Part 1: What It All Means for Investors: Online brokers as investments. There's a financial war going on, and the fallout is causing tremors well beyond Wall Street. Investors armed with the right information can make the new zero-commissions standard work to their ad...
Streetwise Reports
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November 21, 2019
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The market is now at record highs, and unemployment is way down. Even so, a U.S. rate cut is expected as early as this week. During his congressional testimony last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell raised concerns over slower global growth and trade tensions, ...
Frank Holmes
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July 15, 2019
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Unemployment in the U.S. is at a half-century low and the S&P 500 is trading at near-record highs. Nevertheless, the Federal Reserve today trimmed interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis on stalled manufacturing growth and an anticipated world econo...
Frank Holmes
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August 1, 2019
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Few people know the risks in today’s economy and marketplace as much as David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Canadian wealth management firm Gluskin Sheff & Associates. For years he’s educated investors with his popular “Break...
Frank Holmes
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April 8, 2019
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Stocks erased their weekly gains and bond yields fell on Friday as investors reacted to a number of economic developments. Chief among them were a Treasury yield curve inversion, the first since before the financial crisis, and continued slowdown in the pace of U.S. manufactur...
Frank Holmes
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March 25, 2019
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By Jonathan Goodman We at Dundee Goodman Merchant Partners have spent most of our working lives in the resource industry. Collectively we are money managers, geologists, engineers, mining operators, and natural resource/mining bankers. Moreover, all of us are person...
Research
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April 5, 2023
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“This is not QE. In no sense is this QE.” That was Jerome Powell in early October, answering a reporter’s question on whether the Federal Reserve’s intervention in the overnight U.S. repo market constituted anoth...
Frank Holmes
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December 11, 2019
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So far in 2020, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has averaged an anemic 0.01 percent when adjusted for inflation. Since the end of January, it’s actually dipped below 0 percent, trading as low as negative 0.14 percent on January 31. What this means is...
Frank Holmes
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February 18, 2020
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As many of you know, I serve as interim CEO and chairman of HIVE Blockchain Technologies, the first publicly traded company involved in the mining of cryptocurrencies. We maintain facilities in Iceland, Sweden and Norway, all of which have optimally cool climates and chea...
Frank Holmes
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July 8, 2019
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Say what you will about last week, it certainly wasn't dull. The Federal Reserve, seemingly capitulating to President Donald Trump and Wall Street, became just the latest central bank to cut interest rates. Meanwhile, the president escalated the trade war even further, an...
Frank Holmes
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August 7, 2019
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