Category Archive: Finance
E Endo Pays $8B For Par Pharmaceuticals To Expand Product Pipeline
Endo Pharmaceuticals (ENDP) has agreed to pay approximately $8 billion to buy Par Pharmaceuticals from private equity firm TPG Capital. With this deal Endo will expand upon its current generic product pipeline. The buyout occurred in both a cash and stock deal, which was approved by the boards of both companies. Endo will pay TPG […]
Daily Recap Of Select Stocks
Looking back at today, the one thing that would stand out is the breakout in the SPY along with a meaningful decline in VXX. Both of these signs say that the market will probably have a small low volume rally for the coming days. I do not expect a runaway move because the volume is […]
Clean Seed Capital: The IPhone Of Agriculture?
TM Editors’ Note: This article discusses a penny stock/microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. In 2009 Abbott Laboratories (ABT) bought out Advanced Medical Optics for $22. AMO was trading at $8.85 before the announcement. This deal represented an acquisition premium of over 200%. If you were presented with a […]
Economist On Gold – A Dissection
A Proven Contrary Indicator In early May, the Economist published an editorial on gold, ominously entitled “Buried”. We wanted to comment on it earlier already, but never seemed to get around to it. It is still worth doing so for a number of reasons. The Economist is a quintessential establishment publication. It occasionally gives lip […]
Week Starts Brightly
With the weekend behind us traders had a chance to digest last week’s gains, and the decision was to keep on going. The Russell 2000 had the best of the action with a 1% gain. The index cleared both 20- and 50-day MAs with resistance up around 1,268 and a chance to challenge the ‘bull […]
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another Day, Another Record Close
The S&P 500 traded close to its opening price for the first 90 minutes of the day and then drifted higher to its modest gain of 0.30%. Another day, another record close for the index … in fact, its third consecutive record close. After 94 market days, the index is up 3.41% for the year, […]
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Pushing Up Against Resistance
The next option expiration for the precious metals on the Comex will be next Tuesday the 26th. Gold is pushing up near overhead resistance. It would be useful if it could break out again ahead of June. Have a pleasant evening.
Finally An Uptrend?
The US equity markets open the week on a positive note as both the Dow and S+P 500 market indices have made a new all time high. There have been numerous failed attempts to break out above this trading range over the last six months as US stocks hover around the break even level for […]
Stop Bleating About Crumbling Infrastructure
The Amtrak tragedy has predictably elicited another round of jawing about the allegedly “disgraceful” condition of America’s “infrastructure”. If Washington only had the courage to spend and borrow itself silly—-why the nation could leap out of its growth and jobs rut in a single bound. Or so goes the claim of mainstream politicians and pundits. A recent jeremiad by […]
J.M. Smuckers – Chart Of The Day
The Chart of the Day belongs to JM Smuckers (NYSE:SJM). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list for the stocks with the highest technical buy signals then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 3/25 the stock gained 3.52%. The J.M. Smucker Company, headquartered in Orrville, Ohio is […]
