Equity Investing

Over the last few months, our team at Investomax have been working hard to deliver breaking news and opinion.  We have analyzed major economies and have identified potential opportunities to earn risk reward returns.  Our approach is global macro, we don’t limit ourselves to North America.  Therefore, we look for profitable investments in all countries.  Once we have identified potential targets we use a Top- Down approach to find key players and potential opportunities within each specific industry. 

From an equity standpoint we strongly recommend you consider the following stocks in your portfolio

3D Printing

3D Printing will change everything from medical implants to how companies manufacture goods. 
Here is how it works

 

3D Systems Corp.  (DDD. NYSE)  
This company has personalized the 3D-printing process. What was once used in large scale prototype manufacturing is now available for home users.  In future years we expect to see this technology in the design of organs such as kidneys. Patient receives 3D printed bladder (starts at 10minutes)

Gold Stocks

With Gold reaching all time highs, gold companies will start production of new mines and engages in M&A.
Senior Gold Companies to consider are
BarrickGold (ABX:TO) and GoldCorp (G.TO)
Potential takeovers to consider are
Nova Gold Resource(NG.NYSE)
Cramer jumped on the bandwagon see clip.

Centamin plc. (CEE.TO)  and St. Andrew Goldfields (SAS.TO)  have very attractive deposits with a relative small market cap.

Canadian US Housing play.

Recent figures have shown that Canadian Housing specifically in the GTA have declined.  August sales are down 64% from last year.  Vancouver is showing greater signs and we expect this trend to continue.  On the flip side, US housing starts have increased due to all time low interest rates.
We recommend going long on US homebuilders ETFs and Short Canadian mortgage companies like Home Capital.
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Weekly Update - September 17, 2012

What a week it was, big announcements from the fed, geo-political tensions grow, and Apple announces its long anticipated iPhone 5

Want to take a closer look? Let’s go!

Step right up folks; Get your stimulus, this one’s going to be big!

First and foremost the biggest news this week was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement of another attempt at stimulating the sluggish American economy, QE3 (the 3rd Quantitative Easing):

Like a toddler on Christmas day, markets have been anxiously anticipating the full details of QE3. Here’s what QE3 entails:

Open market purchases of mortgage backed securities at a rate of $40 Billion per month... Indefinitely! (well, to be clear, until the jobs markets improve substantially as long as inflation stays contained)

Here’s a part of the official Fed. statement:

“If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchase of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability,”

The Fed. also hinted at keep rates (which are already near rock bottom) unchanged until at least mid-2015. Pushing back earlier promises to keep rates unchanged till 2014. Yikes...

Market results for the week:

·        US equities gained on the news of QE3

·        The dollar fell broadly

·        Oil prices rose and gold hit a 6-month high

Although, the key metric from QE3 is yet to be determined... INFLATION! For a more in-depth analysis of QE3-inflation risk and how to keep your investments safe & sound, take a look at the below article:

http://investomax.blogspot.ca/2012/09/inflation-is-always-and-everywhere.html

Dispute over Pacific Islands leads to violence and harms Chinese-Japanese Business relationship:

Oh my, this does not look good. Asia’s two largest economies are amidst a heated territorial battle over Diaoyu/Senkaku islands which is leading to violent attacks on businesses.

What’s this all about? In a nutshell, Japan claims to have purchased these islands for nearly $30 million dollars, China simply does not recognize this purchase and says Japan is stealing these Islands from them. Now there we’re all caught up to speed, let’s talk about what’s happening to business between the nations which last year generated two-way trade of $345 billion.

·        Both Toyota and Honda have claimed that arsonists have badly damaged plants in China. Honda has halted production in China for two days – other car makers have followed as well in halting production in China including Mazda and partner Ford

·        Seven & I Holdings, is said to close 13 Ito Yokado supermarkets and 198 “7-11” convenience stores in China on Tuesday following the violent attacks

·        Tech giants like Panasonic have halted production facilities in China (following an alleged sabotage by Chinese workers), same goes for Cannon and Sony has discouraged all non-essential travel to China

Let’s hope this issue reaches a conclusion soon and business returns to normal. For now though, keep an eye on Japanese depository receipts traded in China and expect sharp loses.

Is it really here?

Yes it is! The moment many geeks and Apple loyalists have been waiting for has finally arrived. The iPhone 5 is here!

And it’s taller than ever! This is big news for the economy as a whole as the iPhone has some quite astonishing affects on GDP; take a look at what some economists are saying about it:

·        The iPhone 5 could inject $3.2 billion to the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter or $12.8 billion at an annual rate

·        0.33-percentage-point boost to GDP

With pre-orders hitting a record high of 2-million units, Apple could be well on it’s to reaching these estimates and further continuing its super-growth phase

That’s all for this week folks, stay tuned for more

                                                                                         

Matthew MacMull