Mattress stuffers or bullion holders? Who fares better in a crisis? North American investors are divided between those who believe the decade-long stock market bull is going to keep running into the 2020s, and investors who, wary of something terrible happening, are hoarding...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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December 20, 2019
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The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, did what many expected on Wednesday, and held interest rates steady, while signaling that a rate cut is on its way. Despite pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates, the Federal Open Market Co...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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June 21, 2019
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North American stocks have had a strong week. Markets on both sides of the border responded well to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s vote to hold interest rates between 5.25 per cent and 5.50 per cent for a fifth straight meeting. The central bank has kept r...
Jonathon Brown
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March 21, 2024
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A lot of Americans find themselves in a quandary over Donald Trump. On the one hand they can’t stand the braggadocious billionaire for his lack of principles, business ethics, exorbitant wealth, his treatment of women, minorities, the list goes on and on. But...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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May 10, 2019
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“It’s the tail that wags the dog” is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is usually employed in a situation wherein a cause that expects to elicit a certain effect, is in fact reversed. ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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May 21, 2019
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Sire Bioscience Inc’s ( CSE.SIRE , OTC: BLLXF , Forum ) business model is based on their ability to engage in the investment, production, and sale of hemp for CBD extraction. That’s the desirable scalable endgame for any cannabis company....
Dave Jackson
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May 13, 2020
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As stocks have slipped lower over the last three months, copper has bucked the broad trend and broken the pattern of lower highs and lower lows it set in the spring. After bottoming on June 7, the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Copper Subindex Total Return ETN - which closel...
Jon D. Markman
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October 28, 2012
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The ongoing battle between the United States and China for economic supremacy isn’t only being fought in the gilded ballrooms of Washington, as trade negotiators from either side parry over automobile parts content, intellectual property rights, government su...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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June 3, 2019
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Copper prices surged to a one-month high on Monday, on potential supply disruptions owing to violent protests in Chile over a proposed law, now suspended, that would raise the prices of transit tickets. At least 11 people have died, according to the mayor of Sant...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 23, 2019
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One of the worst weeks on Wall Street mercifully ended on Friday. S&P 500 DJIA Nasdaq After multiple sessions of panic selling, the markets caught an up-draft after US President Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus, thus freeing u...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 16, 2020
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