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Reuters – Wall Street climbs on Nike, biotech lift

Financial technology startups are getting funding from the very industry they hope to disrupt.Known in short as fintech, these startups are changing the way people pay, lend, and invest, threatening the long-established and entrenched financial systems. In the past couple years, fintech has increased in notoriety among financiers and investors, most notably in London and New York.From investing in growing […]

10 things you need to know before European markets open

Bitcoin vs. Uber: Bitcoin Lovers Respond to Mish by Contributor : Friday 02:40:42 CTCategories: economy, markets, streamI recently commented that it would not surprise me if bitcoin plunged to $1.00. That was not a prediction, it was a comment.Still, I still fee a collapse in bitcoin is likely.For discussion, please see Cash Dinosaur: France Limits Cash Transactions to €1,000, Puts […]

Why Janet Yellen shouldn’t be trading stocks

In case you haven’t heard, suburban malls are on the way out (sorry Paul Blart). Some have become abandoned wastelands popular for ruin porn. Others have been torn down and turned into industrial sites.According to Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and professor at Georgia Tech, there are about 1,200 enclosed malls in the United States, and about one-third of them are […]

Credit Suisse: Here’s the best stock in each sector of the market (MON, HBI, SUNE, ETE, CELG, TDG, IT, FB)

NASDAQ 5000 – Crash? Bubble? Fair Value? by Contributor : Thursday 04:01:29 CTCategories: economy, markets, streamNASDAQ 5000 – Crash? Bubble? Fair Value?March 4, 2015Almost fifteen years ago, on April 1, 2000, we wrote and published a piece entitled “Will the NASDAQ sell-off become a crash?” We have now retrieved that piece from our archives and posted it on our website.In […]

BIOTECH STOCKS ARE ON FIRE | Trading Algorithms with The Fly

The medicine man, for the win.My current biotech holdings consist of NDRM, GILD, AMGN (big pharma), JAZZ, ICPT, SGEN and I own a few hospital names like LPNT and HCA. I am a man of many hats. But I will tell you, this sector isn’t done going higher.Just the other day, this industry was down in the dirt, Hybrid score […]

Halozyme Closes In On A Breakout: A Technical Analysis

View gallery.Stocks have been getting hit pretty hard over the last week. The new year has started off somewhat like 2014 did — down.Some individual industries are holding up a little better than others, such as gold miners, REITs and airlines.Biotech stocks have held on relatively well, too.Biotech names such as Agios Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AGIO) and Incyte Corp (NASDAQ: INCY) […]

It’s Always Paranoiac At the Highs

Is this time different? Is oil down because we just have a shit load of it, or is it because the global economies are sucking at growth so badly that we”ll never have to fire up another factory again?  Does this action portend a vicious black swan that only few can see? Crude has just about been cut in half […]

Buy These Top Ranked ETFs on Solid Biotech Stock Earnings …

Biotech stocks and the related ETFs have been the star performers this year despite some temporary glitches and rough trading in between. Encouraging industry trends, increasing merger and acquisition activities, expansion into emerging markets and ever-increasing health care spending led the sector to easily outperform the broader U.S. equity markets.Though lofty valuations and regulatory concerns did bring in some pain […]

Robert Shiller On The Stock Market – Business Insider

Mark Lennihan/APYale Professor Robert J. Shiller has a new piece examining the market up at The New York Times in which he notes that stocks are indeed expensive:The United States stock market looks very expensive right now. The CAPE ratio, a stock-price measure I helped develop — is hovering at a worrisome level.I wrote with some concern about the high […]

Technical analysis: The implications of a FRIC ban in F1 – F1 news …

Technical analysis: The implications of a FRIC ban in F1By Craig Scarborough
Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 11:45 GMT
Following the British Grand Prix, Formula 1 teams received an FIA technical directive that aims to ban hydraulically interconnected suspension, better known as FRIC.While not coming completely out of the blue, as the FIA had plans in place to ban the system as part […]