Investors are flocking to the shiny yellow metal in droves. Will the rally continue?
Read MoreWhile oil prices wallow in a bear market and stocks continue to whipsaw, gold has been the stealth winner of June so far. Prices for the yellow metal have recently surged toward their highest level in more than three months, with that rally continuing during Thursday’s session. As a market, gold is hardly discussed since […]
Read MoreTrade Setup Buy Target $2.80 Sell Target 1 $3.34 Trailing Stop 20% Sell Target 2 $3.72 Agenus Inc., a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, focuses on the discovery and development of therapies that engage the body’s immune system to fight cancer. The company offers Retrocyte Display, an antibody discovery platform for the identification of fully-human and humanized […]
Read MoreNo. 5: Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY) The Houston-based oil producer and recent bidding-war winner for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) saw its stock drop 4.55% during Wednesday’s session, going from $49.69 at the previous close to $47.43. That’s the lowest level in more than 10 years and continues an abysmal 44.5% selloff over the last 12 […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest challenges for most investors, no matter what your preferred investing strategy actually is, is being able to see past all of the latest news and market buzz to identify where the real opportunities lie. Politics, current events and “the next big thing” often tend to get in the way, prompting average […]
Read MoreU.S. oil prices have been on a downward spiral recently, and Wednesday’s session perpetuated that dismal narrative. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the domestic price benchmark for crude oil – logged its worst close since January and therefore one of the worst closes of 2019. Investors became particularly panicked when Wednesday’s enormous loss officially put […]
Read MoreU.S. stocks received a much-needed shot of life during Tuesday’s session when all three major domestic indexes scored their second best gain of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both climbed 2.1%, while the Nasdaq roared 2.7% higher, reversing the tech-centric index’s abysmal 1.6% loss Monday that saw it near correction […]
Read MoreOver the last month the market has been rattled by heightened geopolitical tensions from trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, and in the last week Mexico as well. This week the market has rebounded a bit, with the market moving upward in a big way yesterday on speculation that a deal with Mexico could […]
Read MoreThe tech- and pharma-centric Nasdaq index has certainly endured volatility recently, but there’s no denying it’s experienced a stunning overall rally this year. While it has dropped 6.1% over the last month to the lowest levels since March, it’s still up a strong 15% since the last close of 2018 and up 16.4% from the […]
Read MoreTrade Setup Buy Target $1.37 Sell Target 1 $1.62 Trailing Stop 20% Sell Target 2 $1.79 Vertex Energy, Inc., an environmental services company, provides a range of services designed to aggregate, process, and recycle industrial and commercial waste systems in the Gulf Coast and Central Midwest regions of the United States. The company operates in […]
Read MoreBitcoin has been dominating headlines and turning heads over the last month as it experiences one of its best rallies since 2017. The cryptocurrency logged double-digit gains in the month of May, and investors are left wondering exactly why it’s experiencing momentum after more than a year of heavy losses. Here’s what investors need to […]
Read MoreTechnology has been one of the stock market’s top-performing sectors this year, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq index continues to outperform both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. While the S&P and Dow are respectively up only 9.9% and 6.6% since the end of 2018, the Nasdaq has climbed a sizable 12.2%. Much of […]
Read MoreThe thing that is exciting about many of the stocks that have come to be referred to as “Gig Economy” stocks, and that understandably draws in average investors as well as seasoned market veterans, is that many of these companies make their mark by introducing the world to a new way to use technology in […]
Read MoreIf you’re old enough to remember the 1990’s, you probably remember the nascent years of the Internet and the World Wide Web. As businesses began to realize the commercial opportunities that it offered, online businesses of seemingly every type were springing up. The wave of invention and innovation that period fueled impressive growth in the […]
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