Year: 2018

Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) announced that the company is shuttering the doors of at least 40 more stores in the coming months. The retail chain announced that it will be closing 40 Sears and Kmart stores in July and August, according to a Business Insider report from May 19. The company has yet to comment on the matter, which includes 31 Sears locations and nine Kmart stores that will be closing in 24 states. …read more […]

Apple recently cut the price of the USB-C to Lightning cable from $25 to $19.This is the cord you need if you want to plug the latest iPhone directly into the latest MacBook without a dongle. It’s also the cord that unlocks a fast-charging option that can refill 50% of an iPhone 8 battery in 30 minutes. …read more […]

Former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon condemned a weekend truce in the U.S. trade dispute with China as a capitulation, signaling dissatisfaction among the president’s allies. Bannon targeted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker, for his role in the trade talks. President Donald Trump “changed the dynamic regarding China but in one weekend Secretary Mnuchin has given it away,” Bannon said in an interview. …read more […]

The 44th President and First Lady are getting into the entertainment business. …read more […]

Noah Holdings (NYSE: NOAH) is a $4 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a 148.16% total return. That’s above the S&P 500’s return of 16.43%.

Noah Holdings stock is beating the market, and it reports earnings soon. But does that make it a good buy today? To answer this question we’ve turned to the Investment U Stock Grader. Our research team built this system to diagnose the financial health of a company.

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✓ Earnings-per-Share (EPS) Growth: Noah Holdings reported a recent EPS growth rate of 77.77%. That’s above the …read more […]

A “pillar of the community” who was suffering from severe mental illness left a meal with his family, got into his sport utility vehicle and then drove at high speed into the restaurant, killing his daughter and daughter-in-law and critically injuring other relatives, his pastor said Monday. “Not in a million years could anybody who knows Roger Self ever imagine he would do this,” said the Rev. Austin Rammell of Venture Church in Dallas, North Carolina, a close friend of the family. “It’s very possible that in his mind, he was thinking the best thing for this family …read more […]

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25 million employees. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling with the court’s conservatives in the majority, endorsed the legality of the growing practice by companies to compel workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving their right to bring class-action claims on various disputes, primarily over wages and hours. The ruling could apply more broadly to discrimination claims but the court did not …read more […]

Which tobacco player should investors like more right now? …read more […]

Editor’s Note: Our Chief Investment Strategist Alexander Green is out of commission today, adrift with spotty Wi-Fi somewhere in the Mediterranean between Rome and Marseille on The Oxford Club’s Chairman’s Circle Wealth Cruise.

And truth be told, we’re kind of glad he’s gone…

Only because his change of venue is the perfect excuse to tell you about another exciting change of scenery… one coming to your free Investment U subscription.

Don’t worry. Alex and ETF Strategist Nicholas Vardy will still be delivering their time-tested expertise on everything and anything concerning the markets, including their core investment philosophies, unconventional insights, unique opportunities… and beyond.

While …read more […]