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The Progress Of Facebook’s 10-Year Masterplan
The Details of Facebook’s 10-Year Masterplan In the company’s first 10 years, Mark Zuckerberg transformed Facebook from a college side-project into a multi-billion dollar platform. Along the way, Zuckerberg was given many opportunities to exit. He was offered $75 million from Viacom in the very early days, and then $1.5 billion later on (including $800 million cash […]
Your Smartphone Helped Disrupt One Of The Biggest Sectors Markets Have Ever Known – Here’s How
In 2015, online apparel sales took the number one spot in total online sales from the computer hardware sector (personal computers and tablets), which had been the undisputed online sales leader for a decade. With the growth of online shopping and increasing online apparel sales starting to explode, it’s no wonder America’s bricks-and-mortar apparel retailers […]
Barclays Upgrades Dish On Potential For Deal With Carriers
The shares of Dish (DISH) are advancing after Barclays upgraded the stock to Overweight from Equal Weight, saying that the company “could emerge as a preferred partner” for “most” of the wireless carriers. DEAL POSSIBILITIES: Sprint (S) could combine with T-Mobile (TMUS),and the combined entity could be forced to make a mobile virtual network available […]
AbbVie’s Humira Revenue Up 15% (Despite Patent Cliff Fears)
AbbVie (ABBV) was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) in 2013. Like many spinoffs, AbbVie has outperformed the overall stock market since inception. Source: YCharts Despite AbbVie’s short history as a publicly-traded security, it has operated for many years as a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. In fact, if the company’s history under Abbott is accounted for, AbbVie is a member […]
USD/CAD – Can Range Highs Hold?
It’s been a rollercoaster ride for loonie this week as Trump Administration put the Northern neighbor trough the wringer, first slapping tariffs on soft lumber, then threatening to pull out of NAFTA. Adding insult to injury has been the lackluster performance of oil as crude slipped below the $50/bbl level. Tomorrow’s Canadian GDP report may […]
VIX Crunch
A video follow-up to my recent column saying a low VIX is not a problem for the market. Actually, a spike down in the VIX has been pretty good under some conditions. Video length: 00:07:13
Dead Cat Bounce Definition: Day Trading Terminology
In trading, dead cat bounce refers to a temporary recovery that happens after a long decline which is usually followed by a downtrend. It can be defined as the chart phenomenon that happens during bearish moves. Basically, it is a long awaited correction from a brutal bearish trend. As a market jargon, it is a […]
What’s Inside Your Multifactor ETF?
Over the past few years, investors and advisors have been presented with a question: Can smart beta be made smarter? Smart beta, as you no doubt know by now, is an investment approach — usually wrapped in an exchange-traded fund — that’s a sort of middle ground between active and passive management. A smart beta fund employs a […]
Buy These 5 Low Leverage Stocks To Secure Your Portfolio
The U.S. stock market seems to be on a high right now on account of the dynamic market conditions that have been prevailing across the globe for the past few days. Two factors – reduced risk of euro dissolution in the wake of market-preferred French election results and hopes for a corporate tax cut by […]
