Trading Ideas

Understanding how Medicare works is a crucial step on the road to a secure retirement. Yet most older adults fall short in this regard. …read more […]

AbbVie and Celgene are pharma’s two biggest losers in terms of clinical development this year. But that doesn’t mean investors should shy away from these two names. …read more […]

KKR & Co (KKR.N) transforms into a corporation on Sunday, a change that should help the U.S. private equity firm tap a new pool of investors for its stock. What remains to be seen is if, given the new option, active fund managers will want to buy what KKR is selling. The change by KKR, which made its name through leveraged buyouts in Corporate America in the 1980s, to so-called C-Corp from a publicly traded partnership (PTP) will mean a bigger tax bill. …read more […]

Which stock wins in a battle between a big biotech and a big pharma company? …read more […]

The Latest on nationwide protests over a Trump administration immigration policy (all times local): 9:35 p.m. Police in Portland, Oregon, have ordered participants in a march by Patriot Prayer to disperse … …read more […]

The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief ethics official says he is pushing for a series of independent investigations into Scott Pruitt’s actions as administrator of the federal agency. In a letter to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, EPA ethics official Kevin Minoli writes that “potential issues” regarding Pruitt have surfaced through sources within the EPA and media reports since April. Minoli writes that he has referred “a number” of those matters to the EPA’s inspector general. …read more […]

The stock is up 30% in the past year through late June, but its next leg higher may be right around the corner. …read more […]

Starbucks just raised its payout to shareholders. Here’s why the market didn’t like the news. …read more […]

This weekend’s Barron’s cover story shows how investors can prepare for the bull market’s end. Other featured articles include ways to play a debt crunch and the electric car revolution. Also, growth stocks … …read more […]

Drake is back to breaking streaming music records, although this time he’s …read more […]

With U.S. regulatory approval in the bag, is it just a matter of time before the Disney-Fox deal is completed? …read more […]

Investors should look beyond Tesla’s weekly production rate for its Model 3. …read more […]

Southwest Airlines will increase its flight schedule at Love Field by 15 daily departures next January: just a month before it goes to court to settle its gate dispute with Delta Air Lines once and for all. …read more […]

This week the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to a CBD drug for epilepsy. …read more […]

WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had agreed to his request to increase oil production “maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels,” an extraordinary amount not confirmed by the kingdom and which would push the OPEC leader to a level of production never tested before. In an early morning tweet, Trump said Saudi Arabia’s expanded production would help offset a decline in supply from Iran, after the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May and moved to reimpose oil sanctions. …read more […]