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Wells Fargo: Hitch The Wagon And Ride On Up

Wells Fargo: Hitch The Wagon And Ride On Up

If there is one company that is being punished lately, it is Wells Fargo (WFC). The bank was plagued last year with a massive consumer scandal that caused investor panic and dissension and the eventual removal of the CEO. It’s been a tough road back, but the stock recently peaked at all-time highs. It has […]
How To Fix The Most Demoralizing Thing About Trading

How To Fix The Most Demoralizing Thing About Trading

What the most demoralizing thing about trading? Losing. Losing is by far the most demoralizing aspect of trading for anyone who tries it for longer than a week. Rookie traders sometimes catch a burst of beginners luck and will make five, ten, twenty winning trades in a row — which is just about the worst […]
Better Big Pharma Dividend Stock: Pfizer Or Teva?

Better Big Pharma Dividend Stock: Pfizer Or Teva?

Investors can count on the health care sector for dividends. Pfizer (PFE) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) have dividend yields of 3.8% and 4.2%, respectively. Their dividend track records are spotty: Pfizer cut its dividend by 50% in 2009, and Teva hasn’t raised its dividend since 2015. That said, Pfizer, it has raised its dividend each […]
REIT Pair Trade: Long Prologis And Short Simon Property Group

REIT Pair Trade: Long Prologis And Short Simon Property Group

Summary: REIT Pair Trade With more shoppers turning to online avenues, we expect brick and mortar shopping malls will continue to lose relevance and value. At the same time, companies are increasingly eager to compete with Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) by offering fast shipping. To do so they are leasing logistics centers and warehouses near cities and busy […]
EUR/NZD Into Resistance- Pullback To Offer Entries

EUR/NZD Into Resistance- Pullback To Offer Entries

EURNZD Daily Technical Outlook: EURNZD rebounded off confluence support earlier this week at 1.5122 where the 38.2% retracement of the 2017 range converges on down-slope support. The rally is now testing initial resistance at the trendline extending off the yearly high. The broader focus for the pair remains weighted to the topside while above the 1.50-handle (bullish invalidation) with […]
Sunshine Heart Announces Pricing Of $8.0 Million Underwritten Public Offering

Sunshine Heart Announces Pricing Of $8.0 Million Underwritten Public Offering

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sunshine Heart, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSH) announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of units for gross proceeds of $8.0 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by Sunshine Heart. The offering is comprised of Class A Units, priced at a […]
Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. Shares Climb Up On Announcement Of Merger

Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. Shares Climb Up On Announcement Of Merger

Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. (NVLS), a pharmaceutical company yesterday announced a merger with Alpine Immune Sciences. The post merger company will be based in Seattle and is expected to close during the third quarter of this year. Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. CEO’s Comments “We believe this transaction with Alpine is an exciting path forward to advance important […]
Forex Forecast For EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY – Wednesday, April 19

Forex Forecast For EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY – Wednesday, April 19

Forecast for the EUR/USD currency pair Technical indicators of the currency pair: Prev Opening: 1.06419 Opening: 1.07305 Chg. % Of the last day: +0.86 Daily range: 1.07127 – 1.07348 52-week range: 1.0366 – 1.1616 Yesterday, the US dollar weakened against the world currencies. This is due to the publication of a rather weak statistics on […]
Building Modern Portfolios – Three Ways To Generate Alpha

Building Modern Portfolios – Three Ways To Generate Alpha

In case you missed the first two segments of this series, the topic at hand is how to go about developing portfolios designed to outperform in today’s modern markets. More specifically, how does a manager attempt to provide outperformance in a world where trading is done at the speed of light and asset class correlations […]
Rubber Seoul

Rubber Seoul

OK, the pun doesn’t really work, because Seoul is in Korea, but it’s all I could come up with at this hour. Anyway, the point is that the USD/JPY is pretty badly stretched to the downside, and thus has ample room to push higher, even within the context of a general downtrend. It’s already happening […]