Tech Selloff Ruins Record Day

Posted on by The INO.com Team

Hello MarketClub members everywhere. The Nasdaq has fallen more than 1% today, retreating from an early record and turning sharply lower for the week. The technology sector has abruptly fallen this afternoon on what could be viewed as profit taking after the recent run-up.

The Dow is fighting to stay in positive territory for the day and week while the S&P 500 has turned slightly lower for the day and the week as gains in both financial and energy shares offset the losses in the tech sector.

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Key levels to watch next week: Continue reading "Tech Selloff Ruins Record Day" →

Will This Micro Cap Be The PayPal Of Canada's Cannabis Industry?

Posted on by The INO.com Team

Analysis originally distributed on June 1, 2017 By: Michael Vodicka of Cannabis Stock Trades

Amazon was at the top of the headlines this week after its share price broke $1,000.

Amazon is now up 1,300% in the last 10 years. That is a nice win for shareholders. Early investors are sitting on big gains.

It’s also a reminder of where consumers are spending their money these days – online.

Any business that wants to thrive has to be winning online.

This is true in the cannabis industry. Just like the broader retail industry – online cannabis sales are booming.

However, Canada’s young cannabis companies are struggling to meet that growing demand.

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They are still being hampered by burdensome banking restrictions.

For example, Canadian cannabis producers have been banned from using PayPal because the U.S. based company is subject to US federal restriction on cannabis.

Even some larger banks have declined to provide financial service to Canada’s cannabis industry simply because its so new and considered higher risk. Continue reading "Will This Micro Cap Be The PayPal Of Canada's Cannabis Industry?" →

The Odds Of A Fed Rate Hike In June Just Got Smaller

Posted on by George Yacik

George Yacik - INO.com Contributor - Fed & Interest Rates


Still think the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its monetary policy meeting next week? Last Friday’s jobs report for May should make you rethink that notion. But it’s not the only reason.

Prior to the release of the report – which showed that the economy added just 138,000 jobs last month, nearly 50,000 below expectations, while the previous two months were revised downward by 66,000– the market consensus called for the Fed to raise rates by 25 basis points at its June 13-14 meeting. That doesn’t seem like such a sure thing anymore.

After its last meeting on May 2-3, when it took no action on rates largely because of a weaker-than-expected economy in the first quarter, the Fed said it expected the slowdown was “likely to be transitory.” Now, however, we have a pretty substantial body of evidence that indicate fairly strongly, if not consistently, that the slowdown has continued well into the second quarter. Continue reading "The Odds Of A Fed Rate Hike In June Just Got Smaller" →

Silver Monthly: Symmetric Triangle

Posted on by Aibek Burabayev

Aibek Burabayev - INO.com Contributor - Metals


It’s amazing how an updates’ timing can coincide with an interesting chart pattern that’s shaping up or trendline reactions. This time I spotted a Symmetric Triangle pattern as I was preparing this monthly update. I am happy to share it with you in the chart below.

Chart 1. Silver Monthly (Zoomed): Symmetric Triangle

Silver Monthly ChartChart courtesy of tradingview.com

The market got stuck for more than one year inside of the black Symmetric Triangle pattern. It shows that neither bulls nor bears could change the balance of the market as price volatility on the monthly chart faded and we reached the apex of the triangle where the trendlines converge. Continue reading "Silver Monthly: Symmetric Triangle" →