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What Happens To Your U.S. Brokerage Account When You Leave America?

What Happens To Your U.S. Brokerage Account When You Leave America?

The good news is that if you are an American expat, or you are not a U.S. citizen at all, you can still benefit from having a U.S. brokerage account.  WHY HAVE AN AMERICAN BROKERAGE ACCOUNT? There are many reasons to keep your investments inside a U.S. brokerage account. These include: transparency and efficiency, lower […]
Marx, Orwell And State-Cartel Socialism

Marx, Orwell And State-Cartel Socialism

OK, so our collective eyes start glazing over when we see Marx and Orwell in the subject line, but refill your beverage and stay with me on this. We’re going to explore the premise that what’s called “socialism”–yes, Scandinavian-style socialism and its variants–is really nothing more than finance-capital state-cartel elitism that has done a better job of co-opting […]
Inside Bank Earnings

Inside Bank Earnings

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:15 — 7.6MB) DOW – 118 = 20,404 SPX – 4 = 2338 NAS + 13 = 5863 RUT + 5 = 1367 10 Y + .02 = 2.20% OIL – 1.83 = 50.58 GOLD – 8.90 = 1281.30 Energy stocks were under pressure Wednesday as crude-oil prices […]
Will India Maintain Its Tag Of The Fastest Growing Economy?

Will India Maintain Its Tag Of The Fastest Growing Economy?

It seems like Indian stock markets are having the best time of their lives. The Sensex is perched near the 30,000 mark and the results season has just started. Primary markets are also on a spree, with a dozen of IPOs lined up in the upcoming months. The government is also coming up with various measures to scale […]
Q1 Earnings Parade Continues: QCOM, CSX, AXP

Q1 Earnings Parade Continues: QCOM, CSX, AXP

Among a slew of new Q1 earnings reports after the bell today, we focus on a few of the biggest firms in their respective industries: Qualcomm (QCOM – Free Report) , American Express (AXP – Free Report) and CSX Corp. (CSX – Free Report) are among those who’ve hit the tape this afternoon with new earnings, sales and details. Qualcomm, which […]
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                        Where The Current Market Stands Now

E Where The Current Market Stands Now

Below is the QQQ chart that shows where the current technology market stands now. Transaction log that shows the current performance by following the above signals (cumulative profit is highlighted). As you can see, the last BUY signal for QQQ was issued on 10/30/2009. Therefore, although QQQ is currently still under the BUY signal, it should […]
Worth Mentioning Or Not So Much? Bond Bears Get A “Rude Awakening”

Worth Mentioning Or Not So Much? Bond Bears Get A “Rude Awakening”

If you read a lot of Street research (especially of the macro variety) you know that in many cases you get to the end and are left wondering if the analyst actually said anything worth saying. That’s not an attempt to belittle the analysis. It’s often quite good. It’s just that much like a lot […]
Add These 5 Internet Of Things (IoT) Stocks To Your Watch List

Add These 5 Internet Of Things (IoT) Stocks To Your Watch List

The Internet of Things (IoT) term refers to the connection of previously unconnected things to the Internet, so that they can collect data or automate processes, and the IoT market will grow from an installed base of 15.4 billion devices in 2015 to 30.7 billion devices in 2020 and 75.4 billion in 2025 according to […]
Novartis Has Acquired An Exclusive License To Use Parvus Therapeutics’ Platform For Diabetes

Novartis Has Acquired An Exclusive License To Use Parvus Therapeutics’ Platform For Diabetes

The pharma giant’s Novartis (NYSE: NVS) Institute of Biomedical Research now has the exclusive license to use Parvus Therapeutics’ platform for diabetes, coming in with an unspecified package of milestones, an upfront, research support and an equity stake to seal the deal. Written by John Carroll Parvus has been operating for the last few years on about […]
Japanese Trade Surplus Slumps To 14-Month Lows As Exports, Imports Surge

Japanese Trade Surplus Slumps To 14-Month Lows As Exports, Imports Surge

Japanese adjusted trade balance tumbles over 500 billion yen in March (after surging around 500 billion yen in February) as lunar new year effects washed out and left the lowest trade surplus since January 2016. Exports (up 12% YoY) and Imports (up 15.8% YoY) both soared at the fastest pace in years. Japan’s exports expanded for a […]