Category Archive: Finance
Optical Names Follow Ciena Lower As North American Equipment Spending Slows
Shares of companies in the optical component sector, including Finisar (FNSR) and Oclaro (OCLR), are following Ciena (CIEN) lower on Thursday. Ciena offered up a gloomy view of the fourth quarter earlier today, despite reporting better than expected fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue. The declines are especially notable as the broader tech sector is rallying […]
Nemaska Lithium Inc.: A Good Candidate For Investing In The Lithium Space
TM editors note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Written by SmallCapPower.com Nemaska Lithium Inc. (NMKEF) has proprietary technology to produce low-cost, high-grade lithium carbonates and hydroxides which gives it a leading advantage over its peers and, given the surging demand for […]
Soros’ Worst Trade
There is this Canadian rock star who retired a few years back and took up hosting an afternoon drive-home radio show on a local Toronto station. Sometimes his program includes a segment called, “Damn! I wish I wrote that.” This ex-rock star will play a famous song on his guitar, tell the story of how it came […]
Teva’s Drug Austedo FDA Nod For Label Expansion In Dyskinesia
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA – Free Report) announced that the FDA has approved a label expansion for its drug, Austedo. With the latest FDA approval, Austedo’s label has been expanded to include treatment of tardive dyskinesia, a debilitating and often irreversible movement disorder. We remind investors that Austedo was approved for treating chorea associated with Huntington’s disease […]
Investors Return: U.S. Silver Eagle Sales Surge Over The Past Two Days
While interest and sentiment in the precious metals have been depressed compared to the preceding month, this all changed during the past few days. This trend change is particularly the case for silver. Even though Silver Eagle sales have been much weaker this year, positive signs show that investors still believe in acquiring the shiny […]
Visualizing GDP: An Inside Look At The Q2 Second Estimate
Note: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include the Q2 2017 Second Estimate released yesterday. The chart below is a way to visualize real GDP change since 2007. It uses a stacked column chart to segment the four major components of GDP with a dashed line overlay to show the sum of the […]
Irma To Become A Major Hurricane Shortly, But Energy Markets Rightly Focus Elsewhere
The tropics certainly are active right now. Yesterday we had Tropical Storm Irma form, and now today it is already a hurricane. The storm is still forecast to take a rather unusual west-southwest track across the Atlantic, and this puts the United States at an elevated risk of landfall as it is less likely that […]
Emulating Endowments With ETFs
ETF.com posted an interview with Hossein Kazemi from Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association who did a study that concluded that small and medium sized endowments can effectively compete with the larger endowments by using ETFs to replicate the non-market based alternative strategies that funds like Harvard and Yale are known for and getting very similar return streams […]
Looming American Debt Ceiling Crisis
The U.S. government is getting closer and closer to running out of cash… for real this time. The government has until the end of September to raise the U.S. debt ceiling – that is, the total amount the government is allowed to borrow. Otherwise, it won’t be able to pay its bills. The U.S. government […]
