NuPathe Inc (NASDAQ:PATH) jumped 41.52 percent to $3.25 in the current trading session following the news that Endo Health Solutions is acquiring NuPathe in a deal valued at roughly $105 million. NuPathe shareholders will receive $2.85 for each share that indicates a premium of 24 percent from the stock’s closing price on Friday. PATH has a market capitalization of $101.82 […]
In my experience, one of the singular best investment strategies is to buy assets / asset classes which are most reviled by investors. By reviled, I mean assets where a mere mention of you wanting to invest in them generates nervous sniggers among others, if not howling laughter. Where upon their mention, people hand you business cards, not their own– […]
Using Technical Analysis IndicatorsTechnical analysis is a method of examining past market data to help forecast future price movements. Using different tools, indicators, and charts, traders can spot important price patterns and market trends, and then use that data to anticipate a market’s future performance.Technical analysis is based around a market’s price history, rather than the fundamental data like […]
Tunnel vision is a major risk for stock investors today. As discussed in a recent article, nearly every major asset class beyond the U.S. stock market has struggled in 2013 with many on course to post declines for the year. And the magnitude of stock outperformance this year at over +20% versus all other major investment categories is unprecedented in […]
I’ve been working on gathering my thoughts for the market in 2014. This is a very useful exercise, in that it forces us to really think about what goes into stock prices, what those assumptions should be, and how they interact.There are three key variables here: the growth rate of the economy as a whole and the level and change […]
Back in September, Barclays’ Barry Knapp slapped a 1,900 target for the S&P 500 in 2014.Relative to other global markets the firm covers, Barclays sees U.S. markets offering the lowest near-term return opportunity.”The US market has been the unambiguous leader in this current equity cycle,” noted Barclays in new research. “[W]ith the constraints elsewhere beginning to lift, we think […]
Wikimedia CommonsChewing gum from France’s Haribo factory.Is the stock market a bubble?
Liz Ann Sonders doesn’t think so.”The growing cries that we’ve reached sentiment or valuation extreme worthy of past tops, or a bubble at its bursting point, seems a bit premature,” wrote Sonders recently.While there are warning signs for the economy and the markets, most signs actually suggest that fears […]
Last analysis of Silver was invalidated with downwards movement below 19.595. Members of Elliott Wave Gold were aware of a new alternate for Gold, which also works for Silver. But I did not have time to update the Silver wave count.Downwards movement is incomplete.Click on the charts below to enlarge.Minor wave B is an almost complete zigzag, which is within […]
The aluminum story doesn’t seem to be getting much better (for producers like Alcoa, anyway).MetalMiner’s monthly Aluminum MMI® registered a value of 91 in December, a decrease of 3.2 percent from 94 in November. Three-month aluminum on the London Metal Exchange experienced the biggest drop in the complex, falling yesterday to $1,746 per metric ton, the lowest level we have seen […]
The AUD/USD pair has broken a major reversal pattern- Head & Shoulder on a daily time frame. The price is trading below the 50 day (shown in green) and 100 day (shown in yellow) moving average which means that the bears are in strong control of the price. The pair has pierced the Bollinger band at this level which means that the […]
