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(Bloomberg) — In a decade of extreme wealth creation in markets, few assets did more to enrich investors than stocks in the Nasdaq 100 Index. Their combined value jumped by more than $7 trillion, ending with the best year since the bull run began.Powered by a near-doubling in Apple Inc. and gains exceeding 50% in Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc., the tech-heavy gauge surged 38% over the past 12 months, the biggest increase since 2009.Technology companies needed 15 years to recover from the dot-com crash, coming full circle in 2015. Since then, they’ve doubled again. But for all the rampant …read more […]

Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc , GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Sanofi SA are planning to hike prices on more than 200 drugs in the United States on Wednesday, according to drugmakers and data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. Nearly all of the price increases will be below 10%, and around half of them are in the range of 4 to 6%, 3 Axis co-founder Eric Pachman said. More price increases are expected to be announced later this week, which could affect the median and range. …read more […]

According to a report from the Global Times, Tesla is hitting its early production target in China. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley joins Seana Smith on The Ticker to discuss. …read more […]

Baird names Amazon and Zynga stocks as its top internet picks. Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani joins Seana Smith on The Ticker to discuss. …read more […]

California’s new data privacy law will change the internet for consumers across the country. …read more […]

Is First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMBI) a good dividend stock? How can we tell? Dividend paying companies with… …read more […]

One of the best investments we can make is in our own knowledge and skill set. With that in mind, this article will… …read more […]

Pot stocks are on fire today …read more […]

The clock is ticking down on 2019, and you know what that means: It’s time for Wall Street analysts to tempt fate, clamber out on limbs, and make predictions about what will happen in 2020.Unable to overcome the temptation, Rosenblatt internet analyst Mark Zgutowicz joined the parade of prognosticators, with a few predictions about Facebook, Spotify, and Shopify, too. Here’s what he had to say:Facebook (FB)2019 saw presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (and even Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes) publicly call for breaking up Facebook to reduce its monopoly power in social networking — but Zgutowicz doesn’t think it …read more […]

Rick Calder has been the CEO of GTT Communications, Inc. (NYSE:GTT) since 2007. First, this article will compare CEO… …read more […]

It’s hard to believe there are only a handful of hours left in 2019.
And what a year it’s been!
Over the past several weeks, my focus has been on helping investors position themselves for the biggest possible gains in 2020.
And we’re seeing this pay off.
In mid-November, I wrote about 10 small caps expected to see revenue grow at least 100% in 2020. Even though Sage Therapeutics (Nasdaq: SAGE) has buckled and Tellurian (Nasdaq: TELL) has slipped since then, the rest have gained…

In fact, GSX Techedu (NYSE: GSX) has broken out, surging 50% and setting new 52-week highs!
But those aren’t the only …read more […]

2019 has been a disastrous year for Venezuela and the PDVSA, but in the last couple of months, the Maduro regime has managed to reverse the ongoing decline in oil production …read more […]

It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. On the other hand, we’d be… …read more […]

When you buy shares in a company, it’s worth keeping in mind the possibility that it could fail, and you could lose… …read more […]

In this article we are going to estimate the intrinsic value of Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROKU) by taking the expected future… …read more […]