Description: Today, their start-up Aurora Tights says it’s the country’s most inclusive hosiery brand, designing tights for hundreds of figure skaters, dancers, cheerleaders and gymnasts. That includes Team USA pairs skater Ashley Cain-Gribble, who is competing in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. Source: CNBC.com Date: Feb 17, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/aurora-tights-how-side-hustle-for-black-ice-skaters-got-to-olympics.html Questions for discussion: What… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Americans are paying more for worse stuff, study finds
Description: Measured by consumer prices, U.S. inflation is the highest in 40 years. Look at what Americans are actually getting for their money and the rate may be even higher, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report Date: Feb 17, 2022 Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/americans-are-paying-more-for-worse-stuff-study-finds-1.1724841 Questions for discussion: What does the… Read more »
How Should Investors Value Gold?
Description: Investors of all kinds have always been lured by the king of metals, and even the most hardnosed of them know it holds extra value for those who adorn themselves with it. Wharton finance and economics professor Urban Jermannhas devised a new approach to capture that extra value in gold jewelry, allowing investors a better… Read more »
Buy stocks like Whirlpool — not NFTs, asset manager says
Description: Investors should be looking to pick up stocks like Whirlpool and avoid assets like CryptoPunks NFTs, according to Jeff Henriksen, CEO and founder of Thorpe Abbotts Capital. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Feb 07, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/buy-stocks-like-whirlpool-not-nfts-asset-manager-says.html Questions for discussion: What is wrong with valuations, according to this report? What advice is presented to investors?… Read more »
Investors have subsidized our Uber rides, Spotify tunes and Netflix binging — but maybe not for much longer
Description: Is the era of capital market subsidies nearing an end? I’m not referring to governments bending over to investment firms (which happens too often), but investors subsidizing customers. Source: FinancialPost.com Date: Feb 04, 2022 Link: https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/investors-have-subsidized-our-uber-rides-spotify-tunes-and-netflix-bingeing-but-maybe-not-for-much-longer Questions for discussion: Summarize the key points made about how investors “subsidized” customers while the firm was scaling… Read more »
Analyst cuts five of Big Six banks to sell on rate-hike fallout
Description: A Bay Street analyst who hasn’t shied away from going bearish on the banks is doing it again. Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report Date: Feb 09, 2022 Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/analyst-cuts-five-of-big-six-banks-to-sell-on-rate-hike-fallout-1.1721005 Questions for discussion: What is the current status of bank stocks, according to the reports? Why is D’Souza suggesting a fall-back in stock prices? Do you agree… Read more »
Peloton’s new CEO, Barry McCarthy, says he’s ‘here for the comeback story,’ an internal email shows
Description: Peloton’s new CEO, Barry McCarthy, is telling remaining staff that he’s “here for the comeback story.” Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Feb 09, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/09/read-the-email-that-pelotons-new-ceo-barry-mccarthy-sent-to-staff.html Questions for discussion: What are the positive and negative factors facing the new CEO? What is his plan? What would you advise? Do you think the firm… Read more »
Is This What Winning Looks Like?
Description: Modern Monetary Theory, the buzziest economic idea in decades, got a pandemic tryout of sorts. Now inflation is testing its limits. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Feb 07, 2022 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/business/economy/modern-monetary-theory-stephanie-kelton.html Questions for discussion: What is MMT as you understand it? How would you answer the questions posed in the article, “Did Congress ‘experiment’ with MMT,… Read more »
A Meta-morphosis of sentiment that may turn again: Morning Brief
Description: Despite a Meta-drubbing, all might not be lost . Unleash the Meta-phors. The big fourth quarter earnings miss by Facebook’s re-christened parent company (FB) Meta-stasized on Wall Street (sorry, I just couldn’t resist) — dragging all the major indexes lower in an unmitigated bloodbath. Source: Yahoo.Finance.com – video report Date: Feb 04, 2022 Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-meta-morphosis-in-market-sentiment-morning-brief-100754611.html Questions… Read more »
Payrolls show surprisingly powerful gain of 467,000 in January despite omicron surge
Description: Job growth rose far more than expected in January despite surging omicron cases that seemingly sent millions of workers to the sidelines, the Labor Department reported Friday. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Feb 04, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/04/jobs-report-january-2020-.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail Questions for discussion: What does this data suggest is happening – economically speaking? What does this… Read more »
