Stocks & Equities

Constellation Brands CEO Talks Beer, Seltzer, Canopy Investment With Cramer

Posted by Jayson Derrick

on Thursday, 9 January 2020 10:19

Constellation Brands, Inc. reported fiscal third-quarter results Wednesday, and CEO Bill Newlands was a guest on CNBC’s “Mad Money” to offer his take.

‘Scratching The Surface’ With Modelo

Constellation’s Modelo Especial is not only one of the few beer brands showing growth, but it is the “No. 4 beer brand” in the entire beer category with tremendous upside, Newlands told Jim Cramer.

The company has seen notable growth over the years, going from 35 million cases in 2009 to 140 million cases last year….CLICK for complete article

Can Six Myths Keep The Market Going?

Posted by Patrick Hill

on Wednesday, 8 January 2020 9:28

Piper Jaffray forecasts by year end 2020, the S&P 500 (SPX) will hit 3600, a 12.8 % increase. Of eighteen analysts interviewed by Marketwatch only three forecasters expect a decline for the SPX. Will the SPX reach 3600?  The SPX has soared over 400 % from a low of 666 in 2009 to over 3200 at the close of 2019. Mapping the SPX ten year history onto a psychology market cycle map of growth and decline phases poses interesting questions. As the market has zoomed over 400% upwards over ten years, it is clearly in the Mania Phase. Yet, the US economy is growing at the slowest rate of any economic recovery since WWII at 2.2 % GDP per year, why the disconnect? CLICK for complete article

The Real Investment Guide For The Next Decade

Posted by Lance Roberts

on Wednesday, 8 January 2020 9:24

As we head into the next decade, this complete set of articles delves into the fallacies of always owning stocks for the long run (aka “buy and hold” and passive strategies). Given that market’s cycle over time, it is important to understand how markets, and investing actually work, the impact on your wealth, and what you can do about it. CLICK for complete article

The Real Reason The U.S. Is Interested In Iran

Posted by Kurt Cobb

on Wednesday, 8 January 2020 9:17

The American obsession with Iran is about oil and natural gas. If these two resources had been absent, it is hard to imagine such an intense American focus on the country from the time of a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup of Iran’s elected government in 1953 to today. The Foreign Policy magazine piece linked above is based on declassified CIA documents and summarizes the coup this way: “Known as Operation Ajax, the CIA plot was ultimately about oil.”

This should come as no surprise. Iran was an oil power back in 1953 and it remains one today. Iran is presumed to have the third largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest natural gas reserves. Even if the numbers cited are somewhat inflated, Iran’s reserves are not small, and the country is likely to play a large role in world energy markets for many years to come.

The recent escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran because of the U.S. assassination of a prominent, popular and by all accounts highly effective Iranian general will allow the advocates of war to trot out all manner of excuses for such a war: terrorism, regime change, the credibility of the United States, Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons, and the United States’ geostrategic posture vis-à-vis big power rivals such as Russia and China. (Does anyone really know what the last one means?) CLICK for complete article

Three Reasons Precious Metals Are On The Rise

Posted by Alex Kimani

on Tuesday, 7 January 2020 10:26

For what seems like an eternity for the bulls, the gold market has suffered from a strange cognitive dissonance, stubbornly refusing to react to the signs of the times.

At a time when interest rates everywhere fell to historical lows, signs of a synchronized slowdown of the global economy abounded while trade wars and geopolitical tensions continued to rise, the gold market remained a snoozefest as investors’ love affair with the stock market endured.

But reality appears to have hit home–finally.

Gold prices have hit the highest level since 2013 as declining housing market sales, intensifying geopolitical risks and a retest of key levels worked in tandem to fuel a massive rally…CLICK for complete article