Investing

The next five years will be challenging, and investors need to have their eyes wide open. Here's why and how to invest accordingly.

As Baby Boomers exit the workforce and increasingly move into retirement, this monumental demographic shift will exert enormous pressure on interest rates, bond prices, and equity market valuations. It’s going to be a huge wakeup call.

Swiss-based mega bank UBS, updated its Global Real Estate Bubble Index. The index, looks for cities that experience price climbs that disconnect from fundamentals. Topping the list this year is Toronto, and in fourth place is Vancouver. San Francisco is in 10th. Let’s take a look at the bubble factors they’re observing.

the time is now to diversify into gold. All markets cycle, and a down-cycle for stocks and an upcycle for precious metals is on the doorstep. Take some of your profits and buy some undervalued gold.

As the next crisis erupts, the mainstream media is going to respond with shock and horror but the only real surprise is that this ridiculous bubble lasted for as long as it did. The truth is that a market decline is way overdue.

Some basic math shows that the coming electric car boom will create a super boom in copper demand. In 2016, EVs made up 1.6% of the total U.S. car market and it is expected that EVs will make up 4% by 2021 and - get this - by 2030, the adoption of EVs in the U.S. will be 34%. What does that mean for copper demand?

Today, we look at valuations for four Canadian gold stocks that have declined an average of 24.45% YTD, considerably underperforming their respective benchmarks over the same period.

Right now most people seem to have been lulled into a false sense of security, and they truly believe that everything is going to be okay but every time before when the market has looked like this, a crash has always followed, and this time will be no exception.

We have identified four Canadian copper stocks that have declined 9.3% on average, underperforming their benchmark Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX) which has only declined 6.4%. In addition, the stocks covered trade at Forward Price to Cash Flow Ratios (NTM) well below their peer average of 5.31x.

Valuations and sentiment play into future stock market returns...as valuations indicate what people are willing to pay for a dollar of earnings. During times of exuberance, investors overpay for earnings and, during times of fear, investors underpay for earnings. Currently, two measures of sentiment are sending cautionary signals that 2018 may not be as strong of a year.