Economic Insights
Recession Barometer: US Back from the Brink
In the US, yields for maturities one year and out all rose dramatically last week. No change for Canada. [more]
Industry
Analyst Articles
Big Name Tech IPOs This Year Continue to Slip Well Below IPO Price
Of five big IPOs this year (Fiverr, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, and Uber), only Lyft and Fiverr had great opening days, but Pinterest is the only company of the five that is currently trading higher than its IPO. [more]
Analyst Articles
California’s New Labor Law Takes Aim at the Gig Economy
Bill would reclassify some contractors as employees targeting companies such as Uber & Lyft [more]
Analyst Articles
Trump Targets Vaping, Should this be a Concern for the Canadian Cannabis Extract Companies
U.S. Youth Vaping Epidemic and Vaping-Related Deaths Cast Shadow as Canada set to Legalize Cannabis Extract Products [more]
Analyst Articles
Recent Facebook and Google Fines Total Over $14B, Are there More Fines to Come?
The attorney generals of all 50 U.S. states and territories announced antitrust investigations of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, Could Google face the same fate that happened to AT&T in 1984? [more]
Calafia Beach Pundit
Calafia Beach Pundit – Private-Sector Jobs Growth
Private-sector jobs growth is decelerating, 96,000 private-sector jobs were created in August, less than the expected increase of 150,000. [more]
Analyst Articles
$3.2B Stakeholder in AT&T Criticizes Acquisitions but Still Believes Company has Potential to Double in Price
AT&T recorded weak performance past 10 years and underperformed S&P 500 Index by 150% [more]
Analyst Articles
Is it Time for a Sector Rotation?
Sector Rotation – can you beat the market by shifting money from one industry sector to another [more]
Analyst Articles
Low-Beta (Defensive) Stocks That Increased in Price during the Last Recession
Companies that suffer the most in a recession are companies whose products and services are elastic to demand or need consistent financing to sustain growth. [more]
Analyst Articles
Mastercard Acquires Danish Payment Platform for $3.2B to Bolster B2B Technology
Mastercard, a multinational financial service corporation, announced that it will acquire Denmark-based Nets Group, a payments platform that will be leveraged to support faster Business-to-Business (B2B) payments. [more]