Earlier this year I wrote an article explaining seasonal investing for those new to this particular stock investing strategy. My attention is turned once again to the topic of seasonal investing now that Horizons BetaPro has launched a new seasonal investing ETF.
Moreover, the new AlphaPro Seasonal Rotation ETF (TSX: HAC) is managed by Canada’s foremost [...]
August 18, 2009 · 6 comments
in BNN, Canadian economy, China, VIX volatility, economy, indexes, international economy, investing, market reports, recession, seasonal investing
Yesterday, August 17, 2009, China’s Shanghai Index posted the single biggest one-day loss so far for 2009 (and in fact since November 2008), dropping about 6% on concerns about the resiliency of China’s GDP numbers and consumer activity going forward.
Global Markets Sell-Off
This was the catalyst that sent oil down below $66 from a stable two-week [...]
The International Economic Forum of the Americas’ Conference of Montreal was covered this week by BNN’s Amanda Lang, who interviewed the World Bank President (Robert Zoellick), the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (Dominique Strauss-Kahn), former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and the CEO of General Electric (Jeffrey Immelt).
I’ll provide a brief overview [...]
Watch the first five minutes of this video clip from BNN (Canada’s all-business channel). Peter Gibson is Vice-Chair of Desjardins Securities, and he uses the D-word. In fact he says he still believes there’s a 30% chance we can fall into a Depression if measures aren’t put in place to avoid a “second-wave” collapse in [...]
Today on BNN’s SqueezePlay Kevin O’Leary suggested that the Canadian banks might catch the same “second leg down” disease that the American banks have now. Rather, Kevin suggested he might start to worry about that possibility. He didn’t actually say he thought the possibility was probable right now, just that it had come onto the [...]
Nouriel Roubini was featured on BNN’s Squeeze Play today, you need to check it out for yourself on BNN. Amanda Lang and Kevin O’Leary are not only probably the most entertaining talking financial heads out there, but they really do know what they’re talking about – you’re truly missing out if you don’t tune in [...]
Here are the stocks I’m watching lately, supported by votes of confidence from the guest analysts brought in lately on BNN:
Arc Energy Trust – (AET.UN-T): $28-29
Crescent Point Energy – (CPU.UN-T): $33-34
Husky Energy – (HSE-T): $43-44
Freehold Royalty Trust – (FRU.UN-T): $21-22
Diana Shipping – (DSX-N): $28-29
Interesting that most of them are oil plays. Oil per barrel [...]