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Apache's Depressed Stock Could Double
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:13
After years of missteps, the driller looks like a winning energy play again, given its new gas discoveries and focus on costs.
Oil Prices Could Rise by 35% Later This Year
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:15
A prescient analyst at Citigroup thinks that oil, recently at $44 a barrel, could head to $60 as demand trumps supply.
5 of the best memes from Trump's trip to the G20 Summit
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 16:05
President Trump travelled to Germany to meet with leaders of the G20 and he wasface-to-face with Russia's president Vladimir Putin for the first time since being sworn into office. As with his last trip abroad, people on...
Man vs. Machine: How Has Indexing Changed the Market?
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:20
The active/passive debate has obscured a more pressing concern: What happens to the market as it gets increasingly indexed?
Pimco's Daniel Ivascyn on Staying Ahead of the Fed
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:17
The star bond-fund manager favors emerging market and housing-related debt.
Multifactor ETFs: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:29
Blending factors in an ETF might seem like a solution for investors who don't want to time the market. But it is too soon to tell whether the strategy works.
New Internet Winners: Broadcom, Finisar
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 08:02
The big telecom companies could be left out of the cloud boom, as Google, Amazon, and others build their own networks. Andy Bechtolsheim's outlook.
Amazon-Whole Foods deal was far from 'love at first sight'
New York Post - 8 Jul 2017 04:39
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey may have said the company's first meeting with Amazon was "love at first sight" -- but regulatory filings on Friday paint a more complicated picture. In the weeks leading up to Amazon's $13.7 ...
Strong Jobs Data Quell Slowdown Fears
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 08:00
Manufacturing and services are both showing strength. Plus, the growth of occupational licensing may be hurting employment.
Technical Analysis, Dating, and the Dodgers
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 06:43
How life informs the stock market and vice versa, and a love affair with a baseball team
UBS Chief: We Deserve a Higher Stock Price
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:46
The Swiss bank's booming wealth management group merits a valuation closer to peers like BlackRock.
Wonder Women: Capitalizing on Gender Equality
Barron's - 8 Jul 2017 07:04
Companies that have women in leadership positions actually outperform those that don't.
Wisconsin company rebounds after hitting rough patch
Miami Herald - 8 Jul 2017 16:46
A Wisconsin company is seeing success after facing issues over an attempted move into new office space. Sales of Exact Sciences Corp.'s Cologuard DNA stool test for colorectal cancer are …
Sears says it's turning business around -- but its stores tell a different story (SHLD)
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 16:34
Business Insider/Hayley Peterson Sears says it's in the process of a transformation that will lead the company back to profitability after years of declining sales. But conditions inside some of Sears' stores tell a diff...
China and Japan are largely responsible for cryptocurrency's success
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 06:41
Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images The age ofcryptocurrenciesis upon us, andtwo countries in particularhave been instrumental in their stratospheric rise: China and Japan. Cryptocurrencies have become popular in China due to ...
4 reasons why US arms sales could hit an all-time high this year
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 06:37
Samuel King Jr./US Air Force US weapon sales to foreign nations this fiscal year are on track to equal or blow past the $68.6 billion record set in 2012. In a research note published on Wednesday, Roman Schweizer, a mana...
World Series Hungry Dodgers Are ThreeTrades Away
Forbes - 8 Jul 2017 19:30
If the playoffs started today - and don't you wish they did - the Dodgers would be as ready as any team in baseball. They hit, they pitch, they catch the baseball, they come from behind, and they have that certain someth...
Here's how Trump transferred wealth to his son while avoiding the usual taxes
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 05:16
This story was co-published with The Real Deal. In April 2016, as Donald Trump was on the cusp of clinching the Republican nomination for the White House, he sold two luxury condos near Manhattan’s Central Park for les...
Court upholds $28M judgement against cigarette company
New York Post - 8 Jul 2017 04:44
A federal appeals court has upheld a $28 million judgment against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds in a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut smoker who got cancer. A three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New...
Trump's policies would make America's poor even poorer -- and that's before health care and tax cuts
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 16:35
YouTube Trump’s vaunted "skinny" budget attacks many areas of US social spending, perhaps none more cruel than funding for programs that help the country’s poorest children. His administration is proposing cuts to sc...
Box Office: 'Wonder Woman' Ignores 'Spider-Man,' Crosses $360 Million
Forbes - 8 Jul 2017 16:35
'Wonder Woman' acted like 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' didn't exist with another tiny Friday-to-Friday drop.
Deutsche Bank has made another big hire in tech dealmaking (DB)
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2017 16:21
Flickr/dustpuppy Deutsche Bank has made another big hire focused on dealmaking in the tech sector. The German bank has hired Ed Wehle as global head of technology services, reporting to Mark Keene, global head of tech, m...