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This weekend’s Barron’s cover story offers 12 stocks to buy amid the coronavirus sell-off. Other featured articles focus on bonds and on gold as investments — and the safest safe havens.Also, the prospects for semiconductor and pharmaceutical stocks, a real estate investment trust and more.Cover story “12 Stocks to Buy Amid the Coronavirus Selloff” by Andrew Bary shares why high-yielding stocks like Altria Group Inc (NYSE: MO) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) can be an attractive option for investors now if they have strong balance sheets.Randall W. Forsyth’s “Bonds Still Offer Value, Even With Treasury Yields Below 1%” suggests that, …read more […]

Two Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) analysts came away confident about the semiconductor company’s fundamentals following its financial analyst day Thursday. The AMD Analysts Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Ross Seymore maintained a Hold rating on AMD shares and increased the price target from $42 to $50.Credit Suisse analyst John Pitzer maintained a Neutral rating and $33 price target.Deutsche Bank: AMD’s Roadmap, Financial Goals Impressive AMD’s first analyst meeting in three years conveyed a very confident growth plan focusing on market share gains across each of its CPU/GPU-enabled markets, Deutsche Bank analyst Seymore …read more […]

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included coronavirus picks and a homebuilder.Bearish calls included a top bank, a top retailer and a cannabis stock.In another volatile week in the markets, the Dow Jones industrials managed to end marginally higher, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed essentially flat. The headlines were dominated by the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, but the week also saw the Treasury bond yield fall to record lows and a surprise rate cut from the Federal Reserve.A venerated former CEO passed away and another top chief …read more […]

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(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia kick started an all-in oil price war on Saturday, slashing the official selling prices for its flagship crude Arab Light by the most in 20 years, in an effort to push as many barrels into the market as possible.The cut by Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company, came after the collapse of the OPEC+ talks a day earlier, ending the cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Russia that has underpinned oil prices since 2016.The state producer lowered April pricing for crude oil sales to Asia by $4-$6 a barrel to Asia and to the U.S. by $7 …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — At 10:16 a.m. on a wet and dreary Friday morning, Russia’s energy minister walked into OPEC’s headquarters in central Vienna knowing his boss was ready to turn the global oil market upside down.Alexander Novak told his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman that Russia was unwilling to cut oil production further. The Kremlin had decided that propping up prices as the coronavirus ravaged energy demand would be a gift to the U.S. shale industry. The frackers had added millions of barrels of oil to the global market while Russian companies kept wells idle. Now it was time …read more […]

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s opinion was unsealed on Friday. On Feb. 13, she issued an order blocking work on the contract pending resolution of Amazon’s court challenge. Amazon contends the contract was awarded to its rival because of improper influence by President Donald Trump. …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. We estimate that COVID-19 will kill around 5 million people worldwide and there is a 3.3% probability that Donald Trump will die from the new coronavirus (read the details). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a […] …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. We estimate that COVID-19 will kill around 5 million people worldwide and there is a 3.3% probability that Donald Trump will die from the new coronavirus (read the details). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a […] …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. We estimate that COVID-19 will kill around 5 million people worldwide and there is a 3.3% probability that Donald Trump will die from the new coronavirus (read the details). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a […] …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. We estimate that COVID-19 will kill around 5 million people worldwide and there is a 3.3% probability that Donald Trump will die from the new coronavirus (read the details). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a […] …read more […]

The stock market’s algorithms are creating a ‘vicious cycle’, says one NYSE trader. …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. We estimate that COVID-19 will kill around 5 million people worldwide and there is a 3.3% probability that Donald Trump will die from the new coronavirus (read the details). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a […] …read more […]