Monkey Darts Bulletins

Stock markets have put in some impressive gains over the last four months. So much so that I’ve recently started to question my own personal scepticism about the recovery. Tough time for bears It’s tough to keep proclaiming impending financial doom when all around...

This week I read a report about a disturbing new project by the Chinese police. It seems that for the last three years, Chinese police have been engaged in a massive project to collect blood samples from thousands of men and boys in cities across the country. They...

When you look at how most businesses are performing, it’s remarkable that the market continues to go up. I’ve been looking at US corporate earnings numbers from one of the go-to data providers, Factset. It studies the revenue companies make and breaks it down to how...

In the last three months, we’ve seen the biggest crash in carbon emissions since records began. No war, recession or previous pandemic has had such a dramatic impact as COVID-19 in just a few short months. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows...

Wait… I thought the selling was over... that the Fed had our backs… But what’s this? Apparently, Mr Market’s not quite ready to be the one-way ticket investors want him to be. So, yesterday he reminded them who’s boss. An 1,861-point, 6.9% sell-off on the Dow...

The biggest story for investors over the last two years was the US-China trade war. Two superpowers vying for supremacy, with knock-on effects rippling around the world. Still, markets shook it all off... and marched on up, as they had since the April 2009. Then the...

I read a thought-provoking piece on risk this week. It was about how a terrible event changed one man’s outlook on life and how he thinks about risk. And it absolutely reinforced something I’ve always known to be true about investing. That is, that you need to...

The legend of Warren Buffett is built on his ability to see what other investors miss. And to sit out on the hot assets other investors are clamouring over. Usually, he turns out to be right... even if people poke fun at him along the way. In the end days of the...

I’ve just watched a fascinating video that I wanted to send on to you. It’s an interview with Dan Morehead, who was very early into crypto, and now runs Pantera Capital, one of the biggest funds in cryptocurrencies In this discussion, Morehead talks about the economic...

When Richard Branson was asked how to become a millionaire, he retorted: ‘There’s really nothing to it. Start as a billionaire and then buy an airline.’ Investing in the “bottomless pit” And everybody’s favourite go-to quote machine on anything stock market related,...

Some good news for you today. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following some of the efforts to find a drug to treat the coronavirus, now being called Sars-CoV-2. And there has been some impressive progress (and potential investment opportunities too). 1. Vaccine...