‘It’s not all doom and gloom, bear markets will end’ Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange as Christmas approaches. Photo by REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Each year, the people at Mawer Investment Management Ltd. offer their year-end perspective in the form of a poem to Financial Post readers. Advertisement 2… Continue reading ‘Twas the week before Christmas: Mawer’s 2022 in review
Noah Solomon: Investor amnesia, the inevitability of market cycles and the elusive happy medium
Objective decision-making processes based on data, math and a quantifiable logic result in superior results over the long term Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters Cycles are inevitable. They have persisted since markets have existed and will endure for as long as humans engage in the… Continue reading Noah Solomon: Investor amnesia, the inevitability of market cycles and the elusive happy medium
Metaverse storms ETF charts to become industry’s hottest concept
‘It’s the next generation internet. I would call it a master theme in the decades to come’ Author of the article: Financial Times Steve Johnson Published Dec 19, 2022 • 5 minute read Join the conversation A total of 35 metaverse-badged ETFs have launched globally since the first rolled off the conveyor belt in June… Continue reading Metaverse storms ETF charts to become industry’s hottest concept
Mortgages rates will keep falling but homes won’t become more affordable until these 3 things happen, Moody’s chief economist says
Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi said Friday that US existing home sales have bottomed out. The combination of high mortgages and expensive homes have kept buyers out of the market, but US incomes also play a role, he said. Meanwhile, mortgage rates have fallen for six consecutive weeks, the longest drop since 2008. Loading Something… Continue reading Mortgages rates will keep falling but homes won’t become more affordable until these 3 things happen, Moody’s chief economist says
Warren Buffett ‘walked in like Santa Claus’ to a friend’s dinner party, carrying huge teddy bears for her children
Warren Buffett channeled his inner Santa Claus at a friend’s dinner party. The investor arrived with toys for her children, and feasted on cookies for dessert. While the other guests ate Italian food, Buffett had a hamburger and Coke, then Oreos for dessert. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics… Continue reading Warren Buffett ‘walked in like Santa Claus’ to a friend’s dinner party, carrying huge teddy bears for her children
GOLDMAN SACHS: Buy these 50 stocks that are trading at steep discounts that make them low-risk and high-reward
Investors use the Sharpe ratio to see if they’re being rewarded for the risks they take. David Kostin at Goldman Sachs is applying a version of that concept to individual stocks. He says that approach has historically delivered excess returns without much extra risk. Investing always involves some sort of risk, so the question of… Continue reading GOLDMAN SACHS: Buy these 50 stocks that are trading at steep discounts that make them low-risk and high-reward
Investors just pulled a record $42 billion from stocks in one week in an attempt to cut their tax bill after grim 2022 losses, BofA says
Investors pulled a record $41.9 billion from equities last week to engage in tax-loss harvesting, Bank of America said Friday. Tax-loss harvesting is a strategy to lower investment taxes that involves selling securities at a loss to offset capital gains. BofA said investors in the past week also pulled out $10 billion from bonds. Loading… Continue reading Investors just pulled a record $42 billion from stocks in one week in an attempt to cut their tax bill after grim 2022 losses, BofA says
Here’s why Wall Street is warning the Fed blew it on inflation and won’t save the stock market from crashing
The Fed blew it on inflation stocks are going to have to suffer as a result. The central bank has no choice now but to keep hiking until inflation is down, experts have said. Here are five top voices in markets warning investors not to pin their hopes on a Fed put to save stocks. … Continue reading Here’s why Wall Street is warning the Fed blew it on inflation and won’t save the stock market from crashing