Articles by admin

Yahoo Finance’s Jennifer Rogers and Myles Udland recap the day’s market action. …read more […]

The dollar slid and global equity markets fell on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks over the weekend dashed investor optimism that Washington and Beijing would soon reach a deal to end their debilitating trade war. Moody’s warning on Britain’s sovereign debt weighed on shares in London, while escalating violence in Hong Kong led Asian equities to their biggest daily decline since August, boosting demand for the safe-haven yen and Swiss franc. Trump said on Saturday that the U.S.-Sino trade talks were moving along “very nicely” but more slowly than he would have liked. …read more […]

Would you like to invest – or perhaps even trade – a company that benefits from increased market volatility?
If so, then you’ll be very interested in today’s Trade of the Day on Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE).
Intercontinental Exchange operates regulated exchanges for commodity, financial, fixed-income, and equity markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Asia, Israel and Canada.
Its marketplaces for trading and clearing cover a vast array of asset classes, including energy and agricultural commodities, metals, interest rates, equities, credit derivatives, exchange-traded funds, bonds, and currencies.
In other words, the more people who trade, the better Intercontinental Exchange …read more […]

The mergers and acquisitions, M&A, space is a vital part of the capital markets, allowing companies with the proper resources to skip years or decades of building up a business, brand or product line for the right price. The reason GoPro looks primed for acquisition was highlighted recently when Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) quietly snapped up Fitbit (FIT), another wearable tech company, for just over $2 billion. Both companies are formerly high-flying tech stocks with widespread consumer brand recognition in a space all the biggest Silicon Valley firms want to dominate, if possible. …read more […]

We’ve been writing about cannabis a lot lately here at Early Investing. And not just because we feel strongly that it’s going to be an insanely profitable industry for investors. (Though it definitely will.)
It’s also because we believe it has the power to improve – and save – millions of lives.
We have some personal experience with the trauma that prescription painkillers can bring. We’ve also heard stories from people with serious health problems who have suffered from opioid use but benefited immensely from medical marijuana. And we feel strongly that cannabis is a safer and more effective alternative to these …read more […]

Former top student loan official A. Wayne Johnson says that the student loan crisis is an “abomination that’s in plain sight.” …read more […]