by John O'Connell | Dec 29, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Financial Planning, Investing, Stocks, United States
If there’s one word that encapsulated the stock market this year, it would be “unpredictable.” In a way, “awful” would also work. The 20% year-to-date collapse in the S&P 500 Index is the worst year since 2008. Happy holidays, indeed. I wrote at the end of last...
by Mark Bunting | Dec 22, 2022 | Big Picture, Canada, Disruption, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Top Ideas, United States, Videos
Sponsored Content “World Class” Resource & Proprietary Green Technology: The Case for VanadiumCorp What do you know about Vanadium? We’ll admit we didn’t know too much about the hard, silvery-grey, critical metal until we conducted...
by Mark Bunting | Dec 20, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Top Ideas, United States
It can pay to be a contrarian. Especially when things escalate quickly, to borrow from Ron Burgundy in Anchorman after a ferocious battle with rival news teams. The seven participants in our stock picking challenge of 2022 were armed for the daily skirmishes of the...
by Mark Bunting | Dec 16, 2022 | Blogs, Canada, E-Commerce, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Top Ideas, United States
Chick-fil-A makes more in annual sales per restaurant being open six days a week than McDonald’s does in seven. That’s according to Hedgeye Risk Management Consumer Staples analyst Daniel Biolsi. Most people wouldn’t know that fact because...
by Mark Bunting | Dec 13, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Financial Planning, Investing, Stocks
What are advisers to high-net-worth clients telling them about what to expect next year and how they’re positioning their portfolios? We have a look at what a strategy team of a private bank is saying about the probability of a recession, and which sectors and...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Dec 9, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Investing, Stocks, Top Ideas
Many investors are anxious for the major North American stock indices to do what they want them to do instead of what they’re actually doing. That is not finding a bottom yet and continuing to drift lower as a recession in earnings is just getting started....
