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The Weekly Beacon – June 7, 2024

June 7th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

Private equity valuations, PE exits, Bitcoin ETFs, Bitcoin demand, Texas Stock Exchange, Money flow, Citadel, Bank of Canada, Interest rates, Inflation, Walmart signage, Economic numbers, Jobs report, Manufacturing data, GameStop stock, Meme stocks, Keith Gill, Roaring Kitty, Gold prices, Central Bank gold purchases, U.S. Treasuries, Gold utilization.

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The Weekly Beacon – May 31, 2024

May 30th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Population, Fertility rates, Healthcare workers, Pension plans, T+1 trading, Regulations in securities markets, Wheat prices, Russian commodity dominance, U.S. telecommunications industry, T-mobile stock, T-Mobile acquisition, S&P 500 weightings, Concentration in equity markets, Inflation, 1970s inflation waves, The FED, Shein IPO, Chinese stocks on the NYSE, Geopolitics, China U.S. relations, Patient investing.

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The Weekly Beacon – May 24, 2024

May 23rd, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: FED, FED members, Inflation, Interest rates, Interest servicing, Government debt, Gas prices, Energy, Oil prices, SPR release, Biden energy policy, Emerging markets, India stocks, Mexico ETF, Chinese stock market rebound, P/E ratios of each country, Emerging markets ETF, Inflation in the classroom, Bond market, Balanced fund under-performance, U.S.Treasury performance in 2024.

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The Weekly Beacon – May 17, 2024

May 16th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Meme stocks, Circa 2021, Roaring Kitty, Retail traders, Gamestop stock, AMC stock, Short squeezes, Hedge funds, EV demand, Hybrid demand, Auto sales, Trade wars, China and the U.S. geopolitics, EV sanctions, Rare earth metals, China ETF, Interest rates, FED decision, Inflation report, Uranium and nuclear energy, Spot price of uranium, Nuclear energy, Red Lobster bankruptcy, Chapter 11 filings, Thai Union Group.

The Weekly Beacon – May 10, 2024

May 9th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Peloton stock, Peloton and private equity, Stay at home stocks, Magnificent 7 performance, Apple performance, Tesla stock, G7 countries, Canada's contracting economy, Artificial growth, Bill Gross, Bond king, Bond funds and total return, Treasury yields, Bitcoin, Bitcoin ETFs, SEC, Pandemic savings, Consumer spending, Semi conductors, Trade wars, China and the U.S., NFL, Private equity, Finance and sports.

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The Weekly Beacon – May 3, 2024

May 2nd, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Job layoffs, Unemployment, Tech industry job trends, Learn to code, Tesla, Self driving cars, Tesla and China, Elon Musk, Waste Connections Inc stock, Waste Connections analysis, Waste management stocks, Canada housing market, Canada population growth, Canada's migration, Correlation between bonds and stocks, FED decision, Jerome Powell, Rate cuts, Gold prices.

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The Weekly Beacon – April 26, 2024

April 26th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Brown & Brown, Insurance stocks, Consistent compounders, Earnings season, GM earnings, EVs vs traditional automakers, Tesla stock, TikTok ban, Congress ban TikTok, Senate, Capital gains tax, Biden taxation plan, 2024 election, Consumer debt, Credit card debt, Government debt, U.S. financials ETF, Cathie Wood, Ark Investments, ETF outflows.

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The Weekly Beacon – April 19, 2024

April 18th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: U.S. Dollar, Currencies, Swift system, Death of the Euro, IMF growth forecasts, Inflation rates Tesla workforce layoffs, EV demand slowing, Electric vehicles, Apple stock, Risks for Apple, Antitrust case Alphabet and Apple, Stay at home stocks, Zoom stock, Peloton collapse, Valuations, P/E ratios, Capital gains tax, Canada budget 2024, Bitcoin, High leveraged stocks, Beta, Nasdaq 100, Bond market, Fund managers sell debt.

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The Weekly Beacon – April 12, 2024

April 11th, 2024|The Weekly Beacon|

This weeks issue: Gold prices, GDX ETF, Gold miners, Junior miners, Nvidia, Semiconductors, Nvidia stock, Intel stock, March CPI, Inflation report, FED, Interest rates, Costco, Gold purchases, Gold bars, Chinese stocks, Chinese cement company, China Tianrui Company, Chinese economic downgrade, China credit ratings, China government debt, The Masters, Amateur golfers.