President Trump’s tweet accusing his predecessor of wiretapping him during the campaign — followed by Barack Obama’s denial — has created a highly sensitive subject for many people. With this type of allegation flying around, investors must be pragmatic and review the hard data without a political lens. This is
Donald Trump is starting his first full week as U.S. president. Bearish investors have been out in full force, proclaiming, with high confidence, that it’s time to sell stocks. At the same time, bullish gurus are saying just the opposite. So who’s right? Let’s explore the answer. First, we need
Donald Trump knocked yet another industry in his press conference Wednesday, but this time it wasn’t manufacturers or car makers. It was health care. And shares of U.S. pharmaceutical companies promptly fell, dropping by an average range of about 3% to 5%. “We’ve got to get our drug industry back,”
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I can safely say that, from my 35 years in the financial markets, to be consistently successful at investing, one must put prudence over popularity. Human nature as it is, investors often find it difficult to take unpopular actions. My motivation in writing this column is to nudge you
Democrats will fight tooth and nail to save Obamacare, but given the flaws in the plan, they are not likely to succeed. Obamacare in its current form is the walking dead. Trump has said that he will replace Obamacare with something better. In his speeches, Trump outlined certain key points
It is official: India is siding with poor cancer patients over profits for multinational drug giants. The Supreme Court of India has rejected a plea by Swiss pharma giant Novartis that ends the seven-year legal battle to restrict Indian companies from copying blood cancer drug Glivec. Novartis had filed a plea with the Supreme
Obama has been re-elected; “Obamacare” is the law of the land. It doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree with Obamacare, you might as well generate big profits from it. Obamacare has been profitable for us. We bought Amerigroup Corp. AGP at $22.05, and, as of this writing, the stock
A popular axiom among long-only investors is to “buy low sell high.” For those investors who are equally interested in making money from both markets going up and markets going down, the parallel axiom is, “short-sell high and buy-to-cover low.” In the short-term, the stock market is overbought, and it
In 1971, a Japanese biochemist, Akira Endo, started work on what turned out to be the next big thing in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes, known as statins. In 1978, Merck (MRK) isolated lovastatin from fungusAspergillus terreus. Lovastatin is naturally contained in red yeast rice, a traditional Chinese fermented rice