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A Decision-making Process for Equity Investors

Buying stock is always easy. But, for independent-minded portfolio managers, the decision-making always comes down to a matter of choice and therein lies a problem. This week we had two stocks under consideration to buy for the WMA Cara Natural Resources Portfolio: the large cap diversified metal and coal miner

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The Single Most Important Indicator For Equity Investors

Buy Company Stocks For The Real Reason To Buy Stocks Many have expressed frustration in trading equities over the past few years. Between central banks holding interest rates at inappropriately low levels, official direct intervention (Swiss National Bank, Bank of Japan and undoubtedly clandestine government equity purchases) to support the

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Comparing the ‘Cannabis 50’ to the S&P 50

This week we compare many corporate fundamentals of the ‘Cannabis 50’ companies to the largest 50 of the S&P 500 companies. If we are going to buy, sell or hold the stocks, then we ought to understand how they stack up to the world’s best-known companies. In fact, for both

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THE ‘BILL CARA CANNABIS 50’ COMPANIES

This week we focus on 50 cannabis companies for which we, as portfolio managers, capture comprehensive investor-related data. We show how we capture the data and apply it to a proprietary algorithm to generate decision-support information. We will let the data speak for itself. But new readers will first need

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A Study in Detail of 21 Cannabis Companies

With apologies to many other cannabis companies, this article focuses on the 21 of them for which we have been able to capture comprehensive investor-related data. In this article, we show how we capture the data and apply it to a proprietary algorithm to generate portfolio management decision-support information. Let

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Is cannabis moving from brown to green?

The cannabis industry would have us all believe that the only color is green, and most of the early investors saw it that way too. But today, the picture has changed. Too much brown bud that can’t be sold and not enough green in their financial summaries or ours either.

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Cannabis Stocks: The Massive Gap between Fact and Fantasy

Our Two Cents on Cannabis Stocks Perhaps the single biggest driver of the global cannabis industry has been the vast amount of risk capital raised by investors of Canadian-based companies, which in turn has been due to political leadership in Canada, and specifically by its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A

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Fed-Induced Equity Volatility

With little economic or political news this week, markets kept doing what they’ve done since late December. The Nasdaq-100 is essentially at record highs. In a day or two the S&P 500 will cover the 20 more points to the upside to get to its record highs. Meanwhile the VIX

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Equity Universe Update

Markets continued to rally this past week in a “buy the rumour” anticipation of an announcement of a U.S.-China trade deal. The White House said on Friday after three days of trade talks with Chinese officials in Washington that the negotiations made progress on numerous key issues but significant work

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Bulls Step Up Joust With Bears

We had a rather slow news week giving way to a tight trading range on equity indexes. Chinese and U.S. negotiators have been working line-by-line through the text of an agreement that can be put before President Trump and counterpart Xi Jinping to defuse a nearly year-long trade war. As

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