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(Bloomberg) — Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The U.S. and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade accord Friday that President Donald Trump said he and his counterpart Xi Jinping could sign as soon as next month.As part of the deal, China would significantly step up purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities, agree to certain intellectual-property measures and concessions related to financial services and currency, Trump said Friday at the White House. In exchange, the U.S. will delay a tariff increase due next week as the …read more […]

Smart Speculation is what we’re all about in The War Room. It also distinguishes my trading style from Bryan’s.
Bryan is – without a doubt – the master of short-term technical trading.
My focus is on longer-term plays (with some nice short-term ones for good measure) that rely heavily on fundamentals.
We closed out a huge winner in The War Room today when our “free ride” on Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE: RBS) hit a large profit for the second time in about a month.
A few weeks ago, we closed out part of the strangle when the price of the call options exceeded …read more […]

The post It’s 5:00 – Do You Know Where Your Retirement Stands? appeared first on Investment U. …read more […]

Facebook’s efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered several setbacks on Friday as EBay Inc, Stripe Inc, and Mastercard all announced they were leaving the Libra Association, a group of companies aiding Facebook’s efforts to establish the project. The companies join Paypal Holdings Inc which exited the group just a week ago. …read more […]

The mayor of Cloverdale California says plenty of people blame troubled utility PG&E for recent blackouts but they should blame the California Public Utilities Commission. …read more […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved Eli Lilly and Co’s migraine drug, Reyvow. The drug has been approved to treat acute migraine with or without aura, a sensory phenomenon or visual disturbance, in adults. Lilly acquired Reyvow, formerly called lasmiditan, in a deal https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colucid-pharms-m-a-eli-lilly-idUSKBN1521O6 worth about $960 million when it bought CoLucid Pharmaceuticals Inc in early 2017. …read more […]

Boeing is under fire yet again after a new report from a panel of international air safety regulators will reportedly criticize the FAA’s review of Boeing’s 737 max jet. The report also faults Boeing for not improving the airplane’s design. CFRA’s Jim Corridore joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss. …read more […]

The underlying signs that may have signaled Apple’s stock would climb. …read more […]

There are several ways to beat the market, and investing in small cap stocks has historically been one of them. We like to improve the odds of beating the market further by examining what famous hedge fund operators such as Jeff Ubben, George Soros and Carl Icahn think. Those hedge fund operators make billions of […] …read more […]

We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. The flip side of that is… …read more […]

We at Insider Monkey have gone over 730 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of June 28th. In this article, we look at what those funds think of HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ) based on that data. […] …read more […]

Bloomberg is reporting that the U.S. and China have reached a partial trade deal. Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman, Jessica Smith and Julia La Roche break it down with CapitalistBook.com author Nathan Latka. …read more […]

Equity crowdfunding is still a very young industry in the U.S. It’s been live to the general public only since May 2016.
That’s when “Regulation Crowdfunding” (Reg CF) went into effect. For the first time, all investors had the chance to invest in private startup companies. Prior to this, only accredited investors were able to invest in these types of deals (with a few exceptions). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) currently defines an accredited investor as someone who has made more than $200,000 per year for the last two years ($300,000 as a couple) or has a net worth of …read more […]

It’s not a secret that every investor will make bad investments, from time to time. But it should be a priority to… …read more […]

Health care should get more efficient, but new advances will keep costs frustratingly high. …read more […]