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Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
CIBC's chief market technician picks top 10 stocks for June 2025
CIBC Capital Markets chief market technician Sid Mokhtari says his TSX stock picks have handily beat the index on a year-to-date basis, returning 11.4 per cent, versus 5.85 per cent for the border market. For June 2025, his trendspotting matrix process produced a top 10 list including Shopify ( (SHOP), a gold miner, and a space technology firm. Technical analysis generally focuses on trends in a stock's price and volume over time, as opposed to fundamental analysis, using factors like a company's financial statements and economic data. Last month, Mokhtari's top 10 picks returned 4.51 per cent. These included TD Bank ( Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings ( and Constellation Software ( 'The catchy phrase 'sell in May and go away' may have a nice rhyme, but May has been positive in the past five years with better follow-through in July,' Mokhtari wrote in a note to clients earlier this week. 'In other words, dips and consolidations in June could present buying opportunities.' This month, his picks are mainly balanced between the financials, industrials, and materials sectors. Here's the full list from CIBC Capital Markets: Jeff Lagerquist is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow him on Twitter @jefflagerquist. Download the Yahoo Finance app, available for Apple and Android. Sign in to access your portfolio
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Iranian ‘human magnet' man breaks his own Guinness World Record for balancing nearly 100 spoons on his body- Watch video
People have always been intrigued with talent, records, and the limits of human potential, The Guinness World Records continues to be a platform that celebrates and recognises these incredible and the truly unusual. Be it the longest fingernails or people performing mind-bending stunts, such records go beyond conventional ideas of success. But such instances often leave our minds boggling about what else people can do. And sometimes, the answer is truly unexpected and bizarre. While many achievements in the Guinness World Records are about strength, speed, or tolerance, other incidents that get attention are because of their strangeness, making us laugh and wonder at the same time. Recently, a man from Iran has 'magnetically' attracted attention towards him for breaking his own world record, once again. Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari from Iran has done it again. He has broken his own Guinness World Record by balancing as many as 96 spoons on his body! The moment was shared in a video by the official Guinness World Records (GWR) account, with the caption, 'Most spoons balanced on the body 96 by Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari (sic).' In the clip, Mokhtari stands still while someone carefully places spoon after spoon onto his body, which appears to hold them effortlessly in place, and look as if he's defying gravity. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 시원한 미소의 비결? 인천 임플란트 33만원 이벤트 중! 플란치과 더 알아보기 Undo This is his third record in the same category. According to the GWR website, Mokhtari first entered the record books in 2021 by balancing 64 spoons, followed by 85 spoons in 2023, before now reaching 96 in January 2024. Social media reacts The video has gone viral on social media and received many comments from users online. One user commented, 'Natural human magnet spotted ,' while another joked about the logistics of the act, writing, 'Maybe she glued the spoons (sic).' Another playful remark read, 'The real iron man button >>>>>>>>> (sic).' Despite the fun, the dedication behind such a stunt is undeniable. Balancing dozens of metal utensils on one's body requires patience, concentration, and an unusual level of body control,and also a willingness to go viral for something wildly unconventional.
UPI
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Man balances 96 spoons on his body to break his own world record
May 21 (UPI) -- An Iranian man balanced 96 spoons on his body to break a Guinness World Record for the third time. Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari, 54, originally set the record for most spoons balanced on the body at 85 in 2021, and he broke his own record with 88 spoons in 2023. Mokhtari has now broken the record a third time, with a total 96 spoons. The three-time record-breaker said he has been sticking objects to his skin since he was a child. "But after multiple years of practice and effort, I was able to strengthen my talent and develop it to where it is now," he told Guinness World Records. "Anything, I mean it, any object. Anything that has a surface I can stick to my body, such as plastic, glass, fruit, stone, wood and even a fully grown human."
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
CIBC's chief market technician picks 10 stocks for February 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to recast American foreign trade has been a rollercoaster ride for Canadian investors. For those looking to tune out the noise from south of the border, CIBC Capital Markets chief market technician Sid Mokhtari has a top 10 'best ideas' list for investors in February 2025. Technical analysis generally focuses on trends in a stock's price and volume over time, as opposed to fundamental analysis, using factors like a company's financial statements and economic data. Mokhtari says his matrix-process yielded a 3.4 per cent absolute return in January, 14 basis points higher than the S&P/TSX Composite index (^GSPTSE). This month, he says the Canadian stock market's behaviour back in 2018 offers a roadmap for TSX-listed equities. 'In March 2018, President Trump issued tariff orders that subsequently brought about a 16.8 per cent peak-to-trough correction that lasted six months, from July through to December,' he wrote in a research report. 'At the time, energy and consumer cyclicals/discretionary underperformed the most at a rate of 1,200 and 800 basis points (bps), respectively. Defensive and bond-like proxies, staples, telecoms, real estate investment trusts, and utilities, outperformed by 1,300 bps, 1,200 bps, 750 bps, and 600 bps, respectively.' For February 2025, three of Mokhtari's picks are in the financial sector, and two are gold miners. Here's the full list from CIBC Capital Markets: Jeff Lagerquist is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow him on Twitter @jefflagerquist. Download the Yahoo Finance app, available for Apple and Android.
