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Venezuela Seizes General Motors Car Plant

Venezuela Seizes General Motors Car Plant

While the US has a habit of invading or attacking sovereign nations any time the president’s approval rating dips below a certain threshold, Venezuela has a similar, if less dramatic mechanism to provide a brief boost to Maduro’s popularity: it nationalizes foreign plants on its soil. It did so last July when the country was once […]
Travelers (TRV) Q1 Earnings Miss, Revenues Beat Estimates

Travelers (TRV) Q1 Earnings Miss, Revenues Beat Estimates

New York based The Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV – Free Report) is one of the leading writer of auto and homeowners’ insurance through independent agents as well as writer of commercial U.S. property-casualty insurance. Travelers’ impressive inorganic growth story bodes well for long-term growth. While its prudent acquisitions help to expand in the attractive and growing market place […]
Silver Prices Slide Lower- Support Targets View

Silver Prices Slide Lower- Support Targets View

Silver Daily Technical Outlook: Silver prices have continued to trade within the confines of an impressive, well-defined ascending pitchfork formation extending off the November / December lows. The precious metal failed to hold above key resistance this week on building bearish divergence at 18.33/37 – a region defined by the 50% retracement of the July decline & the […]
How To Outperform – It Starts With…

How To Outperform – It Starts With…

With the stock market waiting on both earnings and the economy to improve in order to justify current valuation levels, it would appear that traders are basically trying to decide which way to go from here. (IMO, a meaningful break below 2320 would embolden the bears while a move above 2400 would reinvigorate the bulls.) […]
The World’s Most Expensive Drug ($1,210,000/dose) From UniQure B.V. Will Soon Become Extinct

The World’s Most Expensive Drug ($1,210,000/dose) From UniQure B.V. Will Soon Become Extinct

Written by John Carroll UniQure B.V. (QURE) announced this morning that it has decided not to seek the re-authorization authority that would have been required to keep this drug on the market past October. After bypassing the FDA as a lost cause and seeing only one reported use of the gene therapy in Europe, which provided a […]
Select Comfort Corporation Shares Pop On Excellent Q1 Results

Select Comfort Corporation Shares Pop On Excellent Q1 Results

Select Comfort Corporation (SCSS), a company that designs, manufactures, markets, retails sleep number beds yesterday reported their first quarter 2017 financial results. Select Comfort reported first-quarter earnings of $0.56 per share which beat analyst expectations of $0.46 per share. Select Comfort reported first quarter revenues of $393.9 million which beat analyst expectations of $370.2 million. […]
Watch List Stocks: WY, IPG And BG

Watch List Stocks: WY, IPG And BG

Watch list stocks to trade Long Weyerhaeuser (WY) Long Interpublic Group of Cos (IPG) Short Bunge (BG)
Forex Forecast For EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY – Thursday, April 20

Forex Forecast For EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY – Thursday, April 20

Forecast for the EUR/USD currency pair Technical indicators of the currency pair: Prev Opening: 1.07305 Opening: 1.07114 Chg. % of the last day: -0.21 Daily range: 1.07078 – 1.07475 52-week range: 1.0366 – 1.1616 Yesterday, the correction was observed on EUR/USD. At the same time, the price kept a round level of 1.07000, which caused […]
IBM Still Awaits Benefits Of The Turnaround

IBM Still Awaits Benefits Of The Turnaround

For the first time in the last five quarters, IBM (NYSE: IBM) missed revenue expectations for the quarter. The market is understandably unhappy, and the stock has plunged more than 5% in the after-hours trading session. IBM’s Financials This was also the 20th consecutive quarter that IBM posted a revenue decline. Revenues for the first quarter […]
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                        PAG: Growth, Value And Dividend Growth Hiding In Plain Sight

EC PAG: Growth, Value And Dividend Growth Hiding In Plain Sight

Introduction Finding attractive investments in the dividend growth space has become a real challenge in today’s overheated market. This is especially true if you limit yourself to looking in the obvious places. Simply stated, you won’t find any bargains today in the Procter & Gambles, Johnson & Johnson’s and Coca-Colas. In other words, the flight […]