What causes share prices to move? Are there always sensible reasons, or does the market sometimes dish up crazy things?
There are academic arguments and practical considerations for most things, ranging from dividend signalling through to technical indicators and even the pandemic-era phenomenon that is meme stocks. In this podcast, we covered a number of price catalysts and what they really mean, while touching on things to look out for.
As always, this podcast is a way to share our ideas with listeners and drive debate. It is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial advice. Â
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Magic Markets #240: Omnichannel Observations - The Biggest Trend In Retail
As a follow-on show from the previous week where we talked about how to analyse retailers, we decided to cover the biggest trend right now in the sector: the rise of omnichannel retail. Digital isn't the future, it's the present! Retailers without proper digital strategies are being left behind at an alarming rate.
We touched on global statistics around eCommerce penetration before diving into specific elements of omnichannel retail, including fascinating insights gleaned by our resident ghost in a discussion with Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht after the release of results.
If you're interested in understanding the top-of-mind strategies in the retail sector, this show is for you. Â
As always, this podcast is a way to share our ideas with listeners and drive debate. It is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial advice. Â
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Magic Markets #239: Analysing Retailers
The retail sector isn't just a critical source of employment and consumer goods in every economy in the world. No, it's also a major contributor to stock indices and portfolio strategies that look for strong underpins that can give protection against inflation.
Analysing retailers requires a nuanced approach that includes an understanding of margins, working capital and other balance sheet concepts. With a discussion that includes topics like category-level gross margin and the importance of omnichannel strategies to trading density, this episode of Magic Markets gives a useful overview of some of the key concepts used by professional analysts when they assess retailers.
As always, this podcast is a way to share our ideas with listeners and drive debate. It is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial advice. Â
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Magic Markets #238: Stablecoins with Mesh.Trade
Stablecoins are highly topical at the moment, with important new legislation in the US and many discussions taking place around the world with regulators. But why do they matter so much in the world of blockchain and crypto?
To explain the importance of stablecoins and to talk through critical concepts like yield-bearing stablecoins and the various use cases of this technology, Connie Bloem of Mesh.Trade joined us on this podcast.
We also touched on the recently launched SLVR token that allows investors to gain access to silver, an interesting follow-up the gold product that launched on Mesh.Trade earlier this year.
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not financial or investment advice. Please speak to your personal financial advisor. Mesh Trade SA (Pty) Ltd is a licensed Financial Services Provider (53710) and an Accountable Institution registered with the Financial Intelligence Centre.
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Magic Markets #237: Buying Market Leaders
Stocks like Microsoft, Meta and Netflix have been strong winners in our portfolios (although we've had different exposures to them at different times). These stocks are great case studies to deal with two important questions.
The first relates to letting winners run. How do we think about having long-term vs. tactical positions and potentially trimming them over time?
The second relates to winners in a different context, being stocks in sectors with winner-takes-all or winners-take-most economics. Does this change the way we think about them over time?
As always, this podcast is a way to share our ideas with listeners and drive debate. It is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial advice.
The Finance Ghost and Moe-Knows discuss key market trends across stocks, currencies, fixed income, commodities, macroeconomics and geopolitical trends, helping you understand what's going on out there.
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