On June 4, German drugmaker Bayer announced it would retire the Monsanto name upon closing its acquisition of the company, taking its products under Bayer’s portfolio. The merger, which received regulatory approval on May 29, is set to close on June 7 and will be the biggest outbound merger by a German company since Daimler-Benz bought…
On May 30, the US Federal Reserve unveiled proposed changes to the compliance requirements of the Volcker Rule, one of the foundational pillars of the Dodd-Frank Act that was put in place in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Critics see the move as a continuation of the Trump administration’s undoing of measures put in place…
New Zealand is a small country with a population of under 5 million people. The country is located to Southwestern Pacific Ocean and is made up of two main islands. It has a GDP of more than 185 million people and a GDP per capita of more than $35,000. The country is best known as…
Although the media reports that they spend much of their free time killing things, two-thirds of millennials appear to be unable to fully capitalize on their natural killer instincts enough to take on the risks of investing in the stock market to increase their wealth outside of having a job. Whether that’s because their parents failed to teach…
For today’s daily update, we’re gonna use a bit of surfing slang where appropriate. Feel free to play along, with your legend at this link brah. Today’s Highlights Inside Outside Dinged but not Licked (Gold) EOS Registration Traditional Market Looks like Kim Jong Un pulled a 180 yesterday as he announced that North Korea is pulling out of talks…
It may sound like a contradiction, but the best way to get where you want to go in the trade – meaning profit – is to stop focusing on it. In other words, the outcome of P/L is not important. The element that is critically important is your process; that is, the flawless execution and…
Overnight Markets and News Jun E-mini S&Ps (ESM18 +0.07%) this morning are up +0.07% as T-note yields stabilize. Concern the Fed would speed up the pace of its interest rate increases sent stocks prices reeling Tuesday and pushed the 10-year T-note yield up to a 6-3/4 year high of 3.09%. European stocks are down -0.13%…
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield edged up to 3.08% on Tuesday (May 15), marking a new seven-year high, based on daily data published by Treasury.gov. The implied inflation forecast via Treasuries continued to advance as well, signaling that the market is pricing in firmer pricing pressure in the months ahead. Notably, the yield spread between…
Every New York stock exchange trading day I’m posting a daily dividend stock or fund review. I’ll share the three chief qualities of just one equity or fund that could be selected for a dividend stock portfolio I’ve named the Safari to Sweet Success. This week the portfolio I’m building (my Safari To Sweet Success…
After opening the day in the red share markets in India witnessed choppy trading activity and ended the day well below the dotted line. Sectoral indices too ended the day mixed, with stocks in the realty sector and stocks in the FMCG sector leading the gains, while stocks in the oil and gas sector lost the most. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood…
