It’s Election Day across the U.K, and millions of voters will determine what happens next with the Brexit saga, which has lasted three years. If Prime Minister Johnson can win an outright majority, the British pound could respond with significant gains. ...
FX Empire
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December 12, 2019
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The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and for that we can largely blame policies of envy that increasingly restrict investors’ access to wealth-building instruments. Case in point: I was recently invited to participate in a pri...
Frank Holmes
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October 15, 2019
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It has been a hot few weeks recently for most of North America, both for the weather and for investor discussion! The markets faced a rate cut in the US, ongoing trade disputes, a high for gold prices, and a potential bounce-back for the cannabis sector. Much of the d...
Omri Wallach
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August 8, 2019
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I don’t know about you, but I never thought I’d see the day when the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond dipped below 2 percent, let alone 1.8 percent. And yet that’s precisely what happened on Tuesday as investors weighe...
Frank Holmes
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February 26, 2020
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This week, Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry. Is it a well-grounded argument, publicity stunt or reflection of the growing polarization inside the Democratic party? Storm in a tea cup or not, should Trump be worried? And gold? W...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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September 26, 2019
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Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the effects of geopolitics on the price of gold. In this update I am not going to repeat the points made in the last fairly comprehensive update , instead we are going to focus on the importance of the resistance level just ab...
Streetwise Reports
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January 7, 2020
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After 100 years of cannabis Prohibition, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the normalization of cannabis laws in North America (and around the world) has been a slow, uneven process. Even so, cannabis investors will likely be surprised to learn how clumsy ...
Stockhouse Editorial
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March 15, 2019
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Let’s begin with a thought experiment. Imagine you wake up tomorrow from a three and a half-year coma. Everything that’s happened in the meantime—the election of Donald Trump, impeachment, Brexit and more—is a complete mystery to you....
Frank Holmes
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December 23, 2019
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We may very well be headed for a recession—some economists believe it’s already here —but we’re most definitely in a bear market, normally defined as occurring when stocks are off more than 20 percent from their peak. Not only that, bu...
Frank Holmes
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March 18, 2020
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Helped by the financial sector headlines, stocks reversed higher yesterday - is the downside move drawing to a close? It might look so, but I'm not convinced yet. Despite the generally positive S&P 500 performance during the runups to Independence Day, the new Fed rules might ...
Monica Kingsley
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June 26, 2020
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