From the monthly archives:
Yesterday, U.S. GDP numbers came in better than expected at 3.5% – causing analysts to “unofficially officially” call the end of the U.S. recession (Canada, Australia and a few other countries had already come out of the recession). The National Bureau of Economic Research is expected to date the end of the recession to a [...]
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We hear enough about reasons why it might be good to do a graduate degree. Heck, we don’t even need to hear the reasons anymore because they are so ingrained in the discourse of college and early career-building phases themselves.
But how often do you see meetings, books, or announcements about the reasons you should not [...]
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Two things come to mind in Hallowe’en season if you’re an investor: candy and costumes. There’s little more left of the holiday festivity than dressing up in the latest gauche pop culture references and staples from past horror flicks – and all the parties held precisely to give the opportunity for doing so.
Just take a [...]
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Each month, the US Treasury holds a week-long auction of US notes and bonds to foreign investors and the Fed. In the past two years alone, there has been a record increase in monthly amounts of debt auctions from $18 billion to $44 billion a month. But this is still nothing compared to this week’s [...]
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Someone once said that wealth is what you’ve got left even after you’ve lost all your money.
In today’s business terms, wealth is goodwill; the invaluable resource that remains on the books despite what the rest of the balance sheets say. In social media, it is your reputation – or even the “personal brand equity” [...]
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Want to make a pure infrastructure play? What could be better than investing in freight rail. North American railroads carry the bulk of imports, exports, food, grain and other cargo back and forth through the U.S. and Canada – sometimes the same product, multiple times. This even makes railroads a unique way to play the [...]
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Just last week, the UK pound sterling (GBP) hit a 24-year low against the Canadian Dollar when it also hit five-year lows in UK inflation. The pound is currently weakening again as a result of the latest Bank of England reports on lower than expected Q3 GDP growth, which actually contracted 0.4%.
Ashraf Laidi, CMC Markets [...]
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