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Tobacco Regulation Is Now More Fully In The Hands Of The FDA
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 12:54pm | 759Read More...After a long wait, the Food and Drug Administration finally has control over the regulation of products like e-cigarettes, hookahs, and cigars. A 2016 District Court ruling stated that companies first marketing deemed tobacco products after February 2007 were required to submit a Pre Market Tobacco...
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Twitter Incurs Republicans' Wrath
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 11:59am | 958Read More...Twitter Inc's (NYSE: TWTR) founders accidentally created an addictive platform that now has more than 150 million daily users. No competitor threatens Twitter's niche of breaking news and pithy commentary. The only foreseeable threat for years has been government intervention, and Twitter...
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Fund Managers Believe The Recession Is Over Already
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 10:18am | 836Read More...The world's hedge fund managers believe the recession is over (despite Moody's warning about a potential double dip recession) and that it's time to reduce cash and pause the cyclical rotation, according to Bank of America's October Global Fund Manager Survey. They also believe...
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Big Trouble In Little Hollywood: Buy Streaming Stocks As China Ruins The Movies
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 12:44pm | 2480Read More...The following originally appeared on CapitalWatch The above is just a working title. I was also thinking “Red Fawn: How Hollywood Sold Its Soul to China.” Or what about “Big Like Xi”? Or the equally self-serving: “Watch Obamaland Free on Prime as You Buy...
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Trump's Endorsement A Double-Edged Sword For Regeneron
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 6:53am | 673Read More...The Lincoln Project turned President Trump's endorsement of Regeneron's experimental COVID-19 treatment into an '80s-style infomercial (screen capture via their tweeted video). In what may have been a first for a biotech company, a sitting President made a video endorsing...
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Peloton Goes Parabolic
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 6:53am | 655Read More...Peloton Keeps Pedaling. Last month, we noted that Peloton Interactive Inc (NASDAQ: PTON) has been one of the big winners of the COVID-19 economy and looked at ways to hedge it. Since then, Peloton shares have continued their parabolic move. Here we elaborate on that. We also note why our system is...
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Brick And Mortar Beware: The Shift To E-commerce Might Be Permanent
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 5:33pm | 119947Read More...It’s no surprise that a pandemic would change the way consumers engage with retail. In the depths of the COVID-19 crisis, consumers embraced online shopping experiences over brick and mortar stores. In many cases, this is because stores weren’t open, lockdowns were in place, or...
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The Impact Of COVID-19 On Commercial Property Lending
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 4:55pm | 980Read More...Never in the last 150 years of American history have commercial properties in the United States been closed for as long as they have now. Once the stay-at-home orders began to take hold in March, the demand for real estate and hotels began to subside drastically, and in some cases, more than...
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Engaging Consumers On Financial Wellness With Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 3:05pm | 66801Read More...Most people haven’t studied finance or taken a course in personal financial management. They may have a basic understanding of the financial products they need to conduct daily life and, possibly, to save for the future. But unless they’re wealthy, it’s likely they haven’t...
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How To Hedge Your Portfolio For The Election
Sunday, October 4, 2020 - 1:33pm | 719Read More...President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after being diagnosed with COVID-19 (photo via Fox 5 New York). Military DEFCON 5, Market DEFCON 3 After President Trump announced on Thursday that he and the First Lady were being tested for COVID-19,...
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Selling Deep OTM Weekly Cash-Secured Puts To Generate Substantial Annualized Returns
Saturday, October 3, 2020 - 4:51pm | 12507Read More...Selling Cash-Secured Puts is a strategy similar to, but not precisely the same as, covered call writing. It is generally used to generate cash-flow as a standalone strategy but also can be implemented to buy a stock at a discount or used in conjunction with covered call writing (PCP strategy). This...
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Why I'm Buying Cruise Stocks And Luckin Coffee
Saturday, October 3, 2020 - 2:02pm | 1244Read More...The following is excerpted from an article that originally appeared on CapitalWatch Most of us know the story of Luckin Coffee (Pink: LKNCY). In a nutshell, the company was supposed to be the "Starbucks of China" giving the American coffee giant a run for its money on the...
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Amazon Counts Over 19,000 Employees Infected By COVID-19
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 12:07pm | 268Read More...After being pressed by labor groups, regulators, and even politicians, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has finally disclosed the number of its workers infected by Covid-19. Amazon disclosed that more than 19,000 of its workers have contacted the virus in the period between March 1 and September 19. ...
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6 Bond Replacements To Consider For Your Portfolio
Monday, September 14, 2020 - 1:22pm | 796Read More...The next decade is very likely to be disappointing for a traditional 60/40 portfolio—in particular the “40” component. Almost all types of high quality/low-risk bonds are now yielding between 0.1-2.0%. If you buy and hold these bonds until maturity (assuming no defaults) you are...
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Student Loan Payments Are Down Significantly In 2020, And That Could Be The Death Knell For For-Profit Colleges
Monday, September 14, 2020 - 1:07pm | 829Read More...That’s what Steve Gunderson told education website Inside Higher Ed about the proprietary of the for-profit colleges he represents as President and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities. Many of those schools are owned by public companies. The for-profit colleges worry about...
