Stocks & ETFunds

A futures-based exchange-traded funds based on Bitcoin called the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) started yesterday and I believe it will be a major factor in making the process to invest in Bitcoins considerably easier, safer, and more convenient. Here are 5 reasons why:

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are investments owned by national governments which, if managed responsibly and given a long enough timeframe, can accumulate an enormous amount of assets, and this infographic details the world’s 10 largest SWFs, along with the largest mutual fund and ETF for context.

The graphic below...provides a visual overview of the major sectors that make up the multi-billion dollar psychedelics industry, as well as some of the most active companies that operate within each of them.

 If you are looking for gold companies to invest in, knowing where Eric Sprott is investing is a good place to start and we have done just that, in part, for you, in this article.

10 or so "marijuana" ETFs out there purport to reflect the true state of the marijuana stock sector and the latest ETF from AdvisorShares is no different.

The supposedly first and, supposedly, a "psychedelic" stocks ETF, was launched in the U.S. on May 27th. but it is not a true psychedelic stocks ETF nor is it the world's first psychedelic ETF. This article uncovers what it really is.

Below is a list of the 38 publicly listed gold exploration and mining companies operating within the Atlantic (aka Appalachian) Gold Belt which stretches from South Carolina to the island province of Newfoundland on the eastern coast of Canada. The following list was compiled by Chris Thompson, Director of Equity Research at eResearch.com on behalf of Lorimer Wilson, Managing Editor …

In mining, the safest bets are the royalty and streaming (R&S) companies that don’t actually mine metal themselves but contract with other mines to take part of their future output. Here's why.

Precious metals royalty and streaming companies represent a very interesting sub-industry of the precious metals mining industry. To track the overall performance of the whole sub-industry, I created a capitalization-weighted index (the Precious Metals Royalty and Streaming Index) consisting of 15 companies.

The massive increase in monetary expansion initiated by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the lockdowns imposed to address Covid-19 is clearly a reason to own gold and, in the case of equity investors, gold mining stocks, on a long-term basis.