Description: Adobe is paying 2021 prices. It’s 2022. Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley is thrilled. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Sep 15, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/figma-investors-score-historic-coup-with-adobe-deal-in-down-year-.html Questions for discussion: Why does Wall Street hate this deal? Do you think it was a good one for both company’s shareholders?
Posts Categorized: Personal Finance
David Rosenberg: A Canadian recession is ‘all but set in stone’
Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in early 2020, leading to widespread lockdowns and a plunge in economic activity, the Canadian government, like virtually all its peers, flooded households with extra cash to supplement cascading income. As a result, even though employee compensation fell 9.2 per cent, a whopping 30.5 per cent surge in… Read more »
Peloton co-founders John Foley and Hisao Kushi are leaving the company in a broad executive shakeup
Description: Peloton on Monday announced the resignations of two of the company’s founders and another top executive, marking the end of an era for the struggling fitness-equipment company as CEO Barry McCarthy dramatically reshapes the business. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Sep 13, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/peloton-co-founders-john-foley-hisao-kushi-are-leaving-company.html Questions for discussion: What has happened at the firm… Read more »
Bed Bath & Beyond: Pump and dump allegations ‘are without merit’
Description: Bed Bath & Beyond is responding to a new shareholder lawsuit alleging its former CFO was involved in a pump and dump scheme.”The company is in the early stages of evaluating the complaint but based on current knowledge the company believes the claims are without merit,” Bed Bath & Beyond spokesperson Julie Strider told… Read more »
How to boost your portfolio ‘without doing anything,’ from a chief investment strategist: You can ‘improve your performance by a third’
Description: It’s been a volatile and difficult year for investors in the broad stock market, and tech-stock investors have had it even worse. If you invest in dividend stocks, however, you’re probably doing somewhat better. Source: CNBC.com Date: Sep 09, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/09/how-dividends-work-add-to-stock-returns-chief-investment-strategist.html Questions for discussion: What does the article say is the easy way… Read more »
TSX stocks: Energy sector to shield Canada’s main index from Euro, U.K. weakness
Description: Oil, natural gas and renewable power producers will boost Canada’s energy-heavy benchmark stock index, as economic weakness in Europe and the U.K. weighs on this country’s technology and industrial shares. Source: YahooFinance.com – video report Date: Sep 08, 2022 Link: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tsx-stocks-economic-pain-in-uk-europe-likely-to-be-slightly-positive-153007136.html Questions for discussion: What does the report say about the performance of the… Read more »
If you need one more reason why stocks will likely lose money in September, here it is.
Description: Finally, investors have a good reason for why the U.S. stock market will suffer above-average volatility and below-average performance this month: It’s the Fed. Source: MarketWatch.com – video report Date: Sep 03, 2022 Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-you-need-one-more-reason-why-stocks-will-likely-lose-money-in-september-here-it-is-11662108548?mod=home-page Questions for discussion: What does the report say are the reasons for the prediction of a poor September stock… Read more »
How to Confront the Anti-ESG Campaign
Description: In the following opinion piece, Witold Henisz, vice dean and faculty director of Wharton’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Initiative, explains why the anti-ESG investing movement is gaining ground, and what can be done to mitigate its impact. Source: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu – podcast Date: August 30, 2022 Link: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-to-confront-the-anti-esg-campaign/ Questions for discussion: What are the issues… Read more »
‘Why shouldn’t it be as bad as the 1970s?’: Historian Niall Ferguson has a warning for investors
Description: Historian Niall Ferguson warned Friday that the world is sleepwalking into an era of political and economic upheaval akin to the 1970s — only worse. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Sep 02, 2022 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/1970s-inflation-historian-niall-ferguson-has-a-warning-for-investors.html Questions for discussion: What does historian Niall Ferguson think is happening and likely to happen in the near… Read more »
Lululemon earnings show ‘the brand is strong’: Analyst
Description: BMO Managing Director Simeon Siegel joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss second-quarter earnings for Lululemon, consumer demand, competition in the athletic apparel space, inventory, and the outlook for profit growth. Source: YahooFinance.com – video report Date: Sep 02, 2022 Link: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/video/lululemon-earnings-show-brand-strong-150359430.html Questions for discussion: What does the report say about the performance of the… Read more »
