Victory Capital Rolls Out New Emerging Market ETF
After a string of issues including turmoil in China and global growth slowdown dragging the emerging markets down, a positive shift in sentiment can be seen lately. This trend is validated by the two most popular ETFs – iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) and Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) – climbing over 11% […]
Stocks Soar On Oil Ignition, Biotech Bonanza
In what was shaping up to be a low-volume snoozer of a day, things changed dramatically at 10:30am when the DOE confirmed last night’s API data according to which US crude inventories had their biggest weekly decline since January even as distillates and gasoline stocks rose. That headline sent WTI soaring by 5.4%, the most […]
Market Talk – April 6, 2016
It really felt like a day of two-halves today after a lack-lustre Asian session and a weak European morning. The Nikkei was again a talking point (or at least the JPY was) but Shanghai too saw a bit of volatility as we flirted toward the 3k level early afternoon only to recover by the close. […]
The Safety Net: A 17% Yield That Shouldn’t Cause Panic
Is there any way that a 17% yield could be safe? That’s what we’re going to figure out as we look at Williams Partners (NYSE: WPZ), a beaten-up MLP whose stock has fallen hard as a result of plunging oil and gas prices. Williams Partners operates pipelines in the United States’ most gas-rich areas, including the Eagle […]
Alder BioPharmaceuticals Announces Commencement Of Public Offering Of Common Stock
BOTHELL, Wash., April 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALDR) , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, $100 million of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. In connection with this offering, Alder expects to grant the underwriters a […]
S&P 500 Snapshot: Erasing Yesterday’s Selloff
Our benchmark S&P 500 erased yesterday’s entire -1.01% slump, the worst selloff in 19 sessions, with today’s 1.05% gain. The index, however, is still down 0.30% for the week at the close of the mid-week session. The S&P 500 rallied at the open, gave back some of the gains with the 2 PM ET release […]
Labor Strikes In China
The China Labour Bulletin website provides maps displaying incidents of labour strikes that have occurred in recent years. While of course these should be viewed with a hefty grain of salt, they may be worth scrutinizing all the same. This image below shows the number of strikes in general that have occurred since 2011; as you can […]
As If We Needed It, Asian ‘Dollar’ Might Be More Complicated, Too
A few weeks back, on March 18, the Japanese government bond market was hit with a “buying panic” of some noteworthy proportion. Yields all across the curve dropped, which takes some doing since yields were already at that point mostly negative. Common sense forces any sane person to wonder if sanity itself remains relevant to global […]
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Grifters, Conmen, And Grafters
“What good is it, brethren, if someone claims to have faith but does not perform acts of love? Can this kind of faith save them? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go with God, keep warm and eat well,’ but do not help them at […]
End Of Forex Exchange Fees Via Bitcoin-Like App? What’s The Downside?
Trading dollars for euros, Yen, Icelandic króna, or any other currencies typically involves hefty conversion fees. Those fees soar at airport currency exchange counters. A new Goldman-Barclays app that uses the Bitcoin blockchain algorithm may reduce or eliminate those exchange fees. When that happens, currency exchange counters, now common all over Europe will soon vanish. […]
