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
April 6, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Don’t look now, but we are seeing some decent signs of a recovery in the Energy sector and commodities more generally. Crude prices jumped today on news of a diminishing US stockpile. Of course, given the fact that last week
We had nearly a 5 Million drawdown in Oil Inventories during what is technically still the building season for oil stocks. (Video length 00:14:35)
