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Pass-Through Entity Taxation And New Tax Law
Like baseball, young love, and hay-fever, we’ve entered the high season for taxes. New this year, however, we begin to react to changes in the tax reform law of December 2017. The point of that law was to make the world safe for businesses and their owners, who received healthy tax cuts. If you were […]
3 Top-Rated Research Tools For Retaining Investors
With more than 45 million self-directed investors, many online brokers and other wealth tech providers are struggling with user acquisition. The cost of acquiring a new user can vary from $250 – $1500 which is why companies allocate considerable resources to retain existing users. Market intelligence fintech and new alternative brokerages are on the rise, and the […]
Gold Prices Look To Fed Commentary, Beige Book And Risk Trends
Gold Fundamental Forecast: Neutral Talking Points: Gold prices give up gains amidst geopolitical risks cooling and hawkish FOMC minutes The anti-fiat asset can be vulnerable to risk trends thanks to the high-yielding US Dollar Watch out for US retail sales, Fed commentary + beige book, and Trump commentary Gold prices seemed like they were about to shoot for the stars last week […]
Geopolitical Tension Could Be Catalyst For Gold’s Rally
The geopolitical tension between the United States and Russia escalated rapidly in the past two weeks. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Treasury Department announced fresh sanctions against Russian oligarchs and companies due to “Russia’s malign activity around the globe”. This new sanctions have caused economic pain to Moscow with Russian Ruble and MOEX benchmark index […]
Weekly Market Outlook – Proof That It’s All In The Follow-Through
The market may have mustered a gain last week, but it was anything but a decisive victory. The indices didn’t clear some key technical resistance, and once again the volume supporting the advance was feeble. This whole thing could still crumble easily enough…ultimately proving it’s not the initial bullish effort that matters, but the one […]
More Weakness? How Much?
Some analysts called for the final low of the correction to have occurred on 4/02, at 2554. I have been reluctant to do this for two principal reasons: 1) The 40-wk. cycle low is still ahead of us — ideally due to bottom sometime in May, and 2) there is an unfilled valid count to […]
Weekly Economic & Political Timeline – April 15
This week will see a somewhat lighter news agenda than last week, with central bank input expected from Canada and Australia, as well as some crucial economic data from the U.S.A., China, and the U.K. Any further developments regarding Syria may also have an impact. The market will probably be most active on Tuesday. U.S. […]
Market Volatility Continues To Increase
The Dow Jones saw its latest correction bottom on March 23rd declining to -11.58% in the BEV chart below. Since then the Dow Jones has oscillated from just below -10% and up to the -8% BEV levels as bulls and bears alike wait to see what is coming their way. So what’s next for […]
Boof Review: Brodie And Harnack, The Trust Mandate
The Trust Mandate: The behavioural science behind how asset managers really win and keep clients by Herman Brodie and Klaus Harnack (Harriman House, 2018) is a short book (about 130 pages of text). It starts by looking at some seeming anomalies regarding which managers attract the most asset inflows—notably, not necessarily the best performers. A lot […]
How Much Is A Lottery Ticket Worth?
Ask most people how much a lottery ticket is worth and the most probable answers will be the price of the ticket, the value of the jackpot or simply: “Is it a winning ticket?” The value of a ticket for a forthcoming drawing is none of these. The reason for this is related to a […]
