Overreaching Enthusiasm?
Bullish monetary policy rumblings from China and Europe had kick started a bright opening for markets, but the feel good factor gradually wore off as the day lengthened, and in the end, the day felt oddly bearish. The S&P closed with a bearish inverse hammer on Friday, which could turn into a bearish shooting star […]
Insider Trading Report Edition #231: Notable Buys And Sales
Welcome to edition 231 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying decreased last week with insiders buying $68.12 million of stock compared to $73.83 million in the week prior. Selling increased a little with insiders selling $1.69 billion of stock last week compared to $1.67 billion in the week prior. Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by dividing the total insider […]
OMED Offers Data From Demcizumab; CELG Receives Positive CHMP Opinion For OTEZLA
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMED), a clinical-stage company developing novel therapeutics which target cancer stem cells (CSCs), or tumor-initiating cells, presented data in two posters highlighting the company’s translational research and biomarker efforts for its tarextumab (anti-Notch2/3, OMP-59R5) and demcizumab (anti-DLL4, OMP-21M18) clinical programs. These data were presented at the 26th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular […]
Obama’s Amnesty Further Fractures America
President Obama’s decision to ignore the law by granting de facto amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants brought to America as children and those who are parents of children with legal status was a terribly foolish act. It will only serve to exacerbate racial tensions. Polls indicate the overwhelming majority of whites view illegal immigration as threatening. […]
Output Gap Idiocy; Shaky Accounting EU And US Style
Shaky Accounting EU Style Inquiring minds note that Italy Accuses Brussels of ‘Shaky’ Accounting. That’s certainly not a shocking accusation. “Shaky” is exactly what one should expect when you get a bunch of nannycrats who believe Nirvana is on the horizon if wealth and taxes could be redistributed properly. The irony in this case is that […]
3 Auto Stocks To Buy For Surging Growth In 2015
The majority of U.S. equities have outperformed auto stocks during this most recent bull market. However, economic conditions are picking up for this industry. 2015 looks to book solid growth in both domestic and foreign car sales which will lead the charge in gains for these three stocks Bret Jensen loves to own. Global auto […]
Failure To Deflate: Flat Consumer Prices Only Slightly Help Real Wages, Sales
Guest post by New Deal democrat (from Bonddad blog) Failure to deflate: flat consumer prices only slightly help real wages, sales Usually changes in the inflation rate are all about the price of gasoline. Not in October. Although gas prices fell -6.4% (compared with a decline of -5.0% a year ago), unlike one year ago net […]
Lagging Long Yields
I’m a very intellectually curious person — I could spend most of my time researching investing questions if I had the resources to do that and that alone. This post at the blog will be a little more wonky than most. If you don’t like reading about bonds, Fed Policy, etc., you can skip down […]
Interview: AOL On Going Global, Its Rumored Merger With Yahoo, Emerging Markets & More
While AOL is mostly known for it’s presence and dominance in the US market, trends in the last few years have taken the company across the ocean with global acquisitions throughout Europe and Asia. Earlier this month, Bill Pence, AOL’s CTO came to Israel to promote the company’s new initiative for university relations and its newly formed […]
