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Biohaven Says Two Phase 3 Clinical Trials For Migraine Met Efficacy Endpoints

Biohaven Says Two Phase 3 Clinical Trials For Migraine Met Efficacy Endpoints

Biohaven Pharmaceutical announced positive top-line results from both of its two Phase 3 clinical trials of rimegepant, an oral CGRP receptor antagonist for the acute treatment of migraine. In each trial, rimegepant met the co-primary efficacy endpoints of superiority to placebo, at two hours post-dose, on pain freedom and freedom from the most bothersome symptom. […]
USD/CAD Weekly Analysis – Monday, March 26

USD/CAD Weekly Analysis – Monday, March 26

USD/CAD extended its downside movement from 1.3124 to as low as 1.2823, facing a key support level at 1.2803. A breakdown below this level would suggest that the uptrend from 1.2247 (Jan 31 low) had completed at 1.3124 already, then deeper decline towards 1.2650 support could be seen. Near-term resistance is at 1.2948, a breakout of this […]
A Normal Person Is Running The Fed – Unfortunately For Him

A Normal Person Is Running The Fed – Unfortunately For Him

Jerome Powell, the new Fed Chairman, made his debut last week. It was jarring to see a modest, reasonable, straight-talking person in that spot after 30 years of aliens from the planet Academic Finance who neither understood nor cared about how actual markets work. I was thinking about posting a short piece on this – […]
EUR/USD: Rebound From The Trend Line

EUR/USD: Rebound From The Trend Line

Previous: On Friday the 23rd of March, trading on the euro closed up. The euro rose against the dollar to reach 1.2372. The catalyst for this movement was the greenback’s decline along with a retreat to safe haven assets (gold, yen, franc) on the back of an escalation in rhetoric over trade between the US and […]
Trade Wars Rock The S&P 500 In Week 3 Of March 2018

Trade Wars Rock The S&P 500 In Week 3 Of March 2018

What a difference a week makes! Last week, we were on very firm ground in noting that President Trump’s proposed tariffs were having very little impact on stock prices, where we closed our weekly observations with the following comment: We’re making a point of noting the major international trade-related headlines, where U.S. President Trump’s planned tariffs are […]
EUR/USD Tests Key Resistance Zone For Bounce Or Breakout

EUR/USD Tests Key Resistance Zone For Bounce Or Breakout

EUR/USD 4 hour The EUR/USD is testing the resistance trend line (red). A bullish break could start a potential wave 3 (blue) of 3 (purple) whereas a break below the support zone (green) could indicate a larger trend change. 1 hour The EUR/USD could be building An ABC correction (green) within wave 2 (blue). A […]
Sensex Trades Marginally Higher; Consumer Durables & Bank Stocks In Green

Sensex Trades Marginally Higher; Consumer Durables & Bank Stocks In Green

Indian share markets are trading just above the dotted line in the noon session following amid mixed global markets. Consumer Durables stocks and bank stocks witness majority of the buying momentum while losses were largely seen in energy stocks and software stocks. The BSE Sensex is trading higher by 93 points and the NSE Nifty is trading up by 9 points. Meanwhile, the BSE Mid Cap index is trading […]
Stocks Outlook – Monday, March 26

Stocks Outlook – Monday, March 26

Thoughts The stock market can fall a little more in the short term. New developments: odds of a trade war are decreasing. Not a long-term bearish factor for the stock market. Initial Claims increased last week but are still trending lower. A medium-long term bullish factor for the U.S. stock market. VIX is in backwardation. […]
Latest Dividend Increases 2018

Latest Dividend Increases 2018

Hey everyone, the year 2018 already gave us dividend investors some decent increases. I will briefly summarize the ones of the companies, which are in my portfolio. Being a dividend investor has two major advantages, first of all, you do not rely that much on the changes of the share price and when the stock […]
Sentiment Snapshot: Technically Bearish

Sentiment Snapshot: Technically Bearish

As a reminder, the weekly survey on Twitter asks respondents their views/positioning on equities and bonds based on whether their view is primarily driven by the “fundamentals” vs “technicals”. It’s important to keep that fact in mind as we go through the latest results. Indeed, the latest results showed “technicals” net-sentiment dropping to the lowest point on […]