the currency that was supposed to fuel the digital age. In the last 10 days alone, it has lost 26% in value. Bitcoin’s decline If 2014…
4 Healthcare stocks for punters
High-minded investors and analysts bristle with indignation at the suggestion that investing in a stock is little more than gambling. The term “punting” has historically referred to activities like race track gambling; but it has entered the investing lexicon as a means of separating seemingly foolish speculation akin to gambling from “true” investing. Taking a…
