Analyst Articles

As income investors in Canada and the U.S. continue to face the challenge of a low interest rate environment, the equity market dividends continue to lure investment dollars. [more]

The RASI has breached two key technical indicators. The first was going below its down-trend line that started last February. Of even more import, the Index has gone below the critical 500 level that measures positive or negative market expectations. [more]

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported Q3/2019 global sales of 97,000 electric vehicles, which missed Factset’s estimate target of 99,000, with a 1.8% sales growth quarter-over-quarter compared with a 51% growth in Q2/2019. [more]

Kuuhubb, a Finnish mobile games company with a niche focus in developing or acquiring female-focused apps, recently announced expansion of its mobile games portfolio to include Match-3 and Casual Match-3 Esports platforms. [more]

Since the August low, the RASI Index showed good momentum, but it has now stalled, “rolled over”, and is heading lower. The DJIA shows the same trend. A new market catalyst is required to get both Indexes moving higher again. [more]

Last week, NASA posted then quickly retracted a paper written by Google’s researchers outlining a claim that the tech company built the first quantum computer while citing the term “quantum supremacy”, which means the computing power has reached a point capable of carrying out calculations previously impossible or more specifically, too time exhaustive, to carry out. [more]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Safe Banking Act. The legislation now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate for a vote. The legislation would protect federally-regulated banks from prosecution for doing business with cannabis companies in states where cannabis is legal. [more]

The robo-advisory landscape, once fragmented with start-ups disrupting the industry, is now changing as financial firms with large assets under management launch low-fee, robo-advisory services. [more]