by Mark Bunting | Sep 18, 2020 | Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Feature, Investing, Investments, Stocks, Technology
Everyone knows Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a colossus. Jeff Bezos’ little online book selling company has transformed into a sprawling, global e-commerce, logistics and cloud services giant. But do we fully appreciate the sheer scale and continuing growth...
by Mark Bunting | Sep 9, 2020 | Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Investing, Stocks, Technology, United States
The current bubble in a select group of technology stocks compares to the real estate bubble in Japan in the late 1980s. That’s according to Andrew Perlin, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Washington Peak, an investment advisory firm. Perlin has written...
by Mark Bunting | Sep 9, 2020 | Big Picture, Disruption, E-Commerce, Interviews, Investing, Media, Stocks, Technology, Videos
Walmart is still the world’s largest retailer with a market value of nearly $400 billion. And its stock has gained more than 120 per cent the last five years. But the company has long since been passed by Amazon, which has a market cap of about $1.6 trillion and...
by Mark Bunting | Aug 25, 2020 | Banking, Big Picture, Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Financial Planning, Financials, Healthcare, Investing, Stocks, Technology
Unless you’re a trader, the advice to investors from portfolio managers worth their salt is to own well-managed, dependable, market-leading companies that people touch every day, and to own them for the long haul. So what do you want to own from now until at...
by John O'Connell | Aug 24, 2020 | Banking, Big Picture, Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Investing, Media, Stocks, Technology, United States
Donald Trump’s all-out trade war on China is a popular ploy to attract wide spread support across the American political spectrum. What’s not to like about blaming someone else for some of the ails of your country? There’s no doubt China doesn’t compete fairly...
by Mark Bunting | Aug 21, 2020 | Blogs, Disruption, E-Commerce, Investing, Media, Stocks, Technology, Uncategorized
Tired of reading and hearing about the extraordinary outperformance of the big technology stocks and their inordinately large share of the stock market? Well, you may not have to deal with it much longer. That’s not to suggest that Apple, Amazon et al have...
