According to The Verge, citing a Wall Street Journal report, Google (GOOG) hopes to compete with Amazon (AMZN) by building its own Buy Now style button to let shoppers make one-click purchases right from their search results. Google has long had an e-commerce arm; its Google Shopping product lets you buy merchandise online from some retailers…
You’re living in the moment. You’re working tirelessly on your startup, trying to get it off the ground. But in the back of your mind is that tiny, hopeful thought: Maybe, just maybe, you could sell your company someday. PluggedIn hosted a roundtable during which founders shared their exit stories and advice to fellow entrepreneurs….
“Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. This is not the case. At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost…
I’ve spent a lot of time here and on social media drawing attention to the waning risk appetites in junk bonds and leveraged loans. What I haven’t done is fully explain why I think it’s so important to pay attention to. In short, all of the markets, whether you’re talking about stocks, bonds, commodities or currencies, are all interrelated and…
It’s time to be bold, says Paul Renken, senior geologist and analyst with London-based VSA Capital. He seeks the “sizzle,” or the narrative, in mining equities because the sizzle moves the story. But Renken remains selective and likes to see a significant discovery or acquisition that provides a clear path to investor returns. In this…
From Ruble to Rubble in a Heartbeat The Russian ruble has been in panicked free-fall, not unlike the oil price. Last night the Russian central bank reacted by hiking its interest rates, not in baby steps, but rather in giant strides. This was incidentally the second rate hike in just four days and the fifth…
Today I used Barcharts to sort a list of high growth stocks to find the stock with the most frequent new highs in the last month. At the top of the list was Advanced Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP): Barchart technical indicators: 96% Barchart technical buy signals Trend Spotter buy signal – up 13.74% since the 10/20 buy signal…
“It was the incarnation of blind insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs: it was the Great Butcher — it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.” Upton Sinclair The US stock market was very volatile today, plunging on the open, rallying back to triple digits…
Source: Wikipedia Dear Diary, Dow down 99 points yesterday. Gold fell $28 an ounce – its fourth straight day of losses. Stock markets have been slipping all over the world, especially in Europe. But outside of Russia, and maybe Greece, so far there is no sign of real panic. That will come later. We’re spending this…
In Part Two of my interview with storied hedge fund manager and bestselling author, Jim Rogers, we talk about what Jim calls the “most hated market in the world.” The country’s currency is in free fall. Its president is functionally insane. And the supply glut in oil could tip the populace into chaos. Yet despite the…
