Tag: Coronavirus
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2 million new investors are buying stocks on their cellphones
Stuck at home, but armed with online trading apps, individual investors helped drive the historic comeback for stocks
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Oil prices take a dive, and Equity Guru tells you what it all means
As if 2020 has not been weird and unusual already, today the world experienced another unprecedented wacky event: negative oil prices. If anyone reading this is about to rush to the nearest gas station to get paid to fill up their tank, think again. I already tried that and it didn’t work. A more in-depth…
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![5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now]()
5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now
On a March 18, 2020 call to NYC media, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is experiencing “big surges” in usage. Voice and video-calls on WhatsApp (owned by FB) and Facebook Messenger are 200% higher than normal.
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![How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)]()
How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)
“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this. I may not be successful, but we’re working on it.”
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NMC Health (NMHLY.OTC) gets sued – stock surges 90% anyway
Last week, NMC admitted that it identified an additional $2.7 billion in debt, rounding the total debt to around $5 billion. NMC staff were not paid last month.
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![Market Meltdown: gold & housing: “It’s not the pins – it’s the bubble”.]()
Market Meltdown: gold & housing: “It’s not the pins – it’s the bubble”.
“It’s the financials that are really getting killed,” stated Schiff, “They have made all the loans that are not going to get repaid, so this is just like 2008, only it’s not just the banks that are going to need a bailout, it’s the hotels, it’s the airlines, it’s companies like Boeing, it’s the cruise…
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DJIA plummets: divorce lawyers shudder as poor sexless couples grope each other in the night
“The National Marriage Project dubbed the drop in divorce ‘a silver lining’ to the Great Recession,” stated The L.A. Times, “arguing that tough times were pulling many husbands and wives closer together.”
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![Did Aytu BioScience (AYTU.Q) just SpankChain the NASDAQ?]()
Did Aytu BioScience (AYTU.Q) just SpankChain the NASDAQ?
When a sector gets hot, small cap stocks can often get a bump by sidling up to the hot sector with a new product/idea/opportunity. When the dust clears, the intrinsic value of the new offering is typically deemed to be low. We saw it in 3D-printing, with Dung Beetle Treats. We saw it in weed…
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![CloudMD (DOC.C): Perhaps this might be a good time to talk about investing in telemedicine]()
CloudMD (DOC.C): Perhaps this might be a good time to talk about investing in telemedicine
As happens whenever a global crisis hits, there are plenty of investors currently watching the global Coronavirus outbreak and looking to panic sell. There are also a few looking to capitalize on the opportunities found in potential doom. Like folks who buy gun stocks whenever a military conflict breaks out, or those who buy gold…
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![Gold Junior ETF (GDXJ.NYSE): gold offered “Hero Role” in re-make of “Apocalypse Now” – accepts gig on Hollywood Squares instead]()
Gold Junior ETF (GDXJ.NYSE): gold offered “Hero Role” in re-make of “Apocalypse Now” – accepts gig on Hollywood Squares instead
Analysts have tied the retreat by gold in part to positioning, noting that data had shown extremely high net long speculative positions in gold futures. Still, the degree of the pullback in light of the continued selloff in equities was widely described as a surprise.
