Dumb Investment Of The Week: Commodity Funds
By Ben Strubel : Strubel Investment Management's Dumb Investment of the Week for this week is commodity funds. Commodities are physical products such as corn, oil, or sugar. Commodity investments only used to be a way that Wall Street parted institutional investors from their money, but over the…
Unconventional Thoughts On Best Buy
By The Financial Lexicon : From what I've read and heard in the financial press, there are three predominant thoughts concerning Best Buy ( BBY ): There is a group of people who believe Best Buy is Amazon.com's ( AMZN ) showroom. There are those who believe the recent sell-off represents a…
Global Capital Markets Finding Surer Footing
By Marc Chandler : There continues to be a gradual drift back to the forces that were in play before the drama of the second half of last week. While most Asian bourses were lower, with the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index off almost 0.5%, European markets are higher and the US is called about 0.5% better.…
Winter weather claims 'hit £426m'
Insurance claims following storms and flooding over Christmas and New Year have hit £426m with more expected, an insurers' group says.
Futures rebound after selloff; Apple weighs on tech shares
NEW YORK (Reuters) - S&P 500 index futures rose on Tuesday, rebounding after a steep selloff on Wall Street, but market sentiment was cautious as the Fed was set to begin its two-day policy meeting.
Neuralstem: Sizing Up Potential Key Events Of 2014
By Smith On Stocks : Investment Thesis and Overview Neuralstem's ( CUR ) clinical trial programs and ac companying results for its two key drugs, the neural stem cell product NSI-566 (its lead drug) and its small molecule drug NSI-189, are picking up a good deal of momentum. This year holds…
Crew Energy Trading At 57% Of NAV
By Chris Damas: It has been several years since I have recommended Canadian natural gas stocks in earnest. This is coming from an author who bought Enerplus ( ERF ) when it was a $3 income trust back in the late 1990's. In the aftermath of the 2012 CNOOC/Nexen and Petronas/Progress Energy…
RBS cuts some forex fixings services as global probe continues
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland has told clients it will stop accepting orders for a number of currency fixings, citing an internal review and declining comment on any link to a global inquiry into possible manipulation of the daily benchmarks.
New and improved Google Glass
On Tuesday, Google announced it will add Google Glass options for prescription glasses, its most requested feature since it launched the face-mounted computers last year.
Q4 2013 Danaher Corp Earnings Conference call (Webcast)
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Obama to raise pay for federal contracts
US president will announce in his State of the Union address that the minimum wage for federal contractors will be raised to $10.10 an hour
The Cold Winter Weather Is Making Natural Gas The Hottest Commodity In The Market
By David White : On January 24, 2014, US Nymex natural gas futures closed at $5.182/mmbtu . Later on January 26, 2014 the price hit an intraday high of $5.442/mmbtu before falling sharply to close at $4.847/mmbtu (still the same day futures, but January 27, 2014 in the US). The high is far above the…
Does Accuray's Recent Unusual Bullish Options Activity Signal A Rally In The Stock Soon?
By Scott Matusow : Written by Scott Matusow and Kyle Dennis We typically cover developmental pharmaceutical companies, but this week we want to bring attention to a medical device company which has had recent unusual bullish options trading activity - but does it signal a rally is soon to come in…
Oramed's Data Will Define A New Standard For Diabetes
By Sharon di Stefano: Towards a goal of transforming treatment of a disease that racks up billions of dollars in healthcare costs around the world, Oramed Pharmaceuticals ( ORMP ) took another step forward with the announcement that ORMD-0801, the world's only oral insulin medication, is ready…
Stocks head for a bumpy open
Quarterly results and volatility in emerging markets could set the tone for trading on U.S. markets Tuesday.
Business owners divided on minimum wage
President Obama is expected to push for a federal minimum wage increase in his State of the Union address Tuesday -- and it's likely he'll get a mixed reaction from small business owners.
The state of the minimum wage
President Obama is expected to highlight the minimum wage in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, as pressure mounts in Washington to create a framework to address inequality.
Lloyds Banking Group cuts 1,080 jobs
Lloyds Banking Group plans to axe 1,080 jobs and outsource more than 310 roles as part of a continuing overhaul of the business.
Two cheers for housebuilders
Don't blame Crest Nicholson or the property pornsters for the incipient house price bubble – the real baddies are local councillors
Pfizer beats sales, profit forecasts; shares rise
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc reported better than expected fourth-quarter results, helped by sales of new treatments for cancer, nerve pain and arthritis, sending shares 3 percent higher in premarket trading.
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