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French Presidential Election And Oil Price Fall Impact Global Markets

French Presidential Election And Oil Price Fall Impact Global Markets

Investors were cautious ahead of the first round of the French Presidential elections ending next week. A fall in crude oil prices amidst oversupply concerns also adversely affected Global markets last week. Crude prices fell by 6.4% last week on growing concerns over increasing U.S production affecting OPEC’s attempts to reduce the global oil shortage. […]
Screens Outstrip Content

Screens Outstrip Content

While sales of 4K television sets are spiking, broadcast capabilities are lagging. The irony here is rich. For traditional distributors (cable providers and satellite distributors) to offer higher-quality formats, often they must take on major capital expenditures, upgrading gear throughout the signal chain. For an Over The Top (OTT) provider to offer 4K, all they […]
18 Drugs To Lose Patents In 2017; Could Jeopardize $26.5B For Big Pharma

18 Drugs To Lose Patents In 2017; Could Jeopardize $26.5B For Big Pharma

With 18 branded drugs on the line, patent losses this year could jeopardize $26.5 billion in annual sales from Big Pharma, projected to be the biggest fall-off until at least 2025, according to Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson…Which companies are at risk? [Read on.] Written by Eric Sagonowsky (FiercePharma.com) This year’s potential patent expiry damage is much more daunting than […]
Japanese Yen: No End In Sight For Accommodative Monetary Policy

Japanese Yen: No End In Sight For Accommodative Monetary Policy

Fundamental Forecast for JPY: Bearish The Bank of Japan Governor could not have been clearer: there’s no end in sight for accommodative monetary policy. Japan’s economy is looking healthier but inflation remains benign. Speaking in Washington Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had a simple message: the current pace of quantitative and qualitative easing, or […]
Knife Edge: ECB Readies For Sunday Emergency, One Analyst Says “Keep Your Head”

Knife Edge: ECB Readies For Sunday Emergency, One Analyst Says “Keep Your Head”

There’s a lot to like about what you’ll read at the end of this post from Bloomberg’s Cameron Crise. You’ll note that everything he says has been variously discussed in these pages exhaustively over the past several weeks. There’s the “gridlock” problem, there’s a reminder about how quickly this market has learned to BTFD on potentially destabilizing […]
Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 17 / 2017

Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 17 / 2017

The Top 10 of the Ranking and Rating list for the coming week shows the following stronger currencies being well represented for going long: the JPY (4X) with the GBP(4X). The weaker currencies are the CAD(4X) followed by the AUD(2X) with the EUR(2X). A nice combination for coming week may be e.g: CAD/JPY with the […]
3 Reasons I Prefer Southern Company Over Exelon

3 Reasons I Prefer Southern Company Over Exelon

Utility stocks are a haven for investors seeking reliable dividend income. Utilities became known as “widow and orphan” stocks, meaning they were extremely safe investments. Southern Company (SO) is a very high-quality utility dividend stock. It is a Dividend Achiever, a group of 265 stocks with 10+ years of consecutive dividend increases. Meanwhile, Exelon (EXC) is also […]
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                        Market Briefing For Monday, April 24

E Market Briefing For Monday, April 24

Overwhelming defensive fears combined with weak oil, to deliver Friday defensive, if indecisive, behavior, very much in line with our idea of fake-out nominal moves above the 50-Day. These have minimal sustainability since they are primarily a series of short squeezes, which never warrant the ‘hurry what do we buy’ stock market pitches that come right-back to […]
Uranium Miners Still Bullish Though Close To Breakdown

Uranium Miners Still Bullish Though Close To Breakdown

The uranium space is creating suspension among investors. The most popular uranium mining ETF URA dropped 4.6 percent last week. With that, it breached a major support level, and that could become major news. InvestingHaven has written repeatedly about the importance of 15 points in URA: Uranium miners URA: What happens at $15 has huge implications Uranium miners […]
Central Banks Give “All Clear” To BTFD If French Election Upsets Market

Central Banks Give “All Clear” To BTFD If French Election Upsets Market

Having already ‘dropped’ over one trillion dollars in 2017 to keep reality at bay, it appears the world’s central bankers are not about to let a French election mishap spoil the illusion. Just as central bankers gathered at The BIS’ Basel Tower just says before the Brexit vote , so judging by the statements today, the monetary manipulators stand […]