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AstraZeneca And Takeda Ink Deal To Develop Parkinson’s Drug

AstraZeneca And Takeda Ink Deal To Develop Parkinson’s Drug

AstraZeneca PLC (AZN – Free Report) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese pharma company, have entered into an agreement to jointly develop and commercialize preclinical candidate MEDI1341. In fact, MEDI1341 is an alpha-synuclein antibody being developed for the potential treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The candidate is due to enter phase I studies later this year. While […]
The Great Equity-For-Debt Swap

The Great Equity-For-Debt Swap

There’s been a lot of attention paid to the amount of equity that has been removed from the markets by corporate takeovers and buyback programs. Bloomberg recently put the number at about $5.5 trillion. While it’s true this does reduce the supply of corporate equities in the markets it’s only half of the story. The […]
The Hunt For Survivors In An Amazon-Dominated World

The Hunt For Survivors In An Amazon-Dominated World

It’s been well-documented here… Amazon (AMZN) is a serial killer, and its prey is retailers — ones who never thought of building a moat. Now, I’ll be the first to concede… In the old paradigm, retailers didn’t need to think much about moats: The term “economic moat,” coined and popularized by Warren Buffett, refers to a […]
Has EUR/GBP Peaked?

Has EUR/GBP Peaked?

Despite better than expected inflation and confidence data, the euro extended its losses today below 1.19. There’s some talk that the ECB could opt for a dovish taper next week to avoid driving the euro higher and while it is not clear if they feel this way, the momentum is certainly tilted downwards for the […]
The Main Reason Option Traders Fail

The Main Reason Option Traders Fail

How to trade options and what is the main reason where options traders fail? Video Length: 00:04:59
Real Estate Portfolio Diversification With REITs

Real Estate Portfolio Diversification With REITs

Today’s most prolific investors know it, and it’s about time you did, too: real estate portfolio diversification is a tried and true strategy that no entrepreneur should be without. After all, what separates today’s best investors from the rest of the pack, if not for a propensity towards risk aversion? At the very least, it’s those that […]
EUR/GBP Daily – Reversing?

EUR/GBP Daily – Reversing?

Note the divergence from the 2-year EU-UK yield spread (favoring the UK).  Possibly a key revesal pattern yesterday (doji candle).
E-Mini Surge

E-Mini Surge

The ES has rocketed (which is appropriate, given the missile threats) higher lately, and we’re getting very close to the underbelly of that broken trendline. Umm, if the market wouldn’t mind, this would be a pretty good place to slow down and reverse. Looking at things a bit differently, here is the NQ on an […]
Short Term Momentum And Long Term Reversals Can Coexist

Short Term Momentum And Long Term Reversals Can Coexist

In their seminal 1993 paper, “Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency,” Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman reported significant returns to buying winners and selling losers in the U.S. equity market, now referred to as the “cross-sectional momentum anomaly.”(1) In 1997, Mark Carhart, in his study “On Persistence in Mutual Fund […]
Haven’t Invested In Cryptocurrency Yet? Don’t Worry, You’re Still Very Early To The Party

Haven’t Invested In Cryptocurrency Yet? Don’t Worry, You’re Still Very Early To The Party

Is it too late to invest in cryptocurrency? It’s a question I get all the time. Yesterday, for instance, one came via email from Chaz. Chaz is an old friend. Trained as a software engineer, he’s very tech savvy. He’s already invested in a couple of cryptocurrencies.Now he’s torn. The problem isn’t that his cryptocurrencies […]