MKM Partners derivatives strategist Jim Strugger told investors Facebook is his best current earnings options trade idea. The call comes right after he won big on his Netflix earnings recommendation earlier this week. Earnings season is among the most volatile times for short-term traders and this one will be no exception with many cult stocks […]
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Call it the crude comeback. Oil is tracking for its second positive month of the year, and with the commodity now up 12 percent from its late June low, technician Scott Redler says we could be witnessing a major turnaround for crude and it could be a key driver for the markets this summer. “What […]
Read moreVerily — formerly Google Life Sciences — began releasing bacteria-infected male mosquitoes in Fresno, California. The release marks the launch of Debug Fresno, a field study that aims to rid the central California county of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Also known as yellow fever mosquitoes, they first arrived in the area in 2013 and are known […]
Read moreSenior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday they wanted to break down barriers to sales of U.S. products to China and secure more U.S. company access to the Chinese economy to rebalance what they say is an unfair trading relationship. At the start of annual summer economic talks between the world’s two largest economies, U.S. […]
Read moreGoldman Sachs owes its poor trading performance this year at least in some part to a slew of wrong-way forecasts about the direction of markets. The first half of 2017 saw Goldman’s strategy team put out wrong calls about dollar and commodity strength and the expectation that government bond yields would be on a strong […]
Read moreOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump deemed NAFTA “the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere” and pledged to redo the whole accord or scrap it altogether. It turns out, though, that Trump seems pretty content with the status quo. On Monday the White House released a 17-page summary of its objectives for renegotiating NAFTA, […]
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Terminally ill British baby Charlie Gard granted US 'legal permanent residency'
The ongoing battle for treatment for Charlie Gard has taken a new turn, with a U.S. amendment being passed Tuesday granting the terminally ill British baby “legal permanent residency,” in the U.S. TWEET Gillian Christensen, press secretary for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, told CNBC via e-mail that: “We are aware of the […]
Read moreShares of Scripps Network Interactive jumped 16 percent as both Discovery Communications and Viacom have reportedly expressed interest in acquiring the lifestyle broadcast company. Interest from Discovery revives a potential deal the two companies scrapped in 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. And Reuters reported that Viacom also recently held talks to buy Scripps. […]
Read moreThe same type of machine learning technology that can automatically organize Google photos might someday be used to prevent sudden death. That’s the vision of Vic Gundotra, chief executive officer of medical technology start-up AliveCor and a former executive at Google. Gundotra announced on Wednesday that his company is teaming up with the Mayo Clinic […]
Read moreSeattle’s rich should engage in upper-class “civil disobedience” and refuse to pay their city taxes, Washington state’s Republican leaders said. After the city of Seattle passed a new income tax on households earning more than $500,000, the Washington State Republican Party called for taxpayers to “forcefully resist” the tax by refusing pay, file or comply […]
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