Monthly Archives: June 2024

A.I. hype has magnified market downside

A worthwhile discussion in this segment… So far this year, the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 have accounted for more than 76% of the index’s gain. This is the 2nd most concentrated reading for the S&P in the … Continue reading

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Canadian financial weakness stands out

The unemployment rate and bankruptcies are surging. Here is a direct video link. Canadian corporate bankruptcies are +93% year over year (shown below since 2014). While the Canadian stock market has gone nowhere since November 2021…

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Liquidity crunch

Twelve years of continuous central bank interventions (2010 to 2022) helped to sustain near-zero interest rates, which increasingly starved capital of conventional investment income/yield—the long-standing engine of compound returns. The finance sector capitalized on the yield void by offering high-fee … Continue reading

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