Stock Market Forecast The S&P, NASDAQ, Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones continue on their bull rally trend as the market likes everything it’s seeing. And Friday’s FED-fueled jump is significant for the forecast. Interest rates are the number one factor, ahead of earnings, tariffs, inflation, etc. As each week brings its own news and…
Trump and the Canadian Tariffs Now in August 2025, amidst President Trump’s 35% non-CUSMA tariffs on Canadian exports to the US, the country’s economy is getting closer to a precipice. Canada still has its CUSMA deal but it’s coming to its conclusion next year. This month, flows across the border will slow with Canadian exporters…
Market Correction Coming Soon? Do you ever get that feeling that when things look too good to be true, you’re not far from finding the truth? And one truth is that the stock market is not driven by valuations or earnings, but instead by the emotions of institutional and retail investors — animal spirits. Right…
It’s a Good Time to Be American, But Not Canadian Talk about being between a rock and a hard place, Canadians are finding themselves stuck between two politically opposite politicians. If it continues, the country could fail. Tomorrow, we’ll see how the US stock market reacts to the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill,…
Massive Global Market: Your International Content Strategy How nice would it be to relax and enjoy an amazing and massive flow of travel customers from across the globe, wowed by your brand and content, fully trusting that booking with you is a great decision sure to satisfy? Sometimes a wider audience is the solution to…
✍ How To Optimize Your Travel/Tour Descriptions Hundreds of millions of travelers are online, mostly using Google, and they follow a finding path to destinations, hotels, trips, tours and more. Everything they see on their path to travel fulfillment, that stream of travel content is a description of a desired experience. The final destination…
🚗Top Tour Marketplaces Online The tour industry has grown in leaps and bounds, as global travelers search eagerly on Google, Bing and tour company websites for interesting travel experiences. Travelers want something invigorating or interesting to do for a sense of personal meaning, and a feeling that they’re immersed in these wonderful places. It’s all…
China Tariffs There’s a lot of interest in the impact of the US reciprocal tariffs of 125% on China. If you’re reading this from China, it’s not a rosy outlook for your country. And the tariff is just one reason. Unfortunately, the massive trade deficit with China and other nations has left the US with…
China’s Biggest Stock Market Loss Since the 2007 Crash As you’ll note here, China has a lot of experience dealing with market crashes. Some of the setbacks they’ve endured were astonishingly bad. The communist party found a way, but in those cases, it was exports that saved them. This time, export revenue won’t be available…
The US Gargantuan Trade Deficit with the World International Trade has been heralded as the greatest thing all the way back to the 1970s. The claim was based on the premise that nations would exchange goods and services they were able to make, and that countries wouldn’t be taken advantage of or run big deficits…
The Great American Reset As you might know the stock market and the price of oil are rocketing downward and the Dem media are trying to create an uproar on the job loss fears. The fervor is more about political points gained than in compassion for Americans. As the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and Russell indexes…
Europe on the Brink of Economic Disaster After President Trump announced its sweeping tariffs on imports into the US, Europe has suffered paroxysms of fear and doubt about its continued existence. While the EU is justifiably unhappy about the new tariffs of 20% on the EU, they should recognize that it could be much worse….
Trump’s Tariffs in Effect Yesterday, President Trump announced his promised, sweeping tariffs on foreign imports into the US, and the world looks very different. He lamented that this is the end of taking advantage of the US and it will be a boom economic period in the US. Today, investors dumped their favorite stocks of…
Trump’s Liberation Day: Launching US Business The world isn’t so pleased with Donald Trump since taking office, but Americans are about to enjoy a very prosperous period. Today’s event announced 50% reciprocal tariffs on nations that tariff the US. The event was a huge success for him politically given he not only announced protective tariffs…
Trump Tariffs Spoiling Investor’s Party It wasn’t so long ago that stock market investors were salivating at the launch of the Trump pro-US era with its promise of low taxation, de-regulation, less government interference, US manufacturing support, lower interest rates, and maybe even lower inflation and interest rates. If it didn’t sound too good to…
How Long Before You Lose Your Job to AI? AI is here, and it’s like a forest fire that generates a little smoke at first but accelerates into intense firenados as it meets thick brush forest aided by higher winds and dry hot air. AI feeds on a high-cost, low-productivity environment which becomes fuel for…
Is Nvidia Still an Investible Tech Stock? With 94% year over year growth in revenues to a Q4, 2024 record high of $113.26 Billion, it’s hard to understand why investors could doubt the value of Nvidia’s stock. Yet with each week that passes, new events and threats emerge to make investors begin to doubt Nvidia’s…
DeepSeek’s Bold Move into the AI Assistant Marketplace As you might know, the NASDAQ crashed upon the announcement of performance test results from a new AI LLM/chatbot service called Deepseek. Nvidia was down $1 trillion in market cap at one point! This AI-powered assistant (DeepSeek V3 powered by DeepThink R1) is competing with OpenAI and…
The Battle with Trump Can Free Canada Up for a Better Future Canada has largely failed to develop its international export capability. It’s missed out on an opportunity to ease an unhealthy dependence on one nation — The United States. It’s the perfect time to launch a new international trade program and get over our…
Expand Your Target Audiences to Grow Revenue The 2025 travel market and the 5-year travel market forecast tell the tale of an expanding consumer travel market and growing revenues for travel companies. It’s billions of travel sector dollars up for grabs and a chance to build a solid, sustainable travel business. In fact, companies that…
US Economic Outlook Investors await the FED’s next rate announcement next week, making it the ideal time to discuss the US economic outlook. There experts who don’t like the 6 month forecast believing the lagging effects of the high rates are now kicking in and will persist. Whether that weighs on the stock market or…
Is Outsourcing IT to India a Threat to National Security? The United States and Canada have been outsourcing IT to other countries for some time now, but with increasing concern about cyber security and trade deficits, questions are being asked about whether it’s something we should curtail. US companies have been given free reign to…
Stock Market News The story of the month might well be volatility, and we might expect more ups and downs for day traders to enjoy and retail investors to fear. Stock market analysts are talking about a rotation out of tech and into small caps, but the real story is about timing. Because Russell 2000…
Bull Market Continues into 2025? 2024 was a record-breaking year for the S&P, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones listed stocks. With the election of the Pro-American business Donald Trump, the markets have much to celebrate. Reduced taxes, regulations, and government wasted spending, on the back of lower interest rates will spur the economy in 2025. There…
Top 65 Immersive and Awesome Travel Experiences Across the World to Enjoy in 2024 Looking for an exceptional travel experience, perhaps one specially designed for you? Satisfy your deepest travel cravings many ways on this planet, and why shouldn’t the best be served up just for you? Time to give your travel imagination some room…
Air Canada Vacation Packages Canada’s premier Airline, Air Canada, is well recognized around the world with the world’s elite travelers for its impeccable service, safety, reliability, comfort, friendliness and destinations. They emphasize safe and flexible travel, with travel protection plans, free checked bags, and flexible booking options that allow changes or cancellations with a full…
Mountain Bike Marketing The global phenomenon of mountain biking is still in gear in 2025. While spending has slowed, it’s shifted mountain bikers choice of bikes, parts and even mountain biking vacations. It’s changed the demand profile, but smart bike marketing organizations know those who market well could capture even more of the market. Change…
Natural Gas Futures Prices Smart investors pick the best stocks but they also know to invest in a dip. Right now, one investible commodity is in a dip period. It is the last? Everyone might think the dip stocks or commodities are all gone, yet natural gas remains at very low price levels. For investors…
Moving to Vancouver Canada Are you looking at endless years of monotony where you live without zest and fun? Perhaps you should travel and explore in 2023/24? One city that should come to mind is Vancouver, Canada. Not up on Vancouver? It’s the diversity of the experience – on water, city, and nearby mountains with…
Stock Market Outlook Next Ten Years It’s difficult for any investor to make confident stock buying and selling decisions without a clear, long term vision of the economy. You want some certainty about the 5 year outlook and the 10 year long range outlook. This long range outlook is about more than the Dow Jones…
Vancouver Housing Market Update and Forecast Vancouver has built its reputation as one of the most beautiful cities and locations in the world. The modernization of the city, incredible mountain vistas, moderate climate with a surprising amount of yearly sunny days, high tech center growth, tourism and neighboring mountain recreation areas makes this area a…
Oil Companies Bid on Gulf Oil Field Rights The big news is President, fresh from his trip to Europe to push anti-oil policies, extra taxes and anti-development ideas to the world (including poor countries who can’t afford EVs), is selling massive oilfield drilling rights in the environmentally sensitive Gulf of Mexico. Yes, this the same…
China Economic Predictions It’s a challenge to describe the Chinese economy given it is a capitalist market built on top of a communist system. The country is now at a cross roads and must decide whether it can handle a free, open relationship with the rest of the world. Today’s topic is China’s effect on…
Investing and Global Diversification If you scan the 5 year forecast or 10 year forecast for US stock markets, you might conclude that US price and earnings growth doesn’t look as inspiring versus China, Vietnam, Brazil, Germany or other markets. But those investors thinking of investing internationally in Mexico, Japan, Australia, Viet Nam, Germany, Korea,…
Where is Canada’s Economy Headed? A new report on Canadian GDP has more people taking a closer look at the Canadian economy and perhaps reconsidering how they’ll vote in this coming snap Federal election. StatsCan says Canada’s GDP shrank 1.1% in the 2nd quarter of 2021 and has dropped by .4% in July. According to…
SpeedTest 5G Speed Report We’ve all been hearing a lot about 5G for a while now. The technology is so good, it’s created a surge in investment in 5G network technology, and consumer smartphones. In this post, we see how 5G fares against current bandwidth service in 4G, broadband and cellular services. You’ll be surprised…
Now is The Right Time to Repatriate Jobs to the US Jobs are always vitally important to a country, an economy and the well being of its people, and even more so during this pandemic recession. Creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs could help the US endure the China Virus’ devastation and get back…
Should You Buy Facebook Stock? Facebook has fared much better than most companies in 2020 despite the pandemic shutdown. And experts feel 2021 will be a phenomenal year for the FB stock and earnings. With a slate of new, hot products, the social media giant is competing in all the right places. FB’s stock price…
US Economic Forecast Part 2 (Continued from Part 1) China’s manufacturing sector has been declining, particularly of late. The communist led country is suffering the worst economic forecast of the last 50 years. China’s in more trouble than anyone will admit even if they print more money to alleviate the losses. China’s propaganda mills are…
Demand for Luxury Homes in Aurora Aurora Ontario Canada is one of those special small cities or towns that’s blessed with a great location, warm community, and a special character. It’s more than a place of expensive homes and luxury cars however. If you’ve never heard about Aurora ON, you’ll discover here and in the…