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Our President, Anthony Danaher summarizes last week’s markets (07/20/17)
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Our President, Anthony Danaher Discuss The Growing Gaming Industry And The Rise Of E-Sports
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Yes, Higher GDP Growth Is Possible In the U.S. — and Here’s How It Can Be Achieved
Yes, Higher GDP Growth Is Possible In the U.S. — and Here’s How It Can Be Achieved Sometimes, academic economists are worth paying attention to. A recent paper published by the Hoover Institution provided one of the best summaries we have read of the current state of the U.S. economy,
Retail Tremors Shake the Payment Ecosystem
Consumers who use credit and debit cards are typically aware only of the card they’re using and the merchant they’re buying from; the payment pro-cess is a “black box” from a consumer’s perspective. But as the first image below shows, the black box hides a complex ecosys-tem of firms
Markets Get a Short Correction
The world stock and metals markets got a correction earlier this week. We knew a correction was coming because the markets had a big run without much of a pullback. On Tuesday, we recommended selling the Vanguard Emerging Market Fund (NYSE: VWO) as we thought the pull-back in emerging
Guild’s Premium Global Market Commentary
It’s hard to believe, but the Republican campaign circus has been in full swing for almost six months already — remember the Iowa straw poll in August? It’s been wildly entertaining, and has narrowed from ten rings to four. But in the past two weeks, with the unveiling of
The Market Wave & How We’re Riding It
As we explained in detail last week, the global markets are being flood-ed with expanded liquidity. The sources of this liquidity are the usual suspects: quantitative easing (QE), interest rate declines, bond purchases, equity purchases, and other means. As the number of countries all over the world that are
The Logic Behind Our Open Commodity Recommendations
Our open positions include positions in two commodities: gold and wheat. Gold Gold is in a very attractive position for a host of reasons. Many governments are acquiring gold to be held in their national reserves. Worldwide, many countries are working to expand liquidity and lower interest
Our Opinion on the Markets Remains…
Overall, we remain bullish on our previous recommendations. As we discussed last week, everybody around the world seems to be working together to create massive liquidity for the markets and to raise asset prices. We do expect corrections in the markets between now and mid-March, but we expect them
All Aboard! The Train is Leaving the Station
It’s time to make money! Get on the train and invest while the market is in an uptrend. Guild Investment Management strives to provide the best institutional-grade analysis. In order to fulfill our objective, we constantly scan the globe for political, social, and economic trends, events — and especially
We Are Bullish, We Are Invested, and Here’s Why
In last week’s letter we recommended investors buy the U.S. S&P 500 for a rally. Here are some of the reasons behind our recommen- dation: The U.S. labor market is gaining some traction. Job creation is slowly turning up. We aren’t getting overexcited because once again the
Professional Analysis at a Fraction of the Professional Cost
See It Here Early We believe our continuous research and our ever-refreshing analy-sis of global economics helps us to see trends earlier than many other economists and money managers — and that’s what we strive for at Guild Investment. We want to give you a leg up in
Retail Tremors Shake the Payment Ecosystem
Retail Tremors Shake the Payment Ecosystem Consumers who use credit and debit cards are typically aware only of the card they’re using and the merchant they’re buying from; the payment process is a “black box” from a consumer’s perspective. But as the first image below shows, the black box hides
Digital Currency “ICOs” and the Regulators
Two weeks ago, we wrote an intro-duction to digital currencies in which we pointed out how fast these new instruments have proliferated. Nearly a thousand are currently available — and almost a hundred more are now listed on coinmarketcap.com than when we ran the article. (A lot of readers found
U.S. Market: Volatility With An Upward Flourish In Early 2012
In last week’s letter we recommended investors buy the U.S. S&P 500 for a rally. Here are some of the reasons behind our recommendations: The U.S. labor market is gaining some traction. Job creation is slowly turning up. We aren’t getting overexcited because once again the government is playing
Digital Currency “ICOs” and the Regulators
Digital Currency “ICOs” and the Regulators Two weeks ago, we wrote an introduction to digital currencies in which we pointed out how fast these new instruments have proliferated. Nearly a thousand are currently available — and almost a hundred more are now listed on coinmarketcap.com than when we ran the