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The Cannabis MSOs Offering Growth at Value Prices

We’ve been dealing with a bifurcated market for most of 2020.
Value stocks have been the babies tossed out with the bathwater. Meanwhile, growth stocks have flourished.
The Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSE: VUG) has left the Vanguard Value ETF (NYSE: VTV) by the side of the road.
We are seeing bifurcation not only at the broadest level but also at the sector-specific level. And the divergence for one industry is about to get a lot wider. The great thing about this is that it offers both value and growth.
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Last week, the Canadian cannabis sector was pushed lower.
It’s already been …read more […]

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears safe, shows signs of working in older adults -study

Results from an early safety study of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine candidate in older adults showed that it produced virus-neutralizing antibodies at levels similar to those seen in younger adults, with side effects roughly on par with high-dose flu shots, researchers said on Tuesday. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, offers a more complete picture of the vaccine’s safety in older adults, a group at increased risk of severe complications from COVID-19. The findings are reassuring because immunity tends to weaken with age, Dr. Evan Anderson, one of the study’s lead researchers from Emory University in …read more […]

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Elon Musk Promises to Make His Own Lithium; This Analyst Is Unimpressed

Put one “Battery Day” in the books, folks. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, CEO Elon Musk finally held his long-awaited presentation running down everything Tesla (TSLA) plans to do over the next decade to cut the cost of batteries, and extend the range (and lower the price) of Tesla’s electric cars.One of the key revelations: In an effort to accelerate the conversion of 300 million American cars from gasoline engines to electric, Tesla is pioneering a method of using “table salt (sodium chloride) to basically extract the lithium” … from 10,000 acres of Nevadan clay, ensuring plentiful supply of the metal …read more […]

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Don’t Go Bargain Hunting on Inovio (INO) Stock Quite Yet, Says 5-Star Analyst

The first rule that applies to healthcare developers is: “do not mess with the FDA.” Case in point: Shares of vaccine maker Inovio (INO) crashed by 33% over the past two trading sessions, as a result of the FDA halting the planned Phase 2/3 clinical trial of its DNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate INO-4800.The study has been put on hold, with the FDA citing the need for more questions regarding the trial. Inovio stated it will address the questions in October, following which, the FDA has 30 days to decide whether the trial can go ahead.Inovio’s shares have been subject to …read more […]

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Lonza confident of 2020 target for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine supply

Lonza is confident that U.S. and Swiss plants it is building to help make Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate will be ready for commercial production this year, executives at the Swiss company said on Tuesday. New production lines at Lonza’s site in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, aim to start making vaccine ingredients in November, while three lines in Visp, deep in a valley in the Swiss Alps – to supply 300 million vaccine doses annually – should begin delivering by December. …read more […]

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Last Minute Thought: Buy or Sell Micron Before Earnings?

Despite the recent volatility, many names in the semiconductor sector have mounted outsized gains since the historic March lows. But not memory giant Micron (MU). Weighed down by macro elements which have resulted in a lack of demand and the loss of a major source of revenue due to the ban on Huawei, MU shares are still in the red for 2020. Micron will have an opportunity to reverse course when the company releases F4Q earnings after the market closes today. The company has already pointed out what to look out for in a recent business update. Most concerning for …read more […]

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Fire in California Wine Country Forces Evacuation of Entire Town

(Bloomberg) — A wildfire that jumped across California’s famed Napa Valley forced the evacuation of an entire wine country resort town and threatened thousands of homes in a region devastated by blazes just three years ago.The Glass Fire north of San Francisco reached more than 42,500 acres as of Tuesday morning, nearly quadrupling in size over 24 hours, and is 0% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. A second fire that erupted in Shasta County has killed at least three people.The blazes broke out after a weekend of hot weather with dry …read more […]

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The Other Tech Boom

It’s been a good pandemic for the U.S. tech giants.
The Nasdaq, which is dominated by the tech leaders, has surged 27.7% since the start of the year.
Conventional wisdom has it that U.S. tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft will continue to dominate the internet.
And for most of the internet world, this is true.

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Yet there’s a whole other internet boom out there.
Its size easily rivals that of the U.S.-based one…
But you hear few investors talking about it.
It’s the internet boom taking place in the second-largest economy in the world: China.
Luckily, thanks …read more […]