Last Week’s Top Five Market Winners Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ) The past week included significant gains for Clover Health Investments Corp. (CLOV), Shoals Technologies...

AMAZON EXCEPTION: Amazon (AMZN) announced a 1:20 stock split, its first since 1999, and investors responded by bidding its stock up 5%. They follow other mega caps like Alphabet...

COMMON DENOMINATOR: The world’s best (or least bad) performing equity markets this year, from Brazil (EWZ) to UK (ISF.L), have one common denominator. A big commodity stock weight...

COMMODITIES: The broad Bloomberg commodity index (DJP) is up 23% the past month and 35% this year. The Russia crisis compounded an already tight commodity market and boosted...

STAGFLATION: The Ukraine crisis and spikes in economic uncertainty and commodities have rekindled ‘stagflation’ fears. Of a toxic combo of sharp economic slowdown and higher...

Last Week’s Top Five Market Winners Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ) The past week included significant gains for Renewable Energy Group Inc. (REGI), PDC Energy Inc. (PDCE), Reata...

READ-ACROSS: The latest official analysis of who owns UK equities, the world’ no.3 market, has global lessons. With the growth of foreign ownership, now 56% of UK equities (see...

MISSES: A strong Q4 earnings season saw S&P 500 profits up 31% and Euro Stoxx600’ +67%, a key market support. But we also saw many high-profile misses and big stock falls....

Gender equality awareness is stronger than ever — and, as it turns out, important to look for when investing.  Research has shown that the more women in leadership positions a...

GREEN LINING: Soaring geopolitical risks has driven a safe-haven rotation to USD, bonds, gold. Renewable equities have been a rare equity performer, a green ‘silver-lining’ to the...