Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Trends
Our ‘Social Unrest’ trade via Smith & Wesson (SWBI) is up 53.8% since our entry on 27 May and we expect more to come. It was trading as AOBC on entry but changed it’s name back to Smith & Wesson as we outlined in the original article. Our original piece: https://lnkd.in/erzs2xc We pay attention to what […]
Two new positions have been added to The Impartial Lens Portfolio. We opened a long position in American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC) on Wednesday 27 May. From Monday 01 June, the company will change its name back to Smith & Wesson Brands. The new ticker symbol is ‘SWBI’ and will be listed on the NASDAQ. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-outdoor-brands-prepares-spin-200500475.html
The U.S. has the highest levels of gun ownership per capita rate in the world and due to recent events such as the Pandemic and the latest eruption of civil unrest over the past week, we have identified ‘Social Unrest’ as a new investment theme for our portfolio. According to the FBI background check system,
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‘Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Exit stage denial & enter stage anger. We are exiting the denial stage and entering the stage of anger as detailed in Elizabeth Kuubler Ross’s Paradigm of Loss Model in relation to the Covid 19 Pandemic and ensuing economic crisis.
Market Summary: The long and the short of it. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Wuhan coronavirus a “public health emergency of international concern.” The markets took this news as good-bad news. The stock markets, which tumbled on Thursday due to the rising death toll in the world’s second-biggest economy, steadied slightly on Thursday