Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

8 Silver Stocks to Consider If Gold Isn’t Your Thing

Gold has moved to an all-time high, and many gold miners have rallied in response. But, somewhat quietly, silver stocks have gained as well.A move higher in the underlying commodity no doubt has helped. Indeed, save for a brief move last year, silver trades at its highest level in almost four years. And there's a case that silver stocks should continue to rally and potentially outperform its more valuable and more widely-held counterpart.To be sure, the setup for gold at the moment seems almost perfect. The coronavirus pandemic adds risk worldwide, and can lead investors to the safety of the yellow metal. A ballooning federal deficit, along with interventions by the Federal Reserve, raise the specter of inflation -- another bullish catalyst for gold.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsBut silver and silver stocks, can benefit for similar reasons. Indeed, they have: silver has rallied some 65% from...

Rival parties take aim at Germany's Scholz over Wirecard scandal

Germany's Social Democrat Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is facing calls from rival parties to account for the regulatory failures that led to the collapse of Wirecard after it emerged he knew of concerns about the company 18 months ago. Scholz, seen as the party's best hope to succeed conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel next year, was informed in February 2019 that investigators were looking in "all directions" when regulators banned short-selling of Wirecard's shares, according to a parliamentary report seen by Reuters. While there is no suggestion that Scholz knew of any malpractice, rival parties have suggested the Social Democrats' (SPD) most prominent politician bears responsibility for regulators' failure to spot problems....

Why CrowdStrike Investors Should Be Prepared

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD) has had an epic run this year and has more than tripled off its March novel coronavirus lows. That's not necessarily unusual for a tech stock these days, and particularly not for one based in the cloud. But what's next for CRWD stock, and does this cloud-based security darling still have further to run?Source: GuruFocus.com CRWD Stock: All About the CloudLong before Covid-19 turned the world upside down, the rise of cloud computing was one of the dominant themes of the past two decades. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) essentially invented cloud computing as we know it today in 2006 via its AWS platform, and now it seems that virtually every major enterprise has moved at least part of their computing needs to cloud providers. The software-as-a-service model, in which users essentially rent web-based software as opposed to buying and installing software locally, is also part of this...