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Barclays Sees Disney Becoming ‘Core Holding’ Again, Upgrades To Overweight
Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar upgraded Disney to Overweight from Equal Weight and raised his price target for the shares to $130 from $105. The shares closed yesterday down 91c to $116.18. The stock is likely to become a “core holding” again, Venkateshwar tells investors in a research note partially titled “The Force Awakens.” While almost […]
Book Review: D’Aveni, The Pan-Industrial Revolution
Richard D’Aveni, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, has set forth a bold hypothesis. As 3-D printing or, more generally, additive manufacturing (AM) becomes increasingly sophisticated, manufacturing will be transformed and pan-industrial companies will come to dominate the world economy. At the moment, although investors certainly haven’t bought into this story, among the […]
Guide To E-Commerce ETFs
Brick-and-mortar retailers have been facing constant threats from digitalization. The surge in web-based shopping is severely affecting sales at departmental stores, resulting in store closures and filings of bankruptcy. Over the past decade, worldwide e-commerce has been growing at an average rate of 20% a year, according to Economist. As of now, online retail sales make up […]
USDJPY Weekly Analysis – Sunday, Oct. 21
USDJPY stays in a rising price channel on the daily chart, suggesting that the pair remains in the uptrend from 104.63. As long as the channel support holds, the uptrend could be expected to continue and another rise towards 115.50 is possible after the consolidation. Only a clear break below the channel support could signal […]
Crude Oil Joins Macro Headlines For Busy October As Stockpiles Build
Fundamental Forecast for : Bullish FUNDAMENTAL CRUDE OIL PRICE TALKING POINTS: The ONE Thing: Crude is looking at the second week of losses after four-year highs were traded at earlier this week and massive inventory gains in the US look to show demand may be waning alongside a miss in Chinese GDP data. Does two make a trend? […]
Adding To Merkel’s Woes: SPD’s Collapse In Germany, Greens The New Left Darlings
Support for Merkel’s coalition partner SPD is in a state of collapse. And it’s not just a single poll. Greens the Big Beneficiary in SPD Collapse Support for Merkel’s coalition partner SPD is in a state of collapse. Four consecutive polls have SPD at 14%. The Green party is at 21% in the latest poll […]
Self Sufficiency Over Adversity
Shane Parrish tweeted out the following quote; “Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.” — Richie Norton The term intentional living is a little buzzwordy versus just saying that living the life you want is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us. This is a […]
Three Easy Fixes To Social Security And Medicare
Video length 00:03:25 Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are among the most popular of all federal programs. Besides, most Americans have been paying into them their whole working lives, and depend on them. So how will Republicans attempt to end these […]
The Latest In Crypto
Crypto News & Analysis International Business Machines (IBM) has scheduled a demonstration of their own version of a blockchain based, global transfer, rapid payment platform. They have named it ‘The Blockchain World Wire'(BWW). Unlike Ripple’s xRapid platform, IBM’s system can handle cross border transactions with any cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange. Whereas it has […]
