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Will Retailers Up The Game Against Amazon With Consolidation?

Will Retailers Up The Game Against Amazon With Consolidation?

Retail is no more constrained to the four walls of its brick-&-mortar existence. Instead, it is rapidly accepting the concepts of an increasingly digitized world as advancing technology and digital transformation are playing key roles in evolving consumer shopping patterns. Consumers now prefer to shop online from the comfort of their homes rather than hopping […]
New Home Sales Down 0.6% In February

New Home Sales Down 0.6% In February

Friday morning’s release of the February New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 618K, down 0.6% month-over-month from a revised 622K in January. The Investing.com forecast was for 623K. Here is the opening from the report: Sales of new single-family houses in February 2018 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 618,000, according […]
Stock Fears Over Margin Debt Hype

Stock Fears Over Margin Debt Hype

Much like mortgage debt is to home prices, equity investor margin debt is to stock prices. With the Dow rising 25% and hitting new record highs every fourth day on average during 2017, borrowings for stock purchases have been hitting new records in tandem. The Fear of excessive margin debt by stock investors causing a […]
Facebook Trading Activity Explodes As Prices Drop

Facebook Trading Activity Explodes As Prices Drop

Facebook (FB) has hit new lows intraday today and assuming the current prices hold will have declined by 2% or more in five of the last six days. That’s fueled an enormous boom in volume and turnover (total value of shares traded). Over the last six trading days, more than $80bn of FB stock has […]
BTC/USD Forex Signal – Monday, March 26

BTC/USD Forex Signal – Monday, March 26

Last Thursday’s signals were not triggered, as there was no bullish price action at $8,800. Today’s BTC/USD Signals Risk 0.75% per trade. Trades must be taken before 5pm Tokyo time, over the next 24-hour period. Short Trades Short entry after a bearish price action reversal on the H1 time frame following the next touch of $8,472 […]
Trade War And Silver CoT – Details And Implications

Trade War And Silver CoT – Details And Implications

Gold soared by the end of the week. Miners didn’t – the HUI didn’t even move above the previous March highs. Silver’s performance was rather mixed, but closer to the one of miners than the one of gold. Why did gold rally? Why didn’t miners rally? How can the silver CoT numbers help in this […]
Cesca Therapeutics Announces Registered Direct Offering

Cesca Therapeutics Announces Registered Direct Offering

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., March 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cesca Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KOOL), a market leader in automated cell processing and point-of-care, autologous cell-based therapies, announced that it has entered into definitive purchase agreements with certain institutional investors to sell in a registered direct offering 609,636 shares of its common stock at a purchase price […]
Chicago Fed: February Sees Pickup In Growth

Chicago Fed: February Sees Pickup In Growth

“Index points to a pickup in economic growth in February .” This is the headline for this morning’s release of the Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index, and here is the opening paragraph from the report: Led by improvements in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) rose to +0.88 in February from +0.02 in January. […]
Facebook Hits 8-Month Lows, Ignores Market Rebound

Facebook Hits 8-Month Lows, Ignores Market Rebound

Despite the interviews and the full-page ads, Zuckerberg and his pals are losing once again as investors continue to aggressively unfriend the social network…   Despite a yuuge rebound in the Nasdaq today, Facebook is tumbling almost 3%…   To its lowest since July 2017…  
Microsoft Has Path To $1T Market Cap, Says Morgan Stanley

Microsoft Has Path To $1T Market Cap, Says Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss said Microsoft’s (MSFT) Public Cloud offering is differentiated from those of cloud giants Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOGL) as it spans from core Infrastructure Services to Platform-as-a-Service capabilities and up the stack to the application layer. This combination of Public Cloud assets paired with Microsoft’s large existing customer base, developer […]