Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Insmed Inc. Stock Skyrocketed
Insmed Inc. Stock (INSM) Skyrocketed by a staggering 120% higher recently. According to Nasdaq.com, the Insmed Inc. stock advanced more than double in the pre-market trading after the company announced that its new drug, an inhaled antibiotic known as Alis, successfully treated patients with a rare lung disease. More specifically: Alis met the main goal […]
Home Improvement Centers Scramble To Help Hurricane Victims
Home Depot (HD) is the one of world’s largest home improvement retailer. The company offers a level of service unprecedented among warehouse-style retailers. Home Depot stores cater to do-it-yourselfers, as well as home improvement, construction and building maintenance professionals. The Home Depot currently operates in the USA, Canada, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. The company […]
Recent Investment September: General Electric
Hello everyone, as I wrote in my article about General Electric (GE) a couple of days ago I am seeing a potential buy in this stock in the next couple of days. So I finally did invest some money in that company. For me, it is a good investment at the moment although future growth […]
Amazon’s Biggest Acquisitions
Published in 2013, Brad Stone’s book The Everything Store paints an ambitious and relentless portrait of Jeff Bezos, a man who is determined to create an online store that will someday be “everything to everyone”. As prescient as this characterization was at the time, the narrative is even more relevant now – and with Amazon’s most recent […]
Cloudera Makes A Comeback
Photo Credit: techmsg/Flickr.com Big Data vendor and Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) went public earlier this year. Earlier this summer, the company announced its first quarter results after it went public. But the earnings miss did not please the market and the stock fell nearly 30%. Tables appear to have turned with the second quarter […]
E Markets Performance In September Has Been Turbulent
Recent market price weakness comes as investors are grappling with the increasing geopolitical threat from North Korea and powerful Atlantic storms barreling toward the U.S. Jeff Hirsch in a recent issue of the Almanac Trader published the chart below and discusses how over the last 21 years the market’s performance in September has been turbulent. […]
Teva Rallies After Finding Experienced CEO, But Not Astra’s, To Take Over
Shares of Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA) surged in morning trading after naming a permanent chief executive officer, ending a monthlslong search for a new chief. The new CEO brings 30 years of global pharmaceutical and healthcare experience. CEO APPOINTMENT: Teva this morning said that it has named named Kare Schultz to be its new president and […]
We Didn’t Start The Fire
What should long-duration common stock owners like us do with the news of the horrific flood in Texas, the Category 5 hurricane in the Caribbean, the heightened tensions created by North Korea’s Dictator, Kim Jong-un, and the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Southern Mexico? What is wise behavior in a more volatile stock market environment created […]
Are CTAs Behind The Bond Rally
Well, anyone who was frustrated with 10Y yields closing in on a 1 handle is likely a little less irritated on Monday. The broad risk-on move now has yields up some 7bps on 10s, although in the grand scheme of things, 2.12 and change probably isn’t what everyone had in mind in January when “short […]
