|  | | | | | | | | You do not even have to win on a talent competition show like "American Idol" to launch yourself on a path to selling more than eight million albums. | | | | | | (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) | | | | | | Six weeks of unusual U.S. stock market volatility are not dampening longtime market strategist Richard Bernstein's view that share prices will keep rising, even though the nine-year U.S. economic expansion has reached its late stages. | | | | | | Guggenheim Partners Global Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd warned on Monday that the U.S. economy is on a collision course due to excessive corporate debt and said he has prepared by buying higher credit-quality investments. | | | | | | Andrew Left, one of Wall Street's most prominent short-sellers, said Tilray Inc gave his firm its "worst day ever in the market" two months ago when its shares almost doubled in one session, but he remains bearish on the Canadian cannabis company. | | | | | | Dutch cooperative lender Rabobank is exploring the sale of its retail and wealth management operations in the United States in a deal that could top $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. | | | | | | Andrew Left, whose Citron Research has published critical reports on Chinese companies and profited when their shares dropped, is now making a contrarian call by going long on some. | | | | | | (The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) | | | | | | Foreign investors sold Asian equities heavily in October on concerns over slowing earnings, higher U.S. interest rates and trade tensions between the United States and China. | | | | | | CI Investments Inc [CIXCI.UL] slightly boosted its holdings in the world's biggest gold-backed exchange-traded fund during the third quarter, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 13F filing showed on Friday. | | | | | | | | | | | |
