Author Archives: Darren Marchal

When Good Things Happen To Good Companies

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Sometimes good news hits the tape and investors ignore it. To be fair, investors in the TSXV have been pounded for nearly 4 years. Retail investors are now the experts, not sell-side analysts…

PayPal Valued Higher Than EBay During First Day Of Trading

PayPal (PYPL) has officially severed its relationship with eBay Inc. (EBAY – Analyst Report) and is currently trading independently on the Nasdaq. Despite the varying reports of PayPal’s market capitalization value ranging from $46.6 billion to $52 billion, the digital payment company would still have a greater market capitalization than of eBay, whose value will…

EC Is Gold A S

Greece defaulted at the end of June, and metals investors expected higher prices in July. What we expected isn’t what we got. It isn’t the first or last time markets surprised investors. Do lower spot prices mean precious metals are failing as a safe-haven investment? Jason Zweig, from the Wall Street Journal, thinks so. He’s…

EC Muni Closed

“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton In the conclusion of our earlier article titled “What deadly summers, Sandy Koufax and lucky golfers can tell us about bonds” we wrote: “Deflationary forces around the globe are legion.  Despite the battalion of seemingly gargantuan efforts…