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Buy This High-Yield Energy Midstream Stock Before The Next Dividend Hike

Buy This High-Yield Energy Midstream Stock Before The Next Dividend Hike

Image Source: Unsplash The investing public has begun to realize that AI will require a massive buildout of data centers, and those centers will require vast amounts of energy to power their services and keep them cool. For example, a Chat-GPT query requires almost 10 times the power of a Google search.Energy midstream companies provide the […]
Trump Has Painted Himself Into A Corner When It Comes To Tariffs On Canadian Oil Imports

Trump Has Painted Himself Into A Corner When It Comes To Tariffs On Canadian Oil Imports

Image source: Pixabay In typical bravado fashion, Trump  declared that “We don’t need their oil and gas. We don’t need anything they have“ in reference to Canadian exports. If only that it were true. Starting in the early 1990s, the US has increasing relied upon Canadian oil shipped principally from Alberta into the US heartland. A system […]
FTSE Prints Record Highs Before Pulling Back To Close Red On The Day

FTSE Prints Record Highs Before Pulling Back To Close Red On The Day

Image Source: Pexels London’s FTSE 100 made waves on Wednesday by hitting a record high, fuelled by positive corporate updates and expectations of further monetary policy support. These factors took the spotlight away from worries surrounding the tariffs declared by U.S. President Donald Trump. Initially, the blue-chip index surged by 0.3% in early trading before experiencing […]
Coinbase urges Court of Appeals to rule token trades on its platform aren’t securities

Coinbase urges Court of Appeals to rule token trades on its platform aren’t securities

Key Takeaways Coinbase petitioned the Second Circuit to declare digital token trades on its platform are not governed by federal securities law. The decision could impact SEC enforcement actions and reshape the regulatory landscape for digital assets in the US. Share this article Coinbase has requested the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit […]
Productivity, Demand And Manufacturing Employment

Productivity, Demand And Manufacturing Employment

Is the decline in manufacturing employment due to trade competition? Insights from a decomposition. Figure 1: Employment change from 1997Q1 (black line), change attributable to output change (blue bar) and attributable to productivity change (tan bar). Calculations based on log differences. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BLS Employment and Costs release, NBER, and […]
Trump’s Going To Be Great For… China Stocks?

Trump’s Going To Be Great For… China Stocks?

Image Source: Unsplash Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday, kicking off his second term as the 47th President of the United States. There’s a lot of optimism from the business community at the moment, and a lot of the focus is, understandably, on what’s happening in the U.S.But over the past couple of weeks, […]
Oracle’s Stock Surges As $500B Trump-Endorsed AI Initiative Unveiled

Oracle’s Stock Surges As $500B Trump-Endorsed AI Initiative Unveiled

Image courtesy of 123rf.com In a significant move set to reshape the landscape of artificial intelligence in the United States, major tech companies, including OpenAI, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), SoftBank, and MGX, have announced a groundbreaking $500 billion initiative dubbed the ‘Stargate‘ project. President Donald Trump’s announcement at the White House outlines plans to construct AI infrastructure […]
Macro Briefing – Wednesday, Jan. 22

Macro Briefing – Wednesday, Jan. 22

US equities rose for a second day, lifting the S&P 500 Index closer to its record-high close posted in December. “President Trump’s Inauguration Day policy announcements on tariffs were more benign than expected,” wrote Alec Phillips, chief US political economist at Goldman Sachs, in a note to clients yesterday. Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group, says […]
Bank Of Canada Set To Tread Carefully With A 25bp Cut

Bank Of Canada Set To Tread Carefully With A 25bp Cut

The Bank of Canada is widely expected to cut rates on 29 January with a 25bp move looking as the most likely outcome amidst tepid growth, benign inflation and an unemployment rate that’s trending higher. US trade tensions present downside risks to growth and could force the BoC to cut deeper later this year. For now, […]
Netflix Earnings Breakdown

Netflix Earnings Breakdown

Netflix (NFLX) reported quarterly adjusted EPS of $4.27, which came in slightly higher than street estimates of $4.21. Netflix results have come in better than expectations in 7 of the last 8 quarters, with the outlier being Q4 2023. These latest results came in +1.4% above street expectations, which was below the 8 quarter average […]