The market for silver jewelry grew in 2015, mirroring an overall surge in demand for the white metal, according to a survey report released yesterday by the Silver Institute: Silver jewelry sales in the United States were solid in 2015 with 60% of jewelry retailers reporting increased sales, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the…
Pfizer (PFE) and Allergan (AGN) announced that they’re canceling their planned merger because of new tax limitations on inversion deals, and this is apparently hitting the investment banks that were handling the transaction to the tune of $350 million. The merger between the two drug companies was estimated to be the biggest deal ever, and in a…
A string of woes hurt the U.S. market momentum in the first quarter of 2016 with the S&P 500 barely adding gains thanks to global growth issues and persistent worries in the oil patch. Many, including the Republican favorite for president, Donald Trump, believe that the U.S. economy may bump into a recession due to…
Here’s the XLV weekly chart again. It’s closer still to the top channel line. The daily view is kissing the SMA 200. I sold XLV but still hold my fair haired boy, device maker Boston Scientific. This is not to say XLV has to stop here, but the target was 70 and that’s…
During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Central Command asked me to fly a top secret mission to Lebanon in my twin engine Cessna 340. Mission accomplished, I flew home on a 270-degree heading over the Eastern Mediterranean at an altitude of 200 feet, in order to stay under the radar. It was a warm, hazy…
Tesaro (TSRO) shares have risen sharply in early trading today after the company signed a license and collaboration deal with Janssen Biotech (JNJ). Through the agreement, Janssen has secured worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to develop and commercialize poly polymerase (PARP) inhibitor niraparib for the treatment of prostate cancer. According to the terms of the agreement,…
Analysis in Evaluate Energy’s new M&A report shows that Q1 2016 saw the lowest number of newly announced M&A deals in the global upstream oil and gas sector – 157, excluding licensing rounds – take place than at any time during the price downturn. The previous lowest number of deals was recorded a year earlier in Q1…
Verizon (VZ) announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase an approximate 24.5% stake in AwesomenessTV. Upon completion of this transaction, the AwesomenessTV multi-platform media company will be valued at approximately $650M. DreamWorks Animation (DWA), which acquired AwesomenessTV in 2013, will remain the company’s majority stakeholder with an approximate 51% ownership of outstanding shares, while…
Yesterday did a lot of damage to the number of bullish stocks on the Twitter stream. It is causing breadth to roll over. This isn’t the action the bulls want to see. Keep an eye on this chart going forward. If the bullish count continues to fall quickly and the bearish count starts to rise,…
USD/JPY is free falling after already reaching the October 2014 lows. The pair has reached a low of 109.58 below the “line in the sand“. What’s next? The team at SocGen tries to explain: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: On the first of February, just before the BOJ’s bungled attempt to ease monetary policy, the Bloomberg consensus…
