DailyFX US Desk Round Table Recap: French Elections Dominate FX Markets
The US Desk Round Table is a bi-monthly webinar series in which DailyFX analysts discuss the top themes impacting FX markets, and how upcoming events and data might sway those trends. This week, Market Analyst Paul Robinson, Senior Currency Strategist Christopher Vecchio, and Trading Instructor Tyler Yell, CMT gathered to discuss the announcement of snap […]
Weighing The Week Ahead: Time To Rebuild The Wall Of Worry?
As some market worries have been put to rest, there is a growing appetite for new ones. Pundits who say that things look OK are not very exciting. Last week we saw a shift in attention. Despite healthy earnings and good economic data, I expect pundits to be asking: What should investors be worried about? […]
Beijing-Based BeiGene Study Of PD-1 Antibody For Patients With Relapsed Or Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma Underway
Everybody wants their own checkpoint inhibitor, or so it may seem. Now that the biology is thoroughly understood, we’re seeing a second wave of late-stage programs taking shape — each with their own niche markets in mind for disruption – and today, you can add Beijing-based BeiGene (BGNE) to that list. Written by John Carroll […]
Ooma Inc. – Chart Of The Day
Summary 96% technical buy signals 17 new highs and up 24.87% in the last month 5 Wall Street analysts rated it a strong buy The Chart of the Day belongs to Ooma Inc (OOMA). I found the computer communications stock by using Barchart to sort today’s Top Stocks to Own list first by the most frequent number of new highs in […]
French Presidential Election And Oil Price Fall Impact Global Markets
Investors were cautious ahead of the first round of the French Presidential elections ending next week. A fall in crude oil prices amidst oversupply concerns also adversely affected Global markets last week. Crude prices fell by 6.4% last week on growing concerns over increasing U.S production affecting OPEC’s attempts to reduce the global oil shortage. […]
Screens Outstrip Content
While sales of 4K television sets are spiking, broadcast capabilities are lagging. The irony here is rich. For traditional distributors (cable providers and satellite distributors) to offer higher-quality formats, often they must take on major capital expenditures, upgrading gear throughout the signal chain. For an Over The Top (OTT) provider to offer 4K, all they […]
18 Drugs To Lose Patents In 2017; Could Jeopardize $26.5B For Big Pharma
With 18 branded drugs on the line, patent losses this year could jeopardize $26.5 billion in annual sales from Big Pharma, projected to be the biggest fall-off until at least 2025, according to Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson…Which companies are at risk? [Read on.] Written by Eric Sagonowsky (FiercePharma.com) This year’s potential patent expiry damage is much more daunting than […]
Japanese Yen: No End In Sight For Accommodative Monetary Policy
Fundamental Forecast for JPY: Bearish The Bank of Japan Governor could not have been clearer: there’s no end in sight for accommodative monetary policy. Japan’s economy is looking healthier but inflation remains benign. Speaking in Washington Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had a simple message: the current pace of quantitative and qualitative easing, or […]
Knife Edge: ECB Readies For Sunday Emergency, One Analyst Says “Keep Your Head”
There’s a lot to like about what you’ll read at the end of this post from Bloomberg’s Cameron Crise. You’ll note that everything he says has been variously discussed in these pages exhaustively over the past several weeks. There’s the “gridlock” problem, there’s a reminder about how quickly this market has learned to BTFD on potentially destabilizing […]
Forex Ranking, Rating And Score For Week 17 / 2017
The Top 10 of the Ranking and Rating list for the coming week shows the following stronger currencies being well represented for going long: the JPY (4X) with the GBP(4X). The weaker currencies are the CAD(4X) followed by the AUD(2X) with the EUR(2X). A nice combination for coming week may be e.g: CAD/JPY with the […]
